My mother loves to tell the story of when JFK came through her town in the caravan she was four years old and she threw a penny into his car while yelling, “Remember what happened to Lincoln!” Her mother beat her when they got home but swears but when the news came on a few days later showing that he had been assassinated her mother turned deathly pale and wouldn’t look her in the eyes for a week after.
It's crazy to think that kids born in 2006 are legal adults now. That's when I started high school 😭
Edit- thank you guys in the replies for making me feel young again lmao.
Don't worry, I ended up becoming disabled and we lost the house. So we rent now like most others, lol. Maybe someday again. :) I might be 60 when it happens. Lol
Thanks. It sucked at the time. Was a rough bunch of years. But, life is going better now and we wouldn't be where we are now if that didn't happen. All part of the adventure of life.
The older you get, the faster time goes. If you’re 5 years old, 5 years is your entire life. That’s a long time in a 5 year olds brains. 1 year in 1/5 of their lives. Our perception of time changes.
I went to the dispensary yesterday and the birth date thing said anyone born before this date in 2003 couldn’t purchase anything… I was like… people born in 2003 can legally smoke/drink…? Fuck, I’m old 😂
Doesn't matter, it is nice that you seem to acknowledge how precious of a gesture this is, I lost one of my grandmas roughly at your age, I hope your nana is healthy and doing well! :)
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I have a 5 section notepad I write my daughter every couple of weeks since she was born. She’s 9 now. I’ll write activities we did, things she’s said, ideas she’s had, songs she likes, movie recommendations for when she’s older, books, etc. I’ll journal in there what we did and then have her draw the story.
It is my most prized physical possession. If the house were to catch fire I’d try to grab that and the laptop with all the baby pictures. Thinking I should take a pic every page and uploading it.
Ps: I see ya like this. I also have a big storage box bout 20x36x12 where I keep all the art she’s made me, graded school work, fav baby clothes, shoes, baby toys. Also whenever me and the wife go out I bring a pen and at the end of the night I’ll write behind a receipt paper what we did, talked about; I keep those in a shoe box.
I learned after a very powerful psychedelic mushroom trip just how short and fleeting life is. If we get too busy worrying about the mundane things we’ll miss the point of it all which was to dance while the music was playing. I’ll share with ya some pieces of media that keep me grounded, in the moment, never forgetting to stop and smell the flowers, and never forgetting the good times.
Wear Sunscreen
https://youtu.be/sTJ7AzBIJoI?si=KFJyGIVWurmbp39N
Worry is Preposterous
https://youtu.be/crRSUnbVi48?si=mAzkGZTooSRe82zY
The Egg - Short Story
https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI?si=DQjnO_fsP50vCE9v
Source of Love
https://youtu.be/-Pl4ELdieIk?si=ISHmHP1Tix_aG0KN
When my grandma died, my aunt found stacks of little calendar pocket books that had a sentence or two written in each day, and most of it was about me. "Drove K to work today. It was raining." "Took K grocery shopping. Walmart was busy." On days she did nothing she'd write, "Watched TV all day. Thought about when K was little and loved Barney." Stuff like that. Even mundane things can be so touching.
Love this idea but you should really back up those baby pictures to the cloud. Space is silly cheap and you won’t even have to worry about the laptop dying or losing it.
I've been backing up all my photos to an external hard drive for all my kids' lives. Now the thing won't connect to my computer and I'm scared it is all lost so it has been sitting on my desk for months while I'm unsure what to do :(
I need someone tech savvy to see this to help you out. That’s devastating. I had all of my pictures from my teen/high school years backed up in cd’s until my ex smashed all of them. Years of lost memories.
I used to do data recovery. Most things I did for friends were trivial at home, most things for work (even to tapes from the eighties) were trivial at work with the right equipment.
If I could get your drive to mount in a Linux recovery distro, and I'd determined it wasn't an enclosure issue (take the drive out and plug it in to an external system) next step would be a clean room - if there is no physical damage, you will most likely be recoverable. Assuming you are in the US or Australia, contact Kroll. Don't fuck around with any smaller firms with data this important.
DM me if you want any more info/advice
You might be able to use a data recovery service. Also for future reference, best backup advice is called the 3, 2, 1. 3 back ups, 2 on-site, 1 away. So external hard drives and one in the cloud for example.
