At the time, I wanted to make games with cards in them, but I didn't have the means to make those cards, not with fancy rounded corners. Thus, when I saw these in the town sold-this-kind-of-thing shop (Cordock's, Hornsea people), I had to have them. They were expensive, I think about two days' wages from my weekend job in the amusement arcade (Pastimes, Hornsea people), but they were big and they were gilt-edged.
I decided when I got them home that I couldn't just use them for prototypes, they were just too good for that. I was going to save them for best.
Best never came and I still have them. There are 30 in total, with the top and bottom ones discoloured by age but the rest still very serviceable.
I think I should probably accept that I'm not going to use them to make games now. I have clippers I can use to add rounded corners to square-cornered cards and these gilt-edged ones are too big to hold in the hand. They're more the pick-one-up-and-do-what-it-says-then-put-it-at-the-bottom-of-the-pack variety. That being the case, what should I do with them?
Well, I thought that rather than throw them in the recycling bin I should use them for scrap. I often write things on bits of paper then throw them out when I've done what I've told myself to do (if I can read my handwriting), so these are ideal. Except ... well they're just too good for that. Half an hour ago, I wrote a line on some 3-inch square paper that I'll throw away after I've typed the text into Word. Do I really want to do that with gilt-edged card? Shouldn't I save it for more important notes that I might want to last longer than two hours?
I can see myself once more saving these cards for when I need them. It's like with role-playing games where you have the super-powerful potion but you don't want to use it because you might need it, so you don't, then you reach the end of the game and never did use it so it was pointless having it.
I may have to cut the cards in two so I'm not tempted to keep them until they're thrown in my coffin. Either that, or I recycle them as they are because I know they're not going to get used no matter what I do.