Lacking the Energy
September 14th 2007 19:50
One of the things we never got round to doing after my mother died was to send out thank you notes to the people who’d sent us cards. I’m sure I should have been more organised about keeping track of the cards - and normally I would have been - but in the circumstances I just couldn’t get up the energy to do anything about it. And to be honest it’s often quite hard to find cards that are reasonably-priced enough to send out to people on such occasions. I know that it can cost a fortune to buy the right sort of cards in any quantities.
We used to have people coming in the shop when I worked there asking for cards for such occasions: they just weren’t available (at least not through the suppliers we had) and we always had to turn people down on this. When I say they weren’t available I’m prevaricating a bit: they were available, but only in packs of six, or ten, and they cost a heap. Which is why we’d stopped stocking those sorts of cards in the first place.
It was the same with engagement announcements or wedding invitations. The sort of thing we could provide was always going to add a large sum to the already heavy budget of the Big Day.
I guess if we’d really put our minds to it we could have come up with a solution that was economical for the customers and profitable for us. But it was rather like getting up the energy to deal with the replies to my mother’s sympathy cards; we just didn’t have enough of it, not for that particular problem anyway.
We used to have people coming in the shop when I worked there asking for cards for such occasions: they just weren’t available (at least not through the suppliers we had) and we always had to turn people down on this. When I say they weren’t available I’m prevaricating a bit: they were available, but only in packs of six, or ten, and they cost a heap. Which is why we’d stopped stocking those sorts of cards in the first place.
It was the same with engagement announcements or wedding invitations. The sort of thing we could provide was always going to add a large sum to the already heavy budget of the Big Day.
I guess if we’d really put our minds to it we could have come up with a solution that was economical for the customers and profitable for us. But it was rather like getting up the energy to deal with the replies to my mother’s sympathy cards; we just didn’t have enough of it, not for that particular problem anyway.
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