{"id":9574,"date":"2011-05-05T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9574"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","slug":"day-170-shopping-bag-collection-and-assorted-papers-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9574","title":{"rendered":"Day 170 – Shopping Bag Collection and Assorted Papers (Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sorted through a\u00a0whole bunch of old papers to put in recycling…<\/p>\n\n\n

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Among the papers: Numerous Brochures – \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Epcot Center \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kennedy Space Center (1984) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wall Drug \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mammoth Cave \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Badlands \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Faneuil Hall (Summer 1987) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coca-Cola Museum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Various Summer Camp brochures from\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 camps\u00a0I\u00a0worked\u00a0\u00a0 Also: Flight Itineraries (Saudi Arabia and\u00a0Scotland) Easter cards from Grandma Gross Various Photos Thank You Cards Newspaper Clippings Wedding Announcements and Programs Church Bulletins Obituaries Cats Playbill A Kwanzaa Card … from Luke and Gavin And just to show that my pack-rat tendencies also have a romantic side, here are some of the hearts I found on the floor of my house on Valentine’s Day of 2000, when Melissa and I were dating.\u00a0 She let herself into my house (I left it unlocked – she didn’t have a key.\u00a0 Just sayin’.) and spread hearts all over.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now that I think about it, it’s a good thing I was head over heals in love with her already (we’d only been together for a month and a half) or I probably would have thought, “PSYCHO!!”\u00a0 Ha! And then there was my shopping bag collection.\u00a0 I actually used to collect bags from various places I visited.\u00a0 You might be thinking, “Psycho!!”, but\u00a0they are truly the perfect souvenir for tight wads!\u00a0 On some of them, I thought ahead and recorded the year right on the bag and I have included some of those dates here.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Bags: Cactus Jack’s, Keystone, S.D. Conner Prairie Epcot Center World’s Only Corn Palace (June 1988) Norman Rockwell Museum Brookfield Zoo of Chicago (1983) Orange Ring of Florida (1980) Major Hospital (Probably the clothing bag from my hernia operation over spring break of my sophomore year at Wabash!) Urbana Missions Conference of 1987 Sea World King’s Island Mt. Rushmore The Big Apple (in Al-khobar, Saudi Arabia!) Golden Gate Bridge Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park The Luxor Hotel of Las Vegas Warner Bros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorted through a\u00a0whole bunch of old papers to put in recycling… Among the papers: Numerous Brochures – \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Epcot Center \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kennedy Space Center (1984) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wall Drug \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mammoth Cave \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Badlands \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Faneuil Hall (Summer 1987) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coca-Cola Museum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Various Summer Camp brochures from\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 camps\u00a0I\u00a0worked\u00a0\u00a0 Also: Flight Itineraries (Saudi Arabia and\u00a0Scotland) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9578,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9574\/revisions\/9578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}