TBW Daily Diary

New cards have arrived--some have even sold already . . . Bob and I were remembering our "back-to-school" days recently. A lot different then than now. A new pair of jeans, perhaps, and maybe a new pair of shoes. No calculators, laptops, or backpacks. The school gave us pencils and pads and they had to last for a semester. A watchful teacher would complain that we were sharpening our pencils too often. We each had a pencil box--Bob's was cardboard and I think mine was wood. Each contained a couple of pencils, an eraser, a six-inch ruler and a compass which neither of us knew what to do with. I had a webbed strap that went around my stack of books to making carrying easier . . . don't remember what the total investment was, but it was no where near what it is today. We both were "needy" kids back then, but our "needy" was totally different from those "needs" of today . . .