{"id":2026,"date":"2009-07-13T06:17:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2009-07-14T06:29:32","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T14:29:32","slug":"shovels-78-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=2026","title":{"rendered":"Shovels 78 Cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is proof that in 1932 you could buy a shovel for 78 cents:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"P7070004\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/3716187967\/p7070004.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2637\/3716187967_57d16e940a.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"P7070004\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Years ago I bought a copy of the 1932 McMaster Carr industrial equipment catalog.\u00a0 It was a part of a small collection of industrial catalogs I had put together.\u00a0 It sat happily on my bookshelf for several decades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Medium\" title=\"P7070003\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/3716187679\/p7070003.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2605\/3716187679_5d52260a4c.jpg?resize=375%2C500\" alt=\"P7070003\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now through a lovely coincidence McMaster Carr 32 is going back to McMaster Carr.\u00a0 My friend Howard R mentioned in passing that his niece, Amy, worked as a manager at McMaster Carr.\u00a0 I immediately offered the book.\u00a0 This morning Amy accepted.\u00a0 For me this is part of my personal divestiture effort, the motto of which is &#8220;Less stuff is more.&#8221;\u00a0 In this case I get a threefer:\u00a0 I will always have the digital photos above to fill my need for nostalgia, my heirs will have one less thing to get rid of when I die and the book will end up in a place where people will get real pleasure from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is proof that in 1932 you could buy a shovel for 78 cents: Years ago I bought a copy of the 1932 McMaster Carr industrial equipment catalog.\u00a0 It was a part of a small collection of industrial catalogs I had put together.\u00a0 It sat happily on my bookshelf for several decades. Now through a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-wG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}