{"id":3038,"date":"2010-08-30T12:31:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2011-11-25T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T20:43:18","slug":"yougoods-put-a-new-twist-on-old-greeting-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2010\/yougoods-put-a-new-twist-on-old-greeting-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"YouGoods: Put a new twist on old greeting cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPass me the White-Out!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christy Eichers had just realized she had no card for the birthday girl, so she quickly fixed up an old card of her father&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The result was fairly tacky, but she was certain there was a business idea there somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>And regreet was born:<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-medium-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/2010\/yougoods-put-a-new-twist-on-old-greeting-cards\/regreetnasturtium2031_v1-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3039\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/RegreetNasturtium2031_v11-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/RegreetNasturtium2031_v11-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/RegreetNasturtium2031_v11-515x369.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/RegreetNasturtium2031_v11.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>With regreet, you can upcycle your old cards in style, and take away the stigma of passing along a card that&#8217;s been doctored with whiteout or eraser marks. Christy&#8217;s even thought of a way for you to track your card&#8217;s journey, and see just how many times it gets regreeted.<\/p>\n<p>According to Christy and the Encyclopedia of American Industries, the greeting card industry is a $7.5 billion business with 90% of households purchasing cards each year. The typical household purchases 30 cards annually.<\/p>\n<p>So regreet kits, made from earth-friendly materials with a minimum of 30% post-consumer waste and printed with soy inks, can have a huge impact on reducing the amount of paper we waste each year.<\/p>\n<p>Christy is winning a $1,500 cash prize, along with the chance to show off her designs at World Maker Faire NYC and sell the regreet kit at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\">www.uncommongoods.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leave a comment below to congratulate her on her idea&#8211; eco-friendly, clever, and well designed.\u00a0 A perfect YouGoods design for National Inventors Month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Christy Eichers, the newest YouGoods Winner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[742],"tags":[135,30,172,171,28,31,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}