I keep a physical address book. This is from back in the day when digital address weren't a thing and I keep it for sentimental reasons. This shows years and years of contacts in my handwriting. It follows friends' moves from new home to new home to new home. My kids' first addresses after each one moved out on his or her own are in this book. Friends from Todd's work who lost their jobs and moved away after PNC bought out the mortgage company are in there. It tells a story.
At Christmas I was getting ready to send a few Christmas cards and oh no! I could not find the address book. I looked everywhere but no luck. I put it in one of those places where I would never forget where it was when the house remodel started. A little while ago Todd was looking around for something and guess what he found? Yep...the good ole trusty address book. Friends' Christmas cards turned into Happy New Year cards.
I am still keeping my address book but am working on transferring addresses into the Contacts on my computer. It's the best of both worlds.
I am the same. I panicked when I couldn't find my address book at Christmas card time. It seems P had borrowed it and put it in a different place. Phew...
ReplyDeleteI bought a new address book last year, they are hard to find. I bought a nice leather covered one, with snap ring binders, and extra pages. It should outlast me.
ReplyDeleteThis makes me wish I had kept the one that mom kept. I have a friend who still keeps an address book and an appointment book.
ReplyDeleteHow odd. I still have one, too. And just today, I misread it and couldn't find a nephew's phone number. Called a cousin in the same town and she gave it to me. Later I found it, both in the address book and on my smartphone. Gadfrey!
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