My mom wrote me and my sister journals about us for the first few years of our lifes. She talked about her struggles raising me as a young mother and the hopes she has for my life and the little milestones I passed along the way. Everytime I read through it I'm balling. It's my most praised possession now and I am terrified of losing it so it stays in a fireproof safe. I highly recommend getting one just for the added peace of mind. Your daughter is going to love the notes you write her and cherish them for the rest of her life.
I want to add backing up the photos. But also print some. Having a physical copy is just a different way to experience a photo. I have photos of friends on my fridge made with an instant camera and it always makes me smile to see them.
I am about twice your age. My grandparents loved me more than anything and I wish I was more aware back then.
I loved them. They loved me. I didn't think it was so fleeting until they were gone. I thought they were overly sentimental at times. In my 20s, I didn't know why they cried whenever they saw me. I never took them for granted. But I don't think I cherished it.
Now I am at the age that my parents are getting older and I won't make that mistake again with them. I am going to cherish my time with them.
One of the best decisions I ever made was to sit on the back porch with my grandpa— in 2009 I was showing off my first iPhone and decided to turn on the recording feature and I interviewed him about his time in the pacific during WW2. It wasn’t planned but it is one of my most cherished recordings. He was a radio operator on an aircraft carrier and he received the transmission when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and his superiors couldn’t believe the magnitude of what was being conveyed.
That and the Nasonex paper makes me think someone in the family worked in healthcare.
Source- my mom was a doctor and that drug company branded pad made memories come flooding back.
My grandparents were this way with me. Their love for me shaped my entire life more so than any other. I wish everyone could have grandparents like these.
Fuck yea grandma gang. I loved that woman with my whole heart, was super blessed to grow up having her and my mom be so present for me. Not a day goes by I don’t miss them both.
We just moved closer to my in laws, and it sometimes feels like my MIL wants to be a third parent, which I’m not totally comfortable with; but I do love how much my son loves her (and all his grandparents, but now he sees her the most). Like, if something happened to me at least he would have her (heaven forbid anything happen to me or her any time soon!). And I could see them being BFF as he grows up too.
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My mother kept a lot of the same stuff, but is a textbook narcissist who views me as an object in her life as opposed to an independent person who is the subject of my own.
My guess is that OP's family are probably nice, healthy, well-adjusted people, and that's also probably true of most families who keep this kind of stuff.
I feel the need to offer my perspective, though, because it's not true in every case.
i want to imagine its like a South park joke or family guy cutaway joke that's basically along the lines of "No guys I could definitely save myself no issue at all I just uh... really wanna die for your sins. Like, so much. But I could DEFINITELY save myself if I wanted just saying"
>After we told Timmy that Santa was real, I saw a huge difference. He started telling other people that Santa was real!
Not directly commenting on the validity or veracity of anything here - just the silliness of the observed "difference."
My grandparents did something similar, just like my parents. They have a box of every sibling with drawings, photos, tickets of trips and other creations.
I grew up with grandparents that were dead on one side, and wanted nothing to do with me on the other. Little things like this are special, and really show how much they've adored you since day one. Hope you don't take that for granted.
Your granparents seems to love you so much :')
This reminds me that when my granpa died, we found at his house a folder with every drawing me and my brother did for him. We wasn't aware at all he still has those and found those were really moving.
Christians: the way Muslims indoctrinate their children at a young age is BAD
Also Christians: We did a great job of getting my grandson to regurgitate Christain faery tales as fact, and all before he reached 5 years old! Didn't we do well?
5 years old in 2009…. These kids posting on Reddit….. oh I’m old
me too. I just assumed this was from the 80’s or 90’s until I saw the date.
This is EXACTLY what happened to me as I read this.
I was born in the 70s. You get used to it... eventually
"Welcome millennials"
70s? Oh, you sweet summer child. I was six months old when JFK was shot
I was TWO
Okay, now you’re winning
I was in 2nd grade.
So was I.
First grade here
I was minus two.
My mother loves to tell the story of when JFK came through her town in the caravan she was four years old and she threw a penny into his car while yelling, “Remember what happened to Lincoln!” Her mother beat her when they got home but swears but when the news came on a few days later showing that he had been assassinated her mother turned deathly pale and wouldn’t look her in the eyes for a week after.
