Instead of three things to tell you about today, I got rid of a lot of paper, so there will be three categories instead in keeping with my Toss-Three-A-Day intention. If I counted each individual item as one, the blog would be agonizingly tedious and would reach into the next millennium. Lord knows there's enough paper in my house.
Eighteen mail-order catalogs which I have kept "just in case" I might want to go back and order something I missed with the first order.
Seven travel books from AAA. One was for a trip to Yosemite I took over 30 years ago and another for a trip to Yellowstone some 20 years ago. Souvenirs I never looked at afterward. I don't know how I made it to the Grand Canyon without an AAA book, but I did.
Fifteen maps of Los Angeles and environs. (Did I happen to mention I like maps, too?) I had the pleasure of doing my duty as a good citizen to serve jury duty every 2 years in L.A. for 14 years, circa 1979 to 1991. During the long 2-hour lunch break on the first day of each 10 day stint, I would go to the gift shop at the New Otani Hotal in Little Tokyo and get a visitors guide map of the city. Sometimes I wouldn't always remember to bring the map, so would get another one. Kept them all. Souvenirs or, better yet, "just in case" I might go back again I wouldn't have to stop at the hotel. I would already have one.
So much for maps. I have a GPS on my iPhone now. (If my parents could come forward in time and read this last sentence, they would have no idea what I just said.)
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