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My last job gave me a box of business cards that was the size of a brick. 500? 1000? I don't know.

What was I supposed to do with them? We never met with anyone in person because of covid. I cut them into strips and used them to pick my teeth. When I left, the box was still in my desk and I had probably used 25 of them.

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I used to have the opposite problem. supposed to carry around your cards everywhere? instant notecards. bored in a meeting? make a little maquette.

Save them for your kids so you can tell them about the wacky things we did in the olden days.

For me my cards primary use is allowing me not to have to bother to memorize my work phone number.

Either I give the card to someone so they have my number, or I always have a few at hand so I can read my number off to them.

Ha, I also once had a job which just gave me, without being asked, a box of business cards I never even opened. I just assumed that kickbacks from a printing company to a VP somewhere were responsible.

Yeah....I've always had business cards for a long, long, long time ago. Always got 1,000 cards, but I'd work somewhere for 5 years and still have 995 cards left at the end. Meanwhile that huge brick took up valuable disk drawer real estate. Guess I could have thrown all of them but 50 cards away, but most people just don't for whatever reason.

I have a whole box of boxes of 1000 business cards. I never use more than a handful.

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