{"id":517,"date":"2011-02-10T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/02\/how-to-be-an-air-force-wife-2011-style.html"},"modified":"2011-02-10T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T16:33:00","slug":"how-to-be-an-air-force-wife-2011-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/02\/how-to-be-an-air-force-wife-2011-style.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Be An Air Force Wife, 2011 Style…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reason I was inspired to post about that 1957 Air Force wife book<\/a> last week was because I was thinking about getting some “calling cards” of my own.  I’ve done this in the past, it’s great for trading playdate information on the playground.  It’s also much classier than scrawling down your information on the back of a crumbled gas station receipt at the bottom of your purse.  It helps out as a reservist, too, when you can’t access your military phone and e-mail account daily, you can just hand someone a personal card to follow up on a correspondence.<\/p>\n

I learned this idea through a Mom on a playground in Cary, North Carolina back in 2005, but it’s reaped dividends as a military wife…when you have to introduce yourself to a new circle of friends every 2-3 years.<\/p>\n

I had placed an order a couple weeks ago through VistaPrint.com<\/a> for my free** 250 business cards and they arrived on Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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You really thought I’d show the world our address and phone number?  These cards are also great for “We’ve Moved” cards.  That way folks could just put your new address\/phone\/e-mail address in with other business cards.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Since they’re free**, you’ll be shamelessly promoting VistaPrint every time you share one of your cards.  I don’t mind, can’t argue with cheap well-made business cards.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

**The cards are free, but you pay a small shipping fee (~$5).  Plus you have to be prepared to weed through no less than 15 webpages worth of “Would you like to add XX onto your order??” offers.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reason I was inspired to post about that 1957 Air Force wife book last week was because I was thinking about getting some “calling cards” of my own.  I’ve done this in the past, it’s great for trading playdate information on the playground.  It’s also much classier than scrawling down your information on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[625,623,49,50],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-8l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":514,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/02\/how-to-be-an-air-force-wife-1957-style.html","url_meta":{"origin":517,"position":0},"title":"How to Be an Air Force Wife, 1957 Style…","date":"04 February 11","format":false,"excerpt":"(Click on the pictures to see closeups of the text in the pictures).Several years ago I received this book from my father-in-law. \u00a0He got it from a friend who sells antiques. \u00a0Dad thought I'd be intrigued by it, and gave it to me as a tongue-in-cheek gift.I read the book\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"air force\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/TUsleOvOJtI\/AAAAAAABQlg\/-SNEOe2fIX8\/s400\/IMG_6095.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":385,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/08\/what-is-a-military-wife.html","url_meta":{"origin":517,"position":1},"title":"What is a Military Wife?","date":"13 August 09","format":false,"excerpt":"This was sent to me by an Air Force wife who's soon leaving us for (I think) Florida. 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