Who keeps those?
A very organized ambitious young man who didn’t have a computer back then. Ever heard of a planner?
my mother kept calendars for YEARS marked up with menus she served at dinner parties, to house guests, at cocktail parties along with guest lists. Kavanaugh was on a career track - with college interviews, applications etc, where details like this count. also i suspect he will write books going forward. so not surprised. at. all.
They're being "prepared" for future public office, and one of the things they're probably taught to do is keep calendars. It might have been a class assignment, too, and counted towards his grade.
-PJ
If you watched Kavanaugh during the hearings, he is an inveterate note-taker. He writes everything down and probably saves it. I guess it is an odd habit that seems to have paid off.
My husband. I can ask him what we did on a certain date and he can go back. Anal, I know but he has been able to use it to an advantage more than once.
“who keeos those”
Anybody with an (R) after his name who wants any kind of career in law or politics apparently should
The kind of person who geeks out on details and develops intellectual habits that lead to the Supreme Court.
If these are hand-written, that's excellent. The writing and paper can be verified for how old they are.
I did from post college. Lost some calendars due to flooding at home or office. They don’t take much space. A decade of calendars is still very thin
Organized families who pass on the “vice” to their kids.
Some grow up to become Supreme Court Justices. ;)
As a matter of fact, a nurse, just last week, mentioned to me that she had kept all her marked up calendars starting from hight school to current. She is about thirty-five.
Huh...Didn’t every 17 year old guy keep a Calendar...? ESP during the Summer?
LOL, I used to use those pocket calendars that were leather and you could stick them in your back pocket...I had about ten years of them beginning in 1985 and just threw them out earlier this year!
I lived on those things for a while.
Good question. Why would anyone keep a calendar from 36 years ago? But then my mom kept a coloring book of birds I did in 1967.
A very methodical person who is career driven and learned to take notes while in High School. That is why he is very organized and will make a great justice.
I have diaries from teenage years, especially age 15+. I spent a year abroad and tried to detail it pretty meticulously, and came back senior year still in the habit. Of somebody as high achieving as Kavanaugh, this is not surprising at all. I’ve kept all diaries from age 13 on.
Who keeps those?
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My husband. He uses punchhole day planners and at the end of every month, puts the used ones in a file and inserts the new month’s. He has boxes of client files that go back 23 years and portfolios of projects from his years in commercial art and jewelry. Every house project has its own file of plans, materials lists and receipts.
He keeps receipts, cancelled checks, owners manuals, a few newspaper clips that had meaning and has always been a photographer, so we have rolls of negatives, boxes of slides, all the old media and prints. He kept his old hard drives.
We are downsizing, so much of that has been triaged just this year. He is 67 and just discarded paperwork from the 1970s a few years ago.
I think it is genetic. His father died in 1994 and had memorabilia, including tax receipts, newspapers and letters, etc from the 1950s plus items from pre-WWII Norway. His mother passed in the ‘80s and she had kept the boys’ old toys, school projects, recipes, newspaper clippings, personal letters, holiday cards and actual diaries. We have scrapbooks and diaries from his maternal grandmother. We may have a few items left from his Norwegian grandparents, pre-WWI.
Some people are very organized and value such record-keeping. Me, OTOH: I live in the moment and have a tiny little collection of papers and such from my past 75 years. When I triaged my art portfolios, my husband snuck out some of the discards and squirreled them away.
A logical mind with an appreciation for history, a connection to identity and a sense of personal culture is what I associate with this behavior.
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You might be surprised by what people keep. I am a life-long bookkeeper/accounting person. I bought my first house in 1966, when the capital gains tax structures on personal residences were entirely different than today’s structure. Since then, I bought a house in 1989, another in 2005, and inherited one in 1980. The capital gains tax structures were changed in 1994.
I have my tax records & supporting documents all the way back to 1963. Was talking with a friend last week about trying to reconstruct ALL the events I rode while doing long distance horse events called endurance. When I started that sport, the main organization did NOT keep records of rides under 50 miles in length. Today, they award lifetime miles to those shorter events. I wanted to detail ALL my rides.
I mentioned that I am confused about how many events I entered/finished in 1986. He was laughing at me....You have those expense records for 1986? he said. I said I have things back to 1963. He quit laughing.
I'd guess studious intellectual types, as I'm confident the hell raisers and party goers would not maintain calendars and notes during their high school years. But who really knows! ☺
I do. For decades. And I have them all.
A very organized person who will become a premiere judge and be nominated to SCOTUS some day...