A-F

I mentioned some time ago that we were shredding old files. We previously disposed of a lot of out-dated financial records, private as well as business. Today it was vacation files.

We've been to a lot of places and in addition to bringing back fond memories, we collected maps, sight-seeing brochures, hotel and rental car bills and other assorted items you acquire on a trip of a week or more. They're supposed to be memorabilia and to some extent they are. Mostly, they just collect dust.

What triggered today's disposal binge was something a friend said recently. They were going someplace we had visited. We offered them our maps and brochures. Thanks, they said, but we can get all that information from the web.

Reality struck! All this stuff lurking in the basement was useless. We too could access the web if we needed information about any place on earth.

Up from the basement came two storage boxes of travel folders. Did I mention my wife puts everything in a folder?

So today we started with Amsterdam, Arizona, Brussels, California, Colorado, Costa Rica, Eastern Europe (which we never got to), Florida, France and probably some others I can't remember because I wasn't thinking of writing about them until they were all in the shredder.

Next up, box two: G-Z.

We hope our son appreciates the work we're saving him.