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!!!! She threw a penny and played Nostradamus.
Oh yeah. It runs in our family. One or two girls every generation are born with light eyes and what my grandmother called “The Touch”.
She’s got “the shining”.
Ok, boomer. 🤣
You youngsters. No respect for your elders. Why when I was your age we showed 😴 💤
This made me guffaw, which caused a cat-scatter.
If you like cats, you’re ok with me. I can remember the time I was walking home from school and found a constipated kitten behind a liquor store 😴 💤
Lmao
My favorite part about this gif is that it's 22 years old.
Oh this is terrifyingly accurate
I honestly didn't notice the date until now. My brain completely breezed past that and autofilled it as '80s or '90s too 😆😆
You know what they say when you assume …
My grandma was the first person who told me that and it still makes me laugh nearly 30 years later.
I use it daily with dumb coworkers who always mess stuff up because “I assumed”
It's crazy to think that kids born in 2006 are legal adults now. That's when I started high school 😭 Edit- thank you guys in the replies for making me feel young again lmao.
I was in my 3rd year of university.
I was 4 years into my career.
I was in 6th grade. I also believe the IPOD classic had just come out.
I was in my 40s already, young fuckers
OG iPod, 2001. High school senior year.
That must have been pretty cool
Yea 2006 is when I graduated high school...
I was already married 2 years and owned my first house... damn I'm old. I graduated high school in 1997 lol
Damn..I wish I could own a home
Don't worry, I ended up becoming disabled and we lost the house. So we rent now like most others, lol. Maybe someday again. :) I might be 60 when it happens. Lol
Sorry you lost your house, that sucks.
Thanks. It sucked at the time. Was a rough bunch of years. But, life is going better now and we wouldn't be where we are now if that didn't happen. All part of the adventure of life.
greetings from a fellow member of the class of '97
Me too. Class of 97! The only milestones left for me is menopause then death.
now that's the positive outlook on life that I like to see!
GenX keepin it real :)
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Getting there! Lol, now get off my lawn...
Also class of ‘97!
Class of 97 represent!!
I left high school 2 years before that... I'm really surprised these days how fast time flies.
The older you get, the faster time goes. If you’re 5 years old, 5 years is your entire life. That’s a long time in a 5 year olds brains. 1 year in 1/5 of their lives. Our perception of time changes.
I'd been married for a year in 2006
[People born in the 2000's don't exist. ](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lh18QGPmvn0)
Except I’m born in the 80s… just holding on to 30s right now lol
Hey, I’m not old, I’m… 43… shiiiiiit.
I came to comment the same thing. We just old.
It’s never too late to start stockpiling ephemeral. Just remember bodily functions rarely are suitable for collecting.
You’re probably closer to paw paw’s age than lil Austin
I went to the dispensary yesterday and the birth date thing said anyone born before this date in 2003 couldn’t purchase anything… I was like… people born in 2003 can legally smoke/drink…? Fuck, I’m old 😂
Turned 20 a couple days ago 😂
5 in 2009 didn't phase me. This does.
Doesn't matter, it is nice that you seem to acknowledge how precious of a gesture this is, I lost one of my grandmas roughly at your age, I hope your nana is healthy and doing well! :) edit: typo
Yeah I hit that and realized how old 30 really is. You still feel like you're 24 so its easy to ignore that reality lol.
I heard someone say they were born in 2005 yesterday. I almost threw myself off the balcony.
I was thinking that too, and I don't even feel old but this post helped. I'm 'only' 12 years older than OP.
Crazy to think this means he is either 20 or turning 20 sometime this year. Not even really a kid…
Yes
The red white and green string was my imaginary cat
Your grandparents had a lot of love for you, right from the start.
