Awards I Used to Care About

I don't mean the blog post title in a depressive manner. Not at all! When a box of random stuff came out of our garage rafters and I saw that it was full of my awards from high school, I laughed. I thought I had already gotten rid of these! Back in my teen years, these were very, very important to me. Now they're irrelevant in my life. I took photographs and am blogging them because that's part of what I do to declutter my life - keep a digital "copy" and get rid of the originals.

One favorite memory of these awards is from thinking of my mom. When Louie and I decided to buy a house in Jordan, my mom was so mad at me that she boxed up all my awards (the only thing I had left at her house besides my wedding dress). It's not terribly logical, but that's what she did. (Both my sisters had a LOT more of their old possessions still at the Aldrich house . . . )

 Top left - I added this to the pile. I got it in District 112 within the last decade, but don't want to keep it.

McDonalds - hard to believe I got these for being a good crew member! The 1980s were different.

Kennedy H.S. - not sure what these were about, but I pried off the metal and plan to sand and re-use the wood forms for other projects.

Voice of Democracy - I competed each year that I knew about the contest and got some bling from the VFW. One year, I won first prize and some money!

Various Speech and Theatre trophies - these were the ones I really cared about as a teenager. The time I spent rehearsing, performing, and competing . . . rivaled time I spent on school work!

Now I'm just ready for them to go away. I hope someone can re-purpose them. I hate sending junk to the landfill if I can avoid it.