Something old

When we got back to LA in September 2010, I had a huge cleaning bug.  My attitude was, "Well, if I didn't miss it while we were in Boise, I'm getting rid of it!" I started cleaning out all the closets, bins, shelves, you name it. I lost count of the DI bags that went out of our house. But it felt SO good! I was tired of a constantly messy house because we lived in like 900 square feet and didn't have a place to put everything.
Even talking about it makes me want to clean my house again.......
Anyway, one day while I was going through some stuff shoved somewhere, I came across this:

Anyone recognize those?? Barbs, Shells, Katie, Cam, Heather--show this post to Kyle, I know you all read my blog! What a blast from the past!  And for those that didn't go to high school with me.....you're looking at the programs from a bunch of high school dances. How precious. :)
My first thought was, "WHY in the heck did those even ever get packed to come to CA?!" Now, I will be the first to tell you that I'm a nostalgic person. That's why I'm back blogging, after all.  I want to have our life written down and printed in a blog book.  And I liked high school, too.  I have great memories from those dances, I still have all my dance pics tucked away in some bin in storage at my sisters house, yadda yadda. But the program?? That's where I draw the line, especially when space is precious in our tiny LA apt.
I took pics of them.....are you dying to see who was in the Homecoming Royalty? I thought so. So I took a pic of that too.  May I present your Homecoming Royalty from MVHS, Class of 2002:

Congratulations, everyone.

And then, after 9 years of storing them, it was time to put the programs in the trash. I welcomed the extra space in my closet, and a fun walk down memory lane. :)