Greeting cards have traditionally been used to send a message to someone. On receipt greeting cards are usually either kept as a memento or thrown away.

There are various types of greeting cards on the market, which cards are used for a variety of reasons, for example, birthdays, marriages or Christmas.

There are various disadvantages associated with greeting cards, particularly if the writer makes a mistake, the card is then effectively ruined and under most circumstances, can not be sent.

The writer is then required to go to the expensive exercise of purchasing another greeting card.

A further disadvantages of greeting cards is that a selection of the population are of the opinion that at times such as Christmas, so many cards are forwarded and received, it is a waste of natural resources.

Though there have been efforts made to recycle used greeting cards by recipients of the cards placing them in receptacles at various retail outlets, this process is not entirely satisfactory as it depends on a recipients participation in the process.

It is the object of present invention to overcome the above- mentioned problems by providing a greeting card that is re- usable.

The invention includes in its broadest sense a greeting card which has an impervious surface coating applied to its surface, which coating enables card to be written on and the writer or the receiver to clean the surface for correction or re-use.

Some of the advantages of a greeting card that has a reusable surface are that the card can be wiped clean and reused many times. This will conserve natural resources at the same time as saving the receiver money in purchasing a new card. In order that the invention may be more readily understood, we shall describe a preferred embodiment of the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Fig 1 is a perspective view of a greeting card with a writing implement.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention I take a standard greeting card (1) and apply a new surface (2) that is able to receive writing thereon but which can be wiped clean, this surface being preferably a laminate or the like.

It is preferable that only the inner surface of the greeting card has the impervious surface coating applied thereto, though the entire surface of the greeting card may have the impervious surface coating applied thereto.

For functional purposes, I use a surface that is resistant to a water soluble writing implement (3). When the writer writes on the surface with, say, a water soluble pen, the ink does not eat into the surface of the greeting card, therefore, when required, the ink can simply be removed from the greeting card by wiping this with a cloth or the like.

In a further form of the invention it is possible to use a surface which is resistant to a permanent ink. To remove this ink, one could use an alcohol based solvent, such as methylated spirits.

In a further form of the invention the greeting card may be sold in conjunction with a writing implement appropriate for the writer to use and on forward with the card, so that, after the ink is removed, the card can be re-written upon.

It will be appreciated that the unit of the invention can be used in many applications. There are many other applications of the invention which are not specifically described herein and, such applications are deemed to be part of the invention.