Laughter is Cheaper than Candy This Halloween

Happy Halloween! One of my personal favorite holidays, the perfect combination of costumes, candy, and a silly spooky good time. My friends and I throw a highly anticipated over-the-the top Pumpkin Punch and Zombie Zinfandel costume extravaganza each year. The lawn becomes a creepy ghostly graveyard and the house a blacklit Dr. Frankenstein disco room primed for the Monster Mash. Only this year, after spreading cobwebs and pumpkins and fake hands around the house, we somehow forgot an important party of the party plan: the invitations. Whoops… less than a week away, snail mail was impossible. And Facebook/email invites don’t convey magnitude of the ghoulish party people have come to expect.

That’s when we found out about JibJab, home of the funniest eCards on the web. The JibJab eCards are very witty, and you probably know them for their political satire animated shorts that go viral each election year. JibJabs cards are made even funnier because you can personalize them—inserting pictures of you and/or your friends into the eCards and videos. I wanted to make sure my invites would be a success, so I tried out a free JibJab Starring You Card and choose a picture of my roommate’s cat’s face plugged into a funny pose along with the head of Kanye West, since you can insert your favorite celebrity heads (like Obama or Madonna) into the cards. In under two minutes I had emailed my card to my roommate, and in under one minute my roommate replied “LOL, I can’t stop laughing!” Excellent response. My roommates and I inserted our heads plus Kim Jong-Il into an awesomely hilarious animation video of the Monster Mash and sent out our last minute Halloween eCard invitation. The RSVP’s have flooded in.

But JibJab is more than just Halloween eCards. You can find Christmas, Chaunakah, and all the holidays, as well as hundreds of funny anniversary, birthday, thank you, wedding cards and much much more. Even funny sorry cards for when you want to get back in your friend’s good graces. And besides eCards, you can insert you and your friend’s mugs in dancing and talking videos, or cast yourself in a music video with your favorite celeb crush (like the Beibster). Even an animated Star Wars movie! Plus, if you can’t stop laughing from your eCard creation, which is highly likely, JibJab lets you turn it into a real mug, or a pack of cards, or some printed cards to send the old fashioned way. Sounds like a good idea for next year, when we definitely won’t forget the invites. Plus, with the price of cards and postage going up, it’s easy to save with JibJab eCards, at only $1 a month. That’s less than three real cards and a roll of stamps or a bag of Halloween candy.

JibJab’s goal is to make people laugh more than any other business in the world. Check them out, I think you’ll agree they’ll get there. If you want to send laughter to your friends, check out JibJab. And don’t forget to have a Happy Halloween!