Marginalizing Cheesy Shutterfly Cards

Here's one of my wife's attempts at a potential *Christmas card photo*.

She asked them to say "cheese":



After several unusable shots....I had to step in.

I made them instead say "poophead", "fart face", etc.

Notice the difference:



Two other items here:

One, the second shot did indeed become our Christmas card. And the windmill in the background....well, my wife violently insisted on cropping it out. What can I say, SHE'S the household fanatic!

Lastly, I am pissed at Shutterfly. Every year I make remarks about how we have to cut back on how many cards we order and send out; the list gets longer EVERY year. I mean do we really have to send them to our neighbors and local friends? They see our kids all the time! And then there are cards for *our parents' friends*, cards for people who live far away that we haven't been in touch with in YEARS, then those people who send you a card out-of-the-blue to whom you HAVE TO reciprocate.

These things cost $1 each....times 135 ordered....plus 44 cents apiece in postage...equals

$194.40

But get this, freakin' Shutterfly actually sent us a double order of cards!

So everyone Marginal on our list, everyone ripe for cutting....they got a card, again. (And surely husbands far away will be cursing us for making them reciprocate!)

So with the extra cards, we'll be well over $200 for cards - IN THIS ECONOMY!

Not for anything, but I don't think this is the first time Shutterfly has screwed me with an over-delivery. I think it may in fact be a deliberate scam on their part - to set off a spiral of extra card sending.