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Found a 1973 grocery list tucked into a cookbook at the library sale
My neighbor, who's 82, saw it and said 'That's not just a list, that's a week's pay.' She explained how the prices for milk and bread back then meant the person buying it was really budgeting. Do you think people leave these things on purpose, or is it always an accident?
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river3202d ago
Man, that hits hard. Your neighbor is totally right, it's a record of someone's real life and what things cost them. I lean toward it being an accident most times, just stuff left in a book and forgotten. But the cool part is how it stops being just a lost list the second someone else finds it. Then it's like a message, even if it wasn't meant to be. Makes you really see the person behind it.
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alex3072d ago
I used to think they were just lost, but now I see them as little time capsules left on purpose.
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