In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Quote:Eastern Europe. But mine is QUITE altered from the originals, and there are many existing variations already! Many recipes are just milk with salt and/ or sugar and possibly some butter; some have things you add in, like hard-boiled eggs. Most recipes don't have potatoes, if they use anything at all it's rice or egg noodles, or flour as a thickener; and the addition of celery, thyme and turkey meatballs is all mine.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hmm... what region?
The Polish version is called zupa mleczna.
Eastern European Milk Soup
https://www.thespruceeats.com/eastern-european-milk-soup-recipes-11363
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Great-Great Grandma's Milk Soup
Polish Classic Cooking
http://www.polishclassiccooking.com/2011/01/great-great-grandmas-milk-
soup.html
How to Make Milk Soup
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Milk-Soup
Polish Milk Soup
https://polishforums.com/food/milk-soup-3432/
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Quote:I hope these were kept in a good, safe place.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
... letters from London to my mom when they first started writing to each other ... I was also on the lookout for stock certificates or bearer bonds or accounts that appeared to have been opened but not closed.
But going thru all of these old papers gave me insight into what they had been going thru ... steroid injections for rotator cuff and bursitis, hopeful and cautious courtship by mail, slow progession into Parkinson's .. snapshots of a life that will never be duplicated ...
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Years ago, I had kept everything. Like every receipt I had, even if it was for goodwill or the dollar store. Every monthly bill that I had paid. Before I purged the house around 4 years ago, I had boxes upon boxes of this stuff. Now I'd say everything I've kept until now would fit into two cardboard office boxes.
But going 4 years without ever going into that stuff for anything other than my birth certificate and SS card for jobs, it puts into perspective how unneeded most of it is.
Things I'll be keeping are the SS card, birth certificate, high school diploma, a folder about how many college credits I have and in what subjects/what years, car title, all house purchase documents and a folder with all of the info on the property taxes after fighting for nearly a year to have them cut in half.
Oh... and 7 years of income tax returns.
You should check the statute of limitations on that in Canada and your locality before throwing any income tax stuff out, Brenda. Here in America, although you can only go back and audit your own taxes 3 years to report that they owe you more, they have 7 years to go back and audit your taxes.
Granted, most people in our situations likely won't ever get audited. I mean, it's possible that I did once because they contacted me and sent me a 2nd check because I had undervalued the Earned Income Credit I should have gotten one year, but I don't think that was an audit because they apparently have a team that specifically does that since you have the option to check a box and have the government figure the credit for you.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I will check that out but that is why I am keeping my mom's last tax return filed after she died.
That's why we kept my dad's discharge papers after he died so she could apply for part of his military pension.
I have my high school diploma and other old things. My dad's parents marriage license.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I know I mentioned this before, but when I visited momI spent several days sorting thru boxes and boxes and boxes her hers and dad's old papers. It was something of a favor to the executor of the will and something of an asset chase ... dad used to chase highest interest rates and opened and closed a crap-ton of money market accounts at one time, so as I was sorting thru the papers ... "this is not a bill" insurance statements from 1992 ... letters from London to my mom when they first started writing to each other ... I was also on the lookout for stock certificates or bearer bonds or accounts that appeared to have been opened but not closed.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I hear you Six. I've got a few old papers of my mom's still around that need to be shredded. Tax stuff and her old medical cards, my dad's OLD medical card. I was thinking on doing some of that tomorrow.
Good luck. Hope you get it done.
I got a huge stack of old credit cards and other things that I've never gotten rid of too. I'll have to see if I got something I could just melt them in that's safe when I get around to burning everything.
I'm probably not going to do it tomorrow. I might as well keep doing the other stuff I'm doing and make sure that I have all of that together and just do it once.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I should be able too. Back in the day before computers you never thought about getting rid of this stuff. My mom may have thought she'd need my dad's stuff. But I certainly don't need that type of material any more.
Death certificates and birth certificates along with their marriage licence when I find it I will keep. My mom's last tax return I've kept. But other stuff I can easily shred. I'll do it little by little because some of it is my stuff too, that I no longer need.
The stuff my mom kept and some of it I haven't seen in ages so it needs to be sorted through to make sure it can be shredded.
But going thru all of these old papers gave me insight into what they had been going thru ... steroid injections for rotator cuff and bursitis, hopeful and cautious courtship by mail, slow progession into Parkinson's .. snapshots of a life that will never be duplicated ... so will we all fare.
