Day Eight

I have been a notorious pamphleteer most of my life -- a habit I am really trying to break. So out go all the useless ones, including "Know the Bear Facts," one from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Division of Fish and Wildlife that I picked up during one of the New Jersey State Fairs that I went to with Connie and Ed. It's about how humans can deal with New Jersey's considerable black bear population. It got wet and the pages are wrinkled and stuck together.

Day Seven

Another quarter of paper with words and numbers on it that mean nothing to me: 5/24/83 JC Tilton 1982 ___________ Haney + Co. Maison d'etre

Day Six

Tossing out a slip of a cab receipt from 5/21/06 for $4.90. The ride lasted from 3:360 to 3:43...was I in my dress and heels and going somewhere for a Drama Desk Awards event?

Day Five

A receipt from Green Apple Cleaners from 1/17/2012 for mending for a pair of pants: "please mend tare [sic] on seat of pants.. and patch hole by pocket," it says. It was $9 and if these are the flimsy tan pants from Nordstrom I was thinking of they were not not worth $9 to repair.

Day Four

A receipt so old and faded that the only words I can make out on it are the name of the store: My Sister's Favorite Things. I remember it was/is a store near the Asbury Park beach that I went to with Connie and Ed on a day trip before they got the house in Pennsylvania. I believe I bought some jewelry there...

Day Three

Throwing away an ad ripped from a Metro New York newspaper for a computer-repair place in midtown. I checked and the website (bluedata-ny.com) now belongs to an English-language school.

Day Two

Today is another easy one: a small piece of lined adhesive paper with issues of magazines listed on the front: Advocate 9/03, Interview May 2004, GQ January 2002, Biography Magazine (no date)...and on the back, the mailing address for purchasing back issues of New York magazine for $8: 444 Madison Ave, NY, NY 10022.