Occasions

If enough people
would sign a card.

The kit works the same way every time. What changes is who you are asking and what you nudge them to write about.

A card gets passed round the office and comes back with eleven signatures and no stories.

The people with the best stories are usually the ones who left in 2011 and are not on the office chat any more.

Standing in a corridor with a biro and four people waiting behind you is not conditions for saying something true.

A guest book at the back of the room gets four lines and a doodle.

Everybody sends a card in the first fortnight and nobody keeps them.

Graduation gets marked with a gown and a queue.

A big anniversary is the one occasion where the guests have as much material as the couple.

After a funeral, people say they will write it down and almost nobody does.

Thirty families each buying a card is thirty cards in a bin bag by July.

Not sure what to put

We wrote the examples too.

Real lines for leaving cards, retirement, big birthdays and weddings, grouped by how well you know them.

Card ideas