Roseirish - your post made me think of something.....wondering if anyone would like to "play" a kind of "remember when"....that is .... something that "used to be" and maybe isn't so much any more. The mention of catalogs made me think of making Christmas trees out of the Readers Digest. You folded each page twice - and when you had done every page it was in a shape like a Christmas tree. You glued the back and front pages together and it made a round tree. Then you painted it and decorated it with anything you had - buttons, painted macaroni.
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I tried this with my DGD a few years back - and because RD had gone to very thin paper, it only made half a tree... But we still had fun...we just had to do 2 magazines and glue them together.
Anyway...would sure love to hear your stories about special things you did growing up.
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