Mailing a printed invitation is more courteous and practical than shouting birthday shindig details into friends’ ears or skywriting invites to an intimate dinner party. Proclaim your plans gracefully with today’s Groupon: for $25, you get $50 worth of stationery, greeting cards, and more from Erin Condren, redeemable online.
Helmed by a friendly, dedicated artist, the online emporium of personalized products bursts with a bevy of colorful invitations, stationery, address labels, and more. Employing whimsically unpredictable color combos and customized lettering, the crafty creator fashions distinctive items for a dizzying array of occasions, from informal birthday parties to elegant parrot weddings. Karaoke-inclined hosts can prepare guests for crooned versions of "Old MacDonald" with popstar invitations ($3 each; minimum order of 25). Apple slice note pads make fruit an omnipresent grocery-list item ($30 for four), and the brightly shaded personalized growth chart ($75) plots the progress of your child's or pet goldfish’s vertical climb up to 7 feet. Aspiring card architects can upload their own family photos or poorly scanned tax returns onto a 12-pack of colorful classic photo cards ($38).
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The Groupon Guide to: Flirting
From a handsome giraffe flaunting its long black tongue for a female giraffe—also known as a zebra—to a single-celled eukaryote flexing in a mirror before undergoing asexual binary fission, no species can begin the mating process without taking its first step: the humble flirt. Here are some surefire flirting tips to help you attract the zebra of your species:
• One time-tested technique is to drop a handkerchief and allow a potential suitor to pick it up for you. Since no one uses handkerchiefs anymore, you may substitute a used wad of facial tissue or an iPad preloaded with a haptic-feedback nose-blowing app. Two-word tip: Be coy!
• Gentlemen may be forgiven for shedding another contrivance of flirtations past—laying an overcoat over a puddle for a lady to step across. Space-age polymers have made waterproof overcoats more durable than ever, rendering this gesture meaningless—a modern gentleman instead carries a hollow cane through which he can slurp the puddle into his cheeks, so the damsel may trot across dryly. Two-word tip: Don't spit!
• People are attracted to money and confidence. Impress that bed-headed bank teller you've been crushing on by using him as a human shield during your getaway. Two-word tip: No cops!
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