Card ideas
What to write
when you have run out.
Every guide is real examples, grouped by how well you actually know the person, because that is the bit that changes what you can say.
What to write in a leaving card
Name one specific thing. That is the whole trick. 'Good luck in the new role' is what you write when you cannot think of anything, and everyone can tell.
Read it GuideWhat to write in a retirement card
Retirement cards fail by being about retirement. Write about the forty years, not the golf.
Read it GuideWhat to write in a 60th birthday card
Sixty is old enough that 'congratulations on being old' jokes have been done to them roughly two hundred times. Try a memory instead.
Read it GuideWhat to write in a thank you card
Say what it was and what it did. 'Thank you for the vase' is a receipt. 'Thank you for the vase, it is the only nice thing in the front room' is a thank you.
Read it GuideWhat to write in a new baby card
Write to the parents, not the baby. The baby is not reading it and the parents have not slept.
Read it GuideWhat to write in a wedding card
Write to both of them, not just the one you know. That single move puts you ahead of most of the table.
Read itOr skip the card
Collect from everyone instead.
One link, everyone writes their own without seeing the others, and you get the lot on one page before the day.