Last week was surgery week for me. Five surgeries, even short outpatient ones, in a row is draining! I feel like a very sore pincushion and look like one, too. Black and blue from stem to stern! After the third day, I got a bit lost. I'm not sure what happened to Thursday and Friday. I just know that now, instead of rest and magazines and pampering and daytime television, patients sit up in recovery, begin walking around, and keep up a schedule of walking every hour. It's evidently a lot better for us than the old way.
If you forgo sedation, you can even drive yourself home, to the pharmacy, etc. after just an hour's wait.
One thing I did notice in my few travels last week (to the grocery and the pharmacy) was that people were shopping like crazy. With stores just reopened this week in New Mexico, the shelves are being picked clean. We don't know if they'll be shut again before Christmas, so everything and anything is being bought. There are only a very few giftcards left, too, out of hundreds and hundreds per store. And for some reason, none of the little free holders are left. There are some rather pricey ones for sale, but that's not thrifty if you're on a budget. I love the fancy holders, but not the cost.
Here are two sheets of do-it-yourself printable holders for gift cards. You could also tuck cash into them.
You can print them out at home or send them electronically to an Office Depot, Walgreens, or Walmart; in most towns they print them right there. Then you can cut out, fold in half, fold the tabs, glue, and the gift card holder is ready once dry. With the fancy dry-line adhesives, you don't even have to wait for them to dry.
The extra little card can be used or just discarded.
Use the LINKS to make sure you get the full-sized file stored "in the Google cloud." Blogger compresses and shrinks files and then they don't print as nicely. Better to use the "cloud" or "drive" and get the best file.
Use THIS LINK <----- for the old-fashioned holders.
Use THIS LINK<-------for the red/blue holders below.
Thank'ee for stopping by.
Kind regards,
Holly, The Merry Olde Dame
I hope that you are feeling better and able to enjoy the holidays.
ReplyDeleteI did not get any gift cards this year
cathy
Oh I wish you could have gotten pampered with magazines and maybe a cup of coffee or tea. Instead you had to walk about then go home. Hopefully you're done now with doctors for a while.
ReplyDeleteVery sweet of you! They are just too cute.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping your surgeries are done and you are on the mend.