Prospecting for Save the Date reminders to send to Robespierre's out of town friends six months before his Bar Mitzvah. See Part I here.
We'd need only about a dozen or maybe 17 or, who knows, 20? save the date notices, just for guests we hope will travel to Robey's Bar Mitzvah; everyone else will already be in town. In a rare moment of clarity I recognized that we weren't limited to a plain reminder card; I could send something more imaginative at cost from FeeFiFoto.
First I thought I'd create personalized calendars with photos of Robey on each month and the date of his Bar Mitzvah highlighted. But then I realized that, while calendars are a great gift for aunts, uncles, and grandparents, his friends might not be as impressed with 12 months of Robey as they would be with Sports Illustrated swimsuit models, so the calendars might just languish in desk drawers. Plus, how many photos of a boy in a cap from his favorite baseball team can you include in a calendar before you have to resort to the Puffy Chicken costume?
So much for calendars.
Next I considered greeting cards, which are easy and very inexpensive to produce and mail.
Cards are nice. We keep most of the holiday cards we receive every year so Robey and Cupcake can keep track of how their friends and relatives have changed over the years. But a greeting card just didn't seem to be impressive enough to hold the attention of teenagers, and since we needed only about a dozen we could afford to be a little more avant garde.
Cards -- nope.
What to send? What is it that 13 year old boys might use for years to come, that might not actually embarrass them, that might be cool enough to compel them to cross state lines in Robespierre's honor?
I considered mouse pads but Robey's friends probably have their own mouse pads and might not find it cool to use their friend's Bar Mitzvah invitation to navigate Facebook*.
A mug, perhaps? Mugs are nice. They're portable. Unless they routinely slurp from the garden hose, most people use cups or mugs for their Ovaltine or YooHoo*. And the cost wouldn't be prohibitive, since we don't have to send one to every potential guest, but only to those who are likely to have some kind of conflict coming up and need to plan far ahead. The list couldn't possibly include more than ten people... or a dozen... or, wait a minute, we forgot to add a few friends but no more than 30... and let's not forget the German exchange student and the counselor from Scotland...
At least it's still less than 50. So far.
Egads -- if all these boys come in, what am I going to do with them? It's a safe bet that we won't spend the weekend watching You've Got Mail and doing manicures...
*Spell Check tried to pull off saltiness, Valentine, facetious, Yokohama, and boyhood but strangely, not Yahoo.
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