A 40+ year old notecard that once belonged to my grandmother. I know that it has to have been printed between 1965 and 1969 because it has the apartment’s address. My grandfather bought Apt. 2024 in 1965 (and died soon after). And my grandmother remarried in 1969, changing her last name to Weinhouse in the process, so it couldn’t have been any later than that.

These days, I’m using the cards for to-do lists. They’re made from nice, sturdy card stock and though they bear my current address, I find it somehow morbid to cross my grandmother’s name off and insert mine in order to use them. So notes and lists it is.