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Meet these stereotype-busting greeting cards that celebrate aging
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“In this longevity economy, there’s a huge market for 50 and over that’s tired of being made fun of.” Meet these stereotype-busting greeting cards that celebrate aging
Meet these stereotype-busting greeting cards that celebrate aging
Jan Golden founded card company Age-Friendly Vibes in 2021 with a line of greeting cards boasting positive commentary on age. There are 55 designs for multiple occasions.“Ageism is a socially acceptable ‘ism’ People dismiss it as even being an issue,” Golden said.
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“But ageism and negative views and commentary on aging gets internalized and really harms the individual.”
“People want to see representation. Snarky cards that make fun of age are still very popular.
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My goal is to provide an alternative to the ‘Damn, you’re old’ cards,” Golden said.Americans purchase about 6.5 billion greeting cards each year, with 90% of households buying cards each year, according to the Greeting Card Association. Annual retail sales of greeting cards are estimated between $7 and $8 billion.
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In the greeting card aisle, you’re bombarded with gallows humor and ageist jokes starting at age 30.viral soundbite that goes: “My Birkin, another Birkin, but what makes these two Birkins different?
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And what small feature about them divides the Hermès collector community?” Followed by his catchphrase: “Let’s talk about it.showed Healey with 56% support and Diehl with 33% support.“What’s Happening in Iran is Not a Local Story”: Meet Filmmaker Mahyad Tousi By October 21, 2022 Photo courtesy of Samuel Campbell At a Tehran birthday party in the early aughts, a woman turned to Mahyad Tousi, then a conflict zone documentarian, and asked him how it felt to have a job contributing to the cesspool of media that exists in the world. But some niche brands are starting to change the conversation about aging, offering menopause cards and age-friendly birthday cards that celebrate – rather than denigrate – growing older. Jan Golden founded card company Age-Friendly Vibes in 2021 with a line of greeting cards boasting positive commentary on age.
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Diehl’s campaign says the GOP former lawmaker will continue to link Healey to what it calls “Biden-like policies. “Ageism is a socially acceptable ‘ism’ People dismiss it as even being an issue,” Golden said.
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Snarky cards that make fun of age are still very popular. My goal is to provide an alternative to the ‘Damn, you’re old’ cards,” Golden said.
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Annual retail sales of greeting cards are estimated between $7 and $8 billion. (Sales of the anti-ageist market aren’t tracked, but the cards are mostly niche brands and represent a small part of the overall card market.” The devil truly is in the details: “The H-shaped zipper-stop is something a lot of people don’t notice but is a signature, or the number of stitches in each handle attachment is precise, depending on the size of the bag, of course.
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He said they show commitment to their communities and rehabilitation.) Most card-buyers are between 35 and 60, which is the age range when consumers know the most people, older and younger, and are in life stages that include buying homes, getting married and having kids, the association said. Em & Friends last year launched a line of menopause-themed cards to talk with humor and honestly about a health issue that can last 10 years and affects half the human population, said Emily McDowell, founder Em & Friends.” Gross’s content extends beyond Hermès pieces to other brands that fall under the “coded, quiet luxury” bracket that he adores.
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Retailers as large as Barnes & Noble have been selling them, as well as smaller card boutiques. The local union and the Massachusetts Teachers Association both face court-ordered $50,000 fines for the strike going into today.
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And then before that I was in Miami and then D. “We’re committed to making cards about the lives we’re really living and the conversations we’re really having,” said McDowell. “Brands like The Row , which I’m completely infatuated with, are nailing this with their incredibly easy, dynamic pieces that are made to last for generations—I’m all about buying quality over quantity, which is what drew me into this whole world in the first place.
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“It’s important to represent the actual human experience.” The collection of four menopause cards, which is being promoted by actress Naomi Watts to coincide with her new menopause wellness brand called Stripes, will help raise money through the end of October for the Alliance for Period Supplies. As part of the new wave of creators focused on informative content, Gross has high hopes for an inclusive future in the fashion industry where editorial and social-media lines are blurred. We’re going to have to wait a little longer for the new Washington Street bridge linking Boston’s North End and Charlestown.
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“The menopause cards grew out of conversations I was having with my friends and I said ‘Let’s make cards and normalize this. Officials say they have good reason for the delay.’” While baby boomers continue to buy the most greeting card units, millennials have spent the most money on greeting cards since 2015, outspending boomers, the association said. Janine Vanderburg, director and chief catalyst of the Changing the Narrative anti-ageism campaign in Colorado, wants to further change the card conversation by commissioning card artists and designers to create age-friendly birthday cards.
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VON OLDERSHAUSEN: That seems to be a pretty common narrative for a lot of people. “There’s awful cards out there that reflect the stereotypes and reinforce the stereotypes.
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We hope to change that, spark the conversation and raise awareness.” Changing the Narrative launched a campaign in 2020 with age-friendly greeting cards sold on its website. Now, it’s seeking 10 greeting card designers to create additional cards that will be sold in stores and online.
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The artists will get $500 and promotional support from Changing the Narrative. I also went back and forth growing up to visit family because I have a lot of family still there. “Having age-friendly cards in the same aisle as all the other cards could help start conversations and show there’s a different way to talk about aging,” Vanderburg said.
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“Society in general is ageist. We’re always talking about fighting aging.
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The stereotype is that we all decline, deteriorate and are technologically-impaired. But there’s different conversations to have.” Golden, who also participated in the Changing the Narrative pilot card project, said the caustic jokes about aging really took off with the launch of Hallmark’s Maxine character in the 1980s. The exaggerated older character took a curmudgeonly dig at aging.
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Sarah Schwartz, editor in chief of Stationery Trends Magazine, said “over the hill” cards have been the norm and that concept wasn’t challenged until recently. I landed in San Francisco and my phone was blowing up with things like, “They’re killing people.
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“Everyone is supposed to take it well and just accept it and no one ever thought about it,” Schwartz said. “Age-Friendly Vibes was the first to really verbalize that this was not such a great thing.” “The conversation is changing. But cultural changes take a while,” Schwartz said.
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“The momentum is building. It didn’t stop for months trying to do that triage work and spreading information.
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There seems to be a real push to redefine age.” “Cards are micro-conversations. With one card, and one person you can evolve your perspective,” Schwartz said. “People are leaning in in times of social upset and while the world might seem terrifying at times, a lot of people collectively evolved.” .
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