I post from a small seacoast city in northern New England, where I really do have a small barn packed with mementos of my lifetime journey from my native Ohio to the Pacific Northwest and then back east.
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I do still use the phone book from time to time. However, it has shrunk so in size that I need a magnifying glass to read the phone numbers! LOL
We are schooling at home at the moment (due to the pandemic); the teacher set an exercise that involved looking up words in the dictionary, and I had to teach kiddo to use an online one, because we certainly no longer have a hard copy dictionary on our bookshelves!
I do still use the phone book from time to time. However, it has shrunk so in size that I need a magnifying glass to read the phone numbers! LOL
Definitely a problem!
We are schooling at home at the moment (due to the pandemic); the teacher set an exercise that involved looking up words in the dictionary, and I had to teach kiddo to use an online one, because we certainly no longer have a hard copy dictionary on our bookshelves!
Suppose that’s a hard confession to make, but I’ll forgive you. I still need my Spanish-English ones …