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Walmart has 5-pack Father's Day cards, what am I missing?
June 13, 2024, 12:51 PM
OttoSigWalmart has 5-pack Father's Day cards, what am I missing?
5-pack of Father's day cards available
While it's funny at face value, what am I missing or am I correct to shake my head at how absurd this is?
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reflex/deflex 64Let’s you have 5 kids and each one wants their own card to deliver. It’s possible they have different addresses, I mean who knows?
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June 13, 2024, 12:58 PM
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June 13, 2024, 01:00 PM
OttoSigquote:
Originally posted by reflex/deflex 64:
Let’s you have 5 kids and each one wants their own card to deliver. It’s possible they have different addresses, I mean who knows?
Hmmm, I can buy that there are 5 or less kids in the house and mom just buys a 5-pack so each kid can give Dad an individual card, but who's giving Dad 5 of the same card lol.
10 years to retirement! Just waiting! June 13, 2024, 01:08 PM
RogueJSKI wasn't aware that greeting cards expired within the next 1-4 years.
All joking aside, I can imagine a situation where - even without a bunch of "baby daddys" - a woman could have 5 fathers in her life to whom she wants to send a card:
Husband and father of their kids
Her own father
Her father in law
Maternal grandfather
Paternal grandfather
Then if you start throwing in stepfathers, it expands further.
June 13, 2024, 01:11 PM
OttoSigquote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
I wasn't aware that greeting cards expired within the next 1-4 years.
Get out of here lol, you giving him the same card every year? I'm not sure I would notice, but still!
That list makes sense. I was thinking one for each of my step dads I've had.
10 years to retirement! Just waiting! June 13, 2024, 01:15 PM
Patrick-SP2022quote:
Originally posted by OttoSig:
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Originally posted by reflex/deflex 64:
Let’s you have 5 kids and each one wants their own card to deliver. It’s possible they have different addresses, I mean who knows?
Hmmm, I can buy that there are 5 or less kids in the house and mom just buys a 5-pack so each kid can give Dad an individual card, but who's giving Dad 5 of the same card lol.
I knew a woman with three kids. Each kid with a different father.
Five is not much of a stretch.
June 13, 2024, 01:19 PM
trapper189My dad never noticed my mom gave him the same Christmas card three years in a row. Same card, same envelope. Put it on display for a few weeks, back in the envelope, and back in the drawer for next year. We found out when she passed and we were cleaning out the drawers.
June 13, 2024, 01:20 PM
OttoSigquote:
Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022:
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Originally posted by OttoSig:
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Originally posted by reflex/deflex 64:
Let’s you have 5 kids and each one wants their own card to deliver. It’s possible they have different addresses, I mean who knows?
Hmmm, I can buy that there are 5 or less kids in the house and mom just buys a 5-pack so each kid can give Dad an individual card, but who's giving Dad 5 of the same card lol.
I knew a woman with three kids. Each kid with a different father.
Five is not much of a stretch.
Oh I see, yeah not arguing that, but that just means me shaking my head is correct!
10 years to retirement! Just waiting! June 13, 2024, 01:21 PM
OttoSigquote:
Originally posted by trapper189:
My dad never noticed my mom gave him the same Christmas card three years in a row. Same card, same envelope. Put it on display for a few weeks, back in the envelope, and back in the drawer for next year. We found out when she passed and we were cleaning out the drawers.
That's hilarious and wholesome in a way, my wife of course would be madder than hell, but I think its funny.
10 years to retirement! Just waiting! June 13, 2024, 01:22 PM
92fstechI dealt with a guy a few weeks ago at work who felt the need to share (with zero prompting on my part!) that his dad and grandpa were the same person. When you considered the totality of the circumstances, it actually kind of explained a lot. But that situation warrants 2 cards...one for father's day, and another for grandparent's day. I have no answer for the five pack.
June 13, 2024, 01:28 PM
OKCGene^^^ Might could be. ^^^
There are a lot of grandparents nowadays who are having to raise one or more of their grandkids.
It could be that Grandpa and Grandma have had to legally adopt a grandchild/grandchildren.
It sucks, but that's the reality today, for example too many young adults with children get involved with drugs or crime and are dead or incarcerated for a long long time.
