Holy smackers Stan; that's an amazing amount of info; and for only 2 cents! My check's in the mail. No wait, I'll do an e-transfer. 
Kidding aside, thanks very much for the insight. And in truth I had not heard of the 153E. Interesting stuff.
It was not my intent to launch a new innovation for the forum. As you said, there are plenty of options readily available out there. This is just my own take on a compact small board to use wherever needed. If anyone wants to roll their own I will make the gerbers available for use, no worries. Otherwise its just something I want to have in my box of tools. I am sorry if it came across as anything else. 
I was all set to put in a board order 2 days ago, but I have found its always best to wait a day or two, because a 2nd and 3rd look usually turns up places for improvement. No exception here; I have redesigned the board now with a single diode half wave rectifier, cheaper and should be ample to drive a small relay coil. Overall I was able to reduce the board size to just over one square inch, so they will cost about $5.35 for 3 , or about $1.78 each at OSH Park. No big deal. And I have all else in stock including the form 2C relays, bought for another project. I may also add a power on indicator led.
I have not figured out my all in cost, and frankly I don't care. Won't be more than 5 bucks or so, and I will just build them as and when needed. For me part of the fun is building the board, as long as its only a few. It would be considerably cheaper if using Asian boards of course, just takes longer to get them. For the few I am likely to ever need I'll just order about 6 boards from OP.
I do like your find of 10 x HK19DC relays for $5. I will likely order up a few of those. That's pretty sweet pricing.
Its all good, Rod
