Moving parent...

[Rightupinthere]

My mother purchased a new house and is in the process of moving out of her current home of 28 years.

I found a shoe box. The shoe box contained items I had attached to those large dark corkboard squares you would set up in your dorm room.
Here's a list:

*1988 homecoming button. The theme was "Rockin' to the Rhythm."

*1989 homecoming button. The theme was "Prime Time".

*Name badge from the 1990 OMEA conference.

*Ticket stub. UAO and BGSU CMA presents Stanley Jordan. April 7, 1990. That was a hell of a concert.

*A bag of BG Bottle caps. These were caps which went on the old 12 ounce returnable soda bottles. They were brown with an orange falcon head on it. They were made by the College of Technology (Manufacturing 112)

*A green ticket stub from th 1989 Parent's Day Show featuring Mark Russel. My sides still hurt from my laughter. sec C row 5 seat 11. On the back are the standard ads from Myles Pizza and Miles DQ separated by a diagonal slash.

*A Penny Racer

*Garfield PEZ dispenser with some PEZ candies still in it. If you're saying "ewe! Gross!" then I won't tell you that the candies don't taste too good anymore.

*A photo of me. WITH HAIR!

*A deflated red balloon. It has a ships wheel on it with "Dry Dock" printed across the wheel.

*Silly Putty which is still pliable after all these years.

*A skeleton earing. I wore that a lot back then.

*A matchbook from "Kaufman's University Motor Lodge"

*One of those new fangled Bic erasable pens! Cutting edge technology, folks.

*April 25, 1990. Ticket stub from Scott Hamilton and Friends at the BGSU Ice Arena. Sec H Row 1 seat 18. Proceeds went to the American Cancer Society.

*Ticket stub from 1988 Parents Day Show "The Letterman"

*Ticket stub from the Jun 24, 1989 Blossom concert of the Doobie Brothers. To this day I still miss those brain cells.

*Name badge from 1988 BGSUFMB Fundamentals. My name was spelled wrong. It had an 'O' where an 'A' should have been. I couldn't get a new name badge so I took a Sharpie and wrote an A over the O. Instrument: Mellophone (Baker rank rules!)

*Two grade reports from BGSU. I shant give the details of those.

All this makes me realize that I am one really wierd emm-effer to hang onto this stuff so long.

[TG1996]

All this makes me realize that I am one really wierd emm-effer to hang onto this stuff so long.

I guarantee you're not the ONLY weird "emm-effer". Especially considering the at least one, probably two paper boxes I have full of old programs, media guides, and scoresheets from games, along with just about every media pass I've been issued, as well as ticket stubs out the ears.

Maybe some of that stuff should be whittled down, but the tickets and printed items are a must-keep, I'd say.

(And is that the same Stanley Jordan concert that comes up everywhere when I search for BG stuff on amazon/ebay/wherever cheap things are sold?)

[Rightupinthere]

And is that the same Stanley Jordan concert that comes up everywhere when I search for BG stuff on amazon/ebay/wherever cheap things are sold?

Probably. He only played once that I'm aware of. It was a pretty good show.

I'm going to toss everything but the Silly Putty and $.25 stamps.

[TG1996]

Nevermind. "Tal Farlow" is the one I kept coming across, though I swear I remember seeing a Stanley Jordan at BGSU entry somewhere...

http://tinyurl.com/9htz2

Hold onto those stamps for about three more years, and you can use two of them to pay your postage...

[VAFalcon]

Mark... I came across some old "Trip Books" from band trips to away football games a few years ago. I can't remember if I tossed them or threw them back in a box in the attic... 'spose if I did that, I'll come across them again in 10 or 20 years...

[pdt1081]

I guarantee you're not the ONLY weird "emm-effer". Especially considering the at least one, probably two paper boxes I have full of old programs, media guides, and scoresheets from games, along with just about every media pass I've been issued, as well as ticket stubs out the ears.

I have a program from every home hockey game starting in 93-94 or so up until they stopped selling "real" programs at games. Some are autographed. I also have Media Guides from 93-94 up until this seasons. Don't even get me started on ticket stubs.