We are slowly working on downsizing things around here.
Rick found a box in the bedroom closet; we knew it had been in there for years, but we never really opened it to see what it was. He opened it yesterday. OMG! It contains old bills, old returned checks and check stubs.....from back in the late 60s to very early 70s!
Needless to say, we sat down and took a good gander through everything. There were checks in there that blew us away. I had written a check to our local library for $9.50 cents for a library fine!
I'm always good about reading books, but I never, ever get the books back to the library in time and am constantly paying fines. Rick looked at me and said, "Wow! Some things never change!" Snot
Old electric bills, old telephone bills. I remembered what most of our old telephone numbers were. Rick could not.
He found the check from me buying Baby Blue and being able to bring it home, my first Kitchen Aid stand mixer. I had put it on layaway and paid every week before I could finally get it out of hock. Baby Blue is still being used in our kitchen, along with Big Red, our new stand mixer.
There was a check from a local nice women's clothing store (no longer in existence, sad to say) that Rick had bought me a gorgeous garnet-colored wool skirt and vest. I remember that. And I remember how upset our mothers were when he bought it for me because we weren't married. But I liked it and he loved it, so he bought it. It took me a while to remember that outfit. That was in 1970. I did a lot of shopping in that store. A check for the down payment on our mobile home (that we had for about a year before losing it in the flood from Hurricane Agnes in '72). A check for his 1971 Mustang that he ordered right before we realized we were getting married. A check to a local jewelry store for my pearl ring and then another one for my garnet ring, and then later for our wedding bands (I never cared for diamonds). A check for our first queen mattress and box springs. It was like walking down memory lane and we enjoyed it.
We found some old warranties for stuff we no longer have.
Old paycheck stubs. Way, way back then? We were making about $12,000 a year.....combined. I don't know, maybe we were under the poverty level and didn't know it. Whatever. We were happy. We had food. We weren't starving. We had Graham and he was healthy (except for his asthma). Thinking back, god, we were such innocents. I know it sounds silly, but we were.
We took a good look at everything and then he started to shred the papers. He's about halfway through the box. Why we ever kept it that long is beyond us.
Did you ever find anything like that? What did you do with it?
Rick found a box in the bedroom closet; we knew it had been in there for years, but we never really opened it to see what it was. He opened it yesterday. OMG! It contains old bills, old returned checks and check stubs.....from back in the late 60s to very early 70s!
Old electric bills, old telephone bills. I remembered what most of our old telephone numbers were. Rick could not.
He found the check from me buying Baby Blue and being able to bring it home, my first Kitchen Aid stand mixer. I had put it on layaway and paid every week before I could finally get it out of hock. Baby Blue is still being used in our kitchen, along with Big Red, our new stand mixer.
There was a check from a local nice women's clothing store (no longer in existence, sad to say) that Rick had bought me a gorgeous garnet-colored wool skirt and vest. I remember that. And I remember how upset our mothers were when he bought it for me because we weren't married. But I liked it and he loved it, so he bought it. It took me a while to remember that outfit. That was in 1970. I did a lot of shopping in that store. A check for the down payment on our mobile home (that we had for about a year before losing it in the flood from Hurricane Agnes in '72). A check for his 1971 Mustang that he ordered right before we realized we were getting married. A check to a local jewelry store for my pearl ring and then another one for my garnet ring, and then later for our wedding bands (I never cared for diamonds). A check for our first queen mattress and box springs. It was like walking down memory lane and we enjoyed it.
We found some old warranties for stuff we no longer have.
Old paycheck stubs. Way, way back then? We were making about $12,000 a year.....combined. I don't know, maybe we were under the poverty level and didn't know it. Whatever. We were happy. We had food. We weren't starving. We had Graham and he was healthy (except for his asthma). Thinking back, god, we were such innocents. I know it sounds silly, but we were.
We took a good look at everything and then he started to shred the papers. He's about halfway through the box. Why we ever kept it that long is beyond us.
Did you ever find anything like that? What did you do with it?
