Personalized Notes Say It with Consideration

No matter how small the message, personalized notes are great for all occasions, even if there is no occasion.

It is important to personalize notes so that there is no confusion as to who the note is for. While it may seem like a neat idea to make a generic note and pass it around, and have everyone continue to pass it around, so that it may reach the whole entire world, it would probably get dumb and annoying. Everyone would hate whoever started it. So people do not do things like that. Instead, they make notes for each other with the other person’s name spelled out in glitter. This way, everyone knows how special they are because they got their very own note.

Personalized notes can make a birthday morning special and unique. If someone leaves a note on the coffee pot for his or her mother to find when she awakens on her special day, she will think of her child warmly all day long (in addition to her own thoughts), and may not make him or her do the dishes at dinner time. This could be the highlight of someone’s week.

Rewind to kindergarten real quick where the mom is adding personalized notes into the kids’ bagged lunches. The entire lunch itself becomes a metaphor for a personalized note. From the addressee’s name on the front in a black Sharpie’s marker, to the written sweet love scribbled on half of a paper towel, one half of a bologna and mustard sandwich, to four carrot sticks a quarter for milk and some cookies, which obviously translate into some character, discipline, trust and a little bit of fun. Love, Mom.

They would get her back years later with secret mirror and window messages left in the fog I <3 Mom in the car. Had they not written who it was for, she would have had no way of knowing who it was from. This kept her, and many other mothers like her, from losing her mind. So not only is it important to say who the note is for, but it is also equally important to also leave some kind of indication as to who it is from. That is the best way to deliver a message.

With Valentines Day so near, an anonymous note containing a valentine poem hits the heart of the receiver. Secret admirers have been doing this for years.