What’s In Your Shoebox?
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We all have a part of our past that we try to keep buried, right? Most of it is relatively harmless but embarrassing nonetheless. Like the picture of you in the 8th grade wearing braces and a mullet that MacGyver would have been proud of? Or that poem you wrote to your girlfriend your junior year of high school?
Some of that stuff gets thrown away but if we’re lucky we manage to stuff it away in a box somewhere to laugh about later. I recently discovered this video series on Mortified called The Mortified Shoebox Show. In this episode Felicia Day (actress from one of my favorite online film series, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog) shares about some of her more embarrassing memories and mementos.
This got me thinking about my box of memories I still have up at my parent’s house. I called it my “Life Box.” It was where I kept little trinkets and memories from my childhood adventures. I have a hockey puck that I caught at a Flint Generals hockey game back in 1992, my stamp and coin collection, rocks I collected in Yellowstone National Park on a family vacation.
I wasn’t into sports so I have medals from stuff like public speaking competitions instead of basketball games. I even have a cassette tape from my first “sermon” that I preached to a little boom-box cassette recorder as a kid (I sounded suspiciously like Chuck Swindoll).
Just for fun, let’s share some childhood memories. If we were to pull out that shoebox you kept as a kid, what kind of stuff would we find in there?
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1992 Starting Lineup USA Dream Team figurines, lots of baseball cards, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? tape (by Rockapella), rock collection, and a stuffed Alf.
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92 Dream Team figurines? Sweet! I love it. And a stuffed Alf…nothing says 80s like Alf.
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My shoebox is full of “scandalous” notes from friends in junior high (everything is scandalous when you’re 14), the first roses I received from a boy, movie stubs, etc… but the best item in there? My head gear…
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Wow Sarah, I’m impressed…you still have the first roses you received from a boy? And major props for keeping your head gear after all these years. Awesome.
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Found you via a mention on Mary’s blog, Giving Up On Perfect.
For me, there are too many items to list, really, and they fill to the brim a large blue chest vs. a shoebox. I have everything from my favorite stuffed animal (early childhood days) to my team gymnastics uniform (junior high) to all of the hand-made Mother’s Day cards from my daughters. Priceless.