Pages From the Past

“Just toss it!” is the rallying cry of these weeks. But some items we simply can’t bring ourselves to discard. 9 writers share
I was the kind of girl who tossed her notes in the trash on the way out the door the last day of school. Not because I don’t value studies and knowledge (I do — I’m a teacher), but because I grew up in a clutter-free zone. We only kept the things we needed. Last year’s notebooks never fell into that category.
I brought this approach into my marriage. Just ask my husband. I inadvertantly threw out his law school notes (corporate tax) in a fit of tidying, and they weren’t the ones from the previous semester. Miraculously, my first grade notebook survived the clutter purges, and that’s because Mrs. Weiss, my first grade teacher, saved it. She said it was the neatest notebook of her career, and she sent it home with my daughter around 13 years ago.
I can’t bring myself to throw it away.
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