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That is a good idea Sig. But my problem was that my stuff got boxed up after she died and I never really got to go through it.
Of course my mom also had so many pictures too. And the negatives have to be specially recycled. Local drug store that also sells computers, tvs and still does photo developing will take them once I find them all.
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I think what I'm saying, SIX, is ... save some of yourself. When you get old you can look through them and be reminded of the person you were. And then when you die others can go thru them too, and think about the person who was.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think what I'm saying, SIX, is ... save some of yourself. When you get old you can look through them and be reminded of the person you were. And then when you die others can go thru them too, and think about the person who was.
I hear ya. I'm not going to be saving much though. What I buy isn't who I am.
I've got a lot of artwork back when I was younger. Dumb me wanted to be "an artist" when I grew up. Been a long time since I've ever done any of that. I won't get rid of stuff like that.
Had two huge boxes of comics I've always meant to sort through. My brother says he'll take any of them I'm getting rid of, even the crap we bought as kids that ain't worth a buck a piece.
I'm going to hold on to most of what my old man gave me as a kid. Back then, those mags were only 20 to 25 years old. They're a lot older now. Apparently, some of them are worth a pretty decent buck too. Not that I'm going to take the time to sell them all individually on e-bay, but a "keep" pile that's about the size of half of a box you get reams of paper in would go for about $3,000 going by the prices that they were recently sold for.
They were all junk when my old man would give them to us as Christmas presents. I figured I'd be just getting rid of the whole lot of them save for maybe a handful. It seems that the books from the 50's and 60's are getting harder to come by these days.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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There are some thngs that really bring back memories for me ... clothes, and check registers. I pick up one of dear daughter's t-shirts or dresses from when she was a toddler, and I remember the weight of her, her sturdy body in my hands when I'd toss her into the air, or how she would peel off her socks because she hated anything on her feet. Or hubby's polyester slacks, which is what he was wearing when we first met. Or the check register, which shows the checks I wrote toour very first apartment in LA. What an idiot I was back then! Always reacting, never thinking ahead. Well, time has revealed a few more fatal flaws in my psyche!
I don't save everything, but I save a few things.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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I've got a box of stuff that is mostly stuff from ex girlfriends. Pictures, things we'd write to each other, mix tapes, stuff they bought me, ticket stubs for movies and concerts we saw... things like that. I haven't looked in that thing for years. The last time I did, I remember it was the first time that besides the pictures I didn't remember half of it. It's in a real nice box that I could put some of my power tools for the move. Might be time for one last trip down memory lane...
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Well, I was dummkopf today. Went out again without my medical alert on. Didn't notice I didn't have it until I sat down with a cup of coffee somewhere.
Happens every so often.
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Getting closer...
Still waiting on garbage day bogging me down since my 3 cans are full. Doesn't mean that I can't continue to throw crap out, just that it's got to sit in bags until the cans are emptied. Most of the stuff I've put out on the street since last garbage day has been taken except for a large mirror that was part of a piece of furniture I'd gotten rid of a long time ago. I've got another similar one that I need to put out there that is much nicer that I got from my uncle years back, but without any of the furniture. I've definitely got no need for things like that and I should never have taken it in the first place. I'll probably put it out tonight to give people two days to take it before the garbage men come.
Gotten through about 2/3rds of my documents. Comics are all figured out. I'm keeping one box and giving the rest to my bro. I've got a lot of collectible cards from back in the day. My brother's taking all of the comic book related ones. Might pitch the baseball cards. I dunno... Maybe I'll look through them, but crap like that from the 80's and early 90's really have no real-world value.
All the bad/small hard drives are destroyed and gone. Good drives and thumb-drives have all the data consolidated and have been wiped and checked for errors. Now all I have to do on that front is start sorting through stuff, getting rid of things I don't need and backing up what I do want.
Kitchen and living room looking less and less like a hoard since I'm running out of stuff to put out there to work on. Basement is cleared out except for workout equipment and the washer/dryer. Attic is about 90% cleared out except for the stuff that's packed and ready to go. Garage is in great shape too, but there is still quite a bit to sort through and pitch even though I've finally got my workbench back and enough space to almost park two cars in there.
Going to help my friend on his rental house this weekend for a few days. Build up a sense of obligation on his part so we can get my porch fixed finally. :)
No racoons or other animals in the house for weeks too. 
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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