#HTE

A Birthday Card That Has Been Re-Gifted 94 Times Between Two Relatives

While they never carried the same punch as, say, a Kevin Hart show, Hallmark cards used to be these things you’d buy to make people giggle. Set-up on the front, pithy punchline inside. Hallmark card number 25KB 915-6 from the year 1970, for instance, said “Happy Birthday to a Good-Looking Relative” on the front, and inside stated “(save this card. You can sent it to ME on my birthday.)”

This particular bit of copy had at least one unexpected consequence: “Over the past 47 years,” writes Redditor LincolnsLostSpeach, “my fiancee’s uncle and his cousin have been passing [this] same card back and forth.”

“[I] should also mention,” s/he continues, “the card only cost $0.25 when it was purchased in 1970.”

Little bit of Scotch tape and it’s good as new.

I like how you can see (where the names are signed) brown ink in use in the early ‘70s, and by the '80s they get into red and green.