Home computer manufacturers began to get into some pretty serious price wars with each other, making their products much cheaper than they had been, and hence more accessible for tightwads like yourself. Curse you!īut luckily for you, things weren’t going to remain this way forever. Which would leave you sitting in McDonald’s eating your Big Mac alone, plotting your revenge against Hallmark for engineering the single greatest extortion racket in the history of rackets. The Print Shop made printers fun!Īnd let’s not even get started on greeting cards, those vile instruments of larceny that existed only to relieve you of your Big Mac money because if you didn’t buy them for every birthday, wedding, anniversary and holiday to give to every family member, friend, co-worker and all the other people you were even remotely acquainted with, you were certain to be outed as the tightwad you were and they might not want to be seen in public with you anymore. And coloured fanfold paper (some of which was included in The Print Shop’s retail box, along with some coloured envelopes). Finally, a use for a home computer beyond business, education and games! I kid but really what The Print Shop was an excuse for was a dot-matrix printer.

And so, usually it was back to the felt markers or whatever else you could find lying around the house, and being the tightwad you were you would not-so-happily contribute an additional indignity to the ever-growing mountain of your own personal shame, because you wanted that Big Mac for yourself, dammit. Each poster could end up running you the same price as a Big Mac – or even a whole Meal Deal – and with that kind of overhead it could make the whole yard sale endeavour smell much less appetizing. Otherwise you could get the local printer to do it but it wasn’t going to be very cost-effective, especially in such a small quantity.

You could get some blank sheets of paper and some crayons or felt markers for the whole do-it-yourself experience, which was cheap but unless you were a professional illustrator the results were bound to leave something to be desired, if not be downright embarrassing. In the early 1980s, if you wanted posters to advertise a yard sale or a party, your options were pretty limited.

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