RICHARD
10-02-2010, 07:45 PM
Now that the house has to be emptied I am finding all kinds of treasure in boxes of papers my Ma and Pa had collected.
Some are photos, receipts, papers and letters from their lifetimes.
Wow.
I found some report cards for some sibs, I found a V-mail letter from an uncle that I never knew. During the Second World War a soldier had to write on a form to send out a letter. That form was then looked at by a censor, copied and shrunk into a sheet about 5x8 and stuffed into a tiny envelope. The writing is so small I cannot read it!
I have found pictures of people I do not know....Please take the time to put a note on your photos, Someday you sibs or offspring will do the same thing I am doing and will wonder about who they are looking at!
I found a receipt for a color TV they bought in 1971. 463 dollars!
That was a huge amount of money back then!
I found statements of all kinds and a hospital bill for my sister's birth. It cost about 250 dollars.
I would gladly pay the hospital to take her back. I'd give them 48 cents.;):D
I found 57,000 pesos.
In Mexican Money......
That is worth nothing.
I went on line and found out that the Mex gov't. changed the coins in the
90's and the 57,000 pesos, which, had they not been taken out of circulation and made worthless, would be worth about 4,000 dollars in U.S. dollars.
Oh well, I have always use them in a slingshot? Or on Halloween?:eek::rolleyes:;)
I am almost thru with most of the papers, but am looking forward to see what else shows up.
I'll let you all know!:)
Some are photos, receipts, papers and letters from their lifetimes.
Wow.
I found some report cards for some sibs, I found a V-mail letter from an uncle that I never knew. During the Second World War a soldier had to write on a form to send out a letter. That form was then looked at by a censor, copied and shrunk into a sheet about 5x8 and stuffed into a tiny envelope. The writing is so small I cannot read it!
I have found pictures of people I do not know....Please take the time to put a note on your photos, Someday you sibs or offspring will do the same thing I am doing and will wonder about who they are looking at!
I found a receipt for a color TV they bought in 1971. 463 dollars!
That was a huge amount of money back then!
I found statements of all kinds and a hospital bill for my sister's birth. It cost about 250 dollars.
I would gladly pay the hospital to take her back. I'd give them 48 cents.;):D
I found 57,000 pesos.
In Mexican Money......
That is worth nothing.
I went on line and found out that the Mex gov't. changed the coins in the
90's and the 57,000 pesos, which, had they not been taken out of circulation and made worthless, would be worth about 4,000 dollars in U.S. dollars.
Oh well, I have always use them in a slingshot? Or on Halloween?:eek::rolleyes:;)
I am almost thru with most of the papers, but am looking forward to see what else shows up.
I'll let you all know!:)