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Card writing tips, message ideas, and occasion guides

New Baby Card Messages for People Who Hate "Bundle of Joy"

What to write in a new baby card: 46 messages for new moms, dads, best friends, and baby showers that skip the bundle-of-joy clichés.

40 anniversary card messages for your spouse, partner, parents, and friends — sweet, funny, and short ones you can copy and make your own.

Wedding card messages for the couple, your best friend, a second marriage, and a couple you barely know. Skip the cliché.

Specific thank you card messages for gifts, favors, hosts, teachers, and mentors that prove you actually remember what they did.

Sick people don't want a pep talk. They want acknowledgment. How to write a get well card that doesn't pretend the situation is fine.

Skip "wishing you a lifetime of love." Specific, honest, sometimes funny wedding card messages for friends, family, and couples you barely know.

Honest Father's Day card messages for dads, stepdads, grandpas, and new fathers. Write something he'll actually keep.

Specific, funny, and heartfelt birthday card messages for friends, parents, partners, and coworkers — and how to write your own.

Paper cards get recycled. Digital cards live on phones forever. A breakdown of when each format wins.

Real messages for high school and college grads. No "the world is your oyster." Specific, funny, and honest.

It's 10 PM and you forgot. Here's how to pick, write, and send a digital card before midnight.

Specific, honest messages for moms, stepmoms, grandmas, and mother figures — the kind she hasn't already read on a mug.