June 13, 2024, 01:30 PM
OttoSigquote:
Originally posted by OKCGene:
^^^ Might could be. ^^^
There are a lot of grandparents nowadays who are having to raise one or more of their grandkids.
It could be that Grandpa and Grandma have had to legally adopt a grandchild/grandchildren.
It sucks, but that's the reality today, for example too many young adults with children get involved with drugs or crime and are dead or incarcerated for a long long time.
I've known a few instances where a mom and dad took on their grandchild from a way-too-young daughter and raised the child as a sibling of its actual mother, sometimes not knowing the truth until way later in life.
I've never personally known a man to father a child with his child.
10 years to retirement! Just waiting! June 13, 2024, 01:36 PM
RogueJSKA true Father-Grandfather situation like that is always going to be messy, but I had a few dealings at work with a somewhat more benign (though still kinda trashy) Uncle-Daddy situation.
Story was like this: Teenaged boy starts dating teenaged girl. Then boy's divorced dad and girl's divorced mom hit it off. Right around the time the parents are announcing their engagement, girl comes up pregnant by the boy. Parents proceed with wedding. By the time the baby is born, its father is also its (step)uncle, because the teenaged parents are now stepsiblings.
So no incest involved, but I still bet Family Tree day in school was going to be a bit confusing for that kid.
And yes, there are lots of grandparents who end up raising their grandbabies. Sometimes due to no fault of their own or the parents. But unfortunately, while not always, it often enough just means that they now have a second generation of kids to screw up with their shitty parenting. (E.g. parent is an addict/criminal due in part to a shitty childhood and can't care for the kid, so they end up with the grandparents who are responsible for the mother's shitty childhood to begin with, thus extending the cycle.)
June 13, 2024, 01:48 PM
OttoSigquote:
Originally posted by RogueJSK:
A true Father-Grandfather situation like that is always going to be messy, but I had a few dealings at work with a somewhat more benign (though still kinda trashy) Uncle-Daddy situation.
Story was like this: Teenaged boy starts dating teenaged girl. Then boy's divorced dad and girl's divorced mom hit it off. Right around the time the parents are announcing their engagement, girl comes up pregnant by the boy. Parents proceed with wedding. By the time the baby is born, its father is also its (step)uncle, because the teenaged parents are now stepsiblings.
So no incest involved, but I still bet Family Tree day in school was going to be a bit confusing for that kid.
And yes, there are lots of grandparents who end up raising their grandbabies. Sometimes due to no fault of their own or the parents. But unfortunately, while not always, it often enough just means that they now have a second generation of kids to screw up with their shitty parenting. (E.g. parent is an addict/criminal due in part to a shitty childhood and can't care for the kid, so they end up with the grandparents who are responsible for the mother's shitty childhood to begin with, thus extending the cycle.)
My maternal grandparents ended up being step-siblings in this way.
10 years to retirement! Just waiting! June 13, 2024, 01:53 PM
darthfusterThere could be a traditional father/husband, sons who are fathers, sons in law, grandfathers….. I can see the need for the five pack
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92fstechquote:
Originally posted by OKCGene:
^^^ Might could be. ^^^
There are a lot of grandparents nowadays who are having to raise one or more of their grandkids.
It could be that Grandpa and Grandma have had to legally adopt a grandchild/grandchildren.
It sucks, but that's the reality today, for example too many young adults with children get involved with drugs or crime and are dead or incarcerated for a long long time.
Yeah, that's not what this was. Grandpa made a baby with his daughter.
June 13, 2024, 02:44 PM
GeorgeairI have Valentine and Birthday cards for 2-3 years stored up, so what's your problem with planning and trip efficiency? AND panic-avoidance....
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June 13, 2024, 02:57 PM
LoswsmithI mean, why buy one when you can buy five at five times the price?
Plus, you're missing the clear economies of scale here. Five will cost less to print than one, so instead of paying five times the cost, you are probably paying only 3.5 times the price. What a bargain!!
Last, but most relevant, what dad is actually going to remember what Father's Day card he got last year, right? This makes SO much sense for today's value minded shopper.
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June 13, 2024, 02:59 PM
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