Forgotten How-to’s
- This was posted on July 19, 2010
Recently I was at a friend’s house and noticed a book set that looked familiar. I flipped one open and noticed the library stamp for Houston, Texas. Could it be? I asked my friend, who confirmed that yes, these were the books that I had given him eight years ago when I cleaned out my grandfather’s library. I had transported them up from Houston to Denton and he had carried it with him from apartment to house to loft, Denton to Richardson to Dallas.
The books were of a set of how-to encyclopedias from the mid-fifties. The illustrations alone were worth hauling the books around and hilarious consumer safety issues were a real laugh with things like “how to make your own baby highchair.”
The books capture a moment in time when a do-it-yourself attitude was all you needed to make any number of goods that we never think of attempting now days. In some segments of the population, there is a return to making things by hand or using your resources to buy from small entrepreneurs. There is a growing recognition of the value of things made by hand.
While these books certainly reminded me of that, they also reaffirmed my relationship with my friend. When I first saw the books, I knew who they needed to belong to and all these years later they are still in use. If you’re thinking about selling annuity payments, you want to choose a company that you can trust. When it comes to the how-to of relationships they, like reputations, are built over time.This is so important when you want to get cash for structured settlement payments.
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