Every Monday I post the AW Monday Meme at the forum I moderate over on Absolute Write. I stopped posting them on my blogger blog because someone near and dear to me got a teensy bit grumpy that I was posting memes and not much else - I was going thru a rather difficult time but I got over it and since then I think I've only posted a quiz or two and a couple very special memes.
I kind of liked tonite's (I make up a lot of these all on my own, this is another one) so I figured I'd put it up on this blog (under the fold).
I might even answer it eventually. :-)
Personal Archeology Meme
Time to dig into your past! Just use your best recollection – no need to go digging around in the attic or cellar for this stuff.
1. Do you have a picture of yourself as an infant, toddler or youngster in your own scrapbook, picture album or shoebox? If so, how old were you? What where you doing?
2. What is the oldest piece of clothing you have in your closet. What is it? Do you wear it or just keep it for sentimental purposes, or because you haven’t had time to give it away yet?
3. Do you have any souvenirs? If so, what is the oldest one, where is it from and how did you come to have it?
4. Do you have an appliance, utensil, dish, glass, platter, etc., or cooking implement in the kitchen that you got from a relative when you moved away from home? What is it and who gave it to you?
5. What’s the oldest thing in your medicine cabinet? (and maybe it’s time to toss out the expired stuff!)
6. Was the place you currently live in occupied prior to you? Did they leave anything behind? What? If not, have you ever heard any stories about folk who lived there before you did and would you share one?
7. Do you have any old IDs, business cards or other bits of old flotsam in your purse/wallet? What is the oldest thing there and why do you keep it?
8. Do you have your yearbooks? When was the last time you looked at them? What is the thing you like most about your favorite yearbook? What’s the thing you like least about your least favorite yearbook? (I don’t know if this is a ‘global’ question – so forgive me if you are from somewhere that getting a yearbook is not a tradition)
9. Do you have a(ny) old key(s)? Do you know what it/they’re for? Why did you keep it/them?
10. 100 years from now, what would you wish someone had as a memento of you?
hee hee. You saw thru that, huh?
Posted by: Dawno at April 12, 2006 10:00 PM