Steve is a coupon angel. If he cuts out a coupon he can't use, he leaves it on the item in the store so someone else will find it. And if he has one of those "$4 off if you spend $50" coupons that will expire before he spends $50, he looks for somebody with a full cart and gives it to them. This week he's been cleaning his book shelf and found a 1924 cookbook from a Lutheran church in Chicago. He emailed them and they are celebrating a centennial so they are tickled to receive the book he's mailing to them. He's also dropping off an 1892 physics book at the high school in Traverse City where he lives. He said the book was in a summer cottage his parents bought from a Creston teacher. He's also going to stop by the Metropolitan Life Insurance office and drop off a 1924 manual for Metropolitan Life agents that his mother, who worked for Met Life before she was married, must have saved. Isn't he an angel?
Love your portrait of him, Sue. (ps: does he have a single brother? LoL!)
ReplyDeleteIf Steve had a single brother, Pam, I would have tried to nab him.
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if resourceful Steve knows of a place that would appreciate a leather-bound, gold-leafed set of Hawkins electrical manuals, circa 1930. The illustrations are fantastic and set is in near perfect shape. Someone gave them (there are about a dozen volumes) to my Dad, an electrical contractor, when I was a kid. I'd love to place them with a trade museum, or at least someone who would deeply appreciate them. Any ideas?
Steve says it sounds like it is worth money. He'll check into it and get back to you. Money is good!
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