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<p>[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 320786, member: 649"]The 1958 travel diary mentioned in my siggie below was an estate sale purchase. I loved it so much I had to share! (And I keep up the payments for the web addy so others can continue to enjoy it, too.)</p><p>I also found, at a different estate sale, a completely handwritten 1927 cookbook with bunches of recipes. It's a treasure!</p><p>At yet another sale, I purchased a box of scores of little love notes a 1940s woman wrote to her future husband. Cute, but not a lot of variety or interesting info. Though the lipstick kisses on the papers are amusing!</p><p>It's amazing the family "treasures" that people DON'T want to keep... some people just aren't sentimental (or perhaps the author of the diary/notes was not a well-liked person). At each sale, I specifically asked if the item was wanted by the family and it was declined.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bluumz, post: 320786, member: 649"]The 1958 travel diary mentioned in my siggie below was an estate sale purchase. I loved it so much I had to share! (And I keep up the payments for the web addy so others can continue to enjoy it, too.) I also found, at a different estate sale, a completely handwritten 1927 cookbook with bunches of recipes. It's a treasure! At yet another sale, I purchased a box of scores of little love notes a 1940s woman wrote to her future husband. Cute, but not a lot of variety or interesting info. Though the lipstick kisses on the papers are amusing! It's amazing the family "treasures" that people DON'T want to keep... some people just aren't sentimental (or perhaps the author of the diary/notes was not a well-liked person). At each sale, I specifically asked if the item was wanted by the family and it was declined.[/QUOTE]
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