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I just hit 50 forgotten bookmarks in my collection and it made me rethink my whole hobby.
For years, I just kept the things I found in books in a shoebox, thinking it was just a neat pile of old paper. Last week, I finally sorted them all and the count hit exactly 50. Seeing that number made it feel real, like an archive instead of junk. The one that got me was a 1972 grocery list from a book I bought in Phoenix, with items like 'laundry bluing' and 'spool of darning thread'. It hit me that these aren't just scraps, they're tiny, personal histories. Has anyone else had a specific find that shifted how you see your collection?
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mitchell.lee4mo ago
That 1972 list shows how much home repair has changed, doesn't it?
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verawhite4mo ago
Okay but come on, it's a grocery list from 1972. People bought weird stuff back then. Feels like we're putting a museum plaque on every scrap of paper these days. My old books have crumbs and coffee stains, not exactly a time capsule.
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reeseperez4mo ago
Putting a museum plaque on every scrap of paper" is exactly the problem. It makes the actually important historical stuff harder to find. A stained grocery list is just old trash, not a lesson.
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