Nothing has a way of making a person feel older than sorting
out junk (er...um treasures) that were put in boxes sometime in the last
century. Like running across an old
application that had the following request:
I actually brought a manual typewriter to college! Not all
was trailing edge of technology; most of my papers were printed on a state of
the art “dot matrix” printer.
Other signs that I am from another century:
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I actually have slides (not power point…slides)
that I took!
·
I have more cassette tapes than CDs, let alone
MP3s! Still need to hand a cassette to my kids and see if they can figure out
how to play it (makes me feel better about the fact I can’t work the TV half of
the time)
Things that I can’t throw away:
Maybe it is me, but there are just certain things that I
find difficult to throw away:
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Pennies??? I get to the bottom of some box and
there are paper clips, random business cards, pens, miscellaneous hardware, and
some old candy. I can dump all of that into a trash can without blinking…except
when there are pennies. There may only
be 3, with some type of green stuff growing on them, now I have to sort through
it all and pick out the pennies. WHY IS
THIS?
·
Bibles- I don’t think I am superstitious, but I
simply have a hard time throwing away Bibles.
Do you bury them, or put them into jars and leave them in a cave? At some point I’ll have to accept the fact
that my copies aren’t the original manuscripts.
·
Thanks to
Pixar, I can’t even throw away my kids toys because there is a Woody doll in
the box!
I still remember the days when I could fit everything that I
owned into a Chevrolet Chevette, and complete the task in less than 10
minutes. It was good thing, because the
time I saved in packing was lost during the painstakingly slow drive offered by
the 70 horsepower engine…probably was for the better not to have the option of
getting a speeding ticket during my college days.
Gone are the days when it takes 10 minutes to pack
