Times change

For one of my church Young Women projects when I was in high school, I decided to make a resource file that I could use to prepare talks and lessons.  I spent hours and hours copying talks and books and putting them in nice little hanging file folders, alphabetized by subject.  Like this:

This baby has moved to four states and ten different homes with me.  It is well traveled.

But it has never been used.  Because right after I came up with my fabulous idea for a resource file, the internet became widely available.  And it's much easier to google any of these topics than to flip through my file folders.  So, today I decided it was time to say good-bye.  I emptied it out.  Sorted the talks into a "scratch paper" pile and a "recycle" pile.  Saved about five talks out of sentimentality.  And tried to figure out something useful to do with a now empty portable file folder.