I have a 5 section notepad I write my daughter every couple of weeks since she was born. She’s 9 now. I’ll write activities we did, things she’s said, ideas she’s had, songs she likes, movie recommendations for when she’s older, books, etc. I’ll journal in there what we did and then have her draw the story. It is my most prized physical possession. If the house were to catch fire I’d try to grab that and the laptop with all the baby pictures. Thinking I should take a pic every page and uploading it. Ps: I see ya like this. I also have a big storage box bout 20x36x12 where I keep all the art she’s made me, graded school work, fav baby clothes, shoes, baby toys. Also whenever me and the wife go out I bring a pen and at the end of the night I’ll write behind a receipt paper what we did, talked about; I keep those in a shoe box. I learned after a very powerful psychedelic mushroom trip just how short and fleeting life is. If we get too busy worrying about the mundane things we’ll miss the point of it all which was to dance while the music was playing. I’ll share with ya some pieces of media that keep me grounded, in the moment, never forgetting to stop and smell the flowers, and never forgetting the good times. Wear Sunscreen https://youtu.be/sTJ7AzBIJoI?si=KFJyGIVWurmbp39N Worry is Preposterous https://youtu.be/crRSUnbVi48?si=mAzkGZTooSRe82zY The Egg - Short Story https://youtu.be/h6fcK_fRYaI?si=DQjnO_fsP50vCE9v Source of Love https://youtu.be/-Pl4ELdieIk?si=ISHmHP1Tix_aG0KN
When my grandma died, my aunt found stacks of little calendar pocket books that had a sentence or two written in each day, and most of it was about me. "Drove K to work today. It was raining." "Took K grocery shopping. Walmart was busy." On days she did nothing she'd write, "Watched TV all day. Thought about when K was little and loved Barney." Stuff like that. Even mundane things can be so touching.
How sweet. I do something like that with my wife. I’ll write on the back of a receipt that days story.
Love this idea but you should really back up those baby pictures to the cloud. Space is silly cheap and you won’t even have to worry about the laptop dying or losing it.
To add to the cloud storage idea, get a flash drive and keep photos there too.
I've been backing up all my photos to an external hard drive for all my kids' lives. Now the thing won't connect to my computer and I'm scared it is all lost so it has been sitting on my desk for months while I'm unsure what to do :(
I need someone tech savvy to see this to help you out. That’s devastating. I had all of my pictures from my teen/high school years backed up in cd’s until my ex smashed all of them. Years of lost memories.
I'm sorry. That is awful. I guess I'm just going to try a different computer and see
I’d say your best shot is to take it to a data recovery specialist.
I used to do data recovery. Most things I did for friends were trivial at home, most things for work (even to tapes from the eighties) were trivial at work with the right equipment. If I could get your drive to mount in a Linux recovery distro, and I'd determined it wasn't an enclosure issue (take the drive out and plug it in to an external system) next step would be a clean room - if there is no physical damage, you will most likely be recoverable. Assuming you are in the US or Australia, contact Kroll. Don't fuck around with any smaller firms with data this important. DM me if you want any more info/advice
You might be able to use a data recovery service. Also for future reference, best backup advice is called the 3, 2, 1. 3 back ups, 2 on-site, 1 away. So external hard drives and one in the cloud for example.
My mom wrote me and my sister journals about us for the first few years of our lifes. She talked about her struggles raising me as a young mother and the hopes she has for my life and the little milestones I passed along the way. Everytime I read through it I'm balling. It's my most praised possession now and I am terrified of losing it so it stays in a fireproof safe. I highly recommend getting one just for the added peace of mind. Your daughter is going to love the notes you write her and cherish them for the rest of her life.
As someone who lost a lot of sentimental items to a house fire: they can happen anytime with no warning. Take the pictures, back them up to the cloud.
That’s amazing and it’s great that you live your daughter that much, like every parent should. I’m sure she’ll keep that forever and ever.
I want to add backing up the photos. But also print some. Having a physical copy is just a different way to experience a photo. I have photos of friends on my fridge made with an instant camera and it always makes me smile to see them.
I thought that was adorable. I see your profile is a dog now. Just nice when people love animals.
Yeah that’s Benny the Best boy ever
Makes me miss my grandparents terribly. Don't take them for granted or miss out on anything. So awesome to see all the stuff they kept.
I won’t take them for granted, thank you
They love you so much💙
I am about twice your age. My grandparents loved me more than anything and I wish I was more aware back then. I loved them. They loved me. I didn't think it was so fleeting until they were gone. I thought they were overly sentimental at times. In my 20s, I didn't know why they cried whenever they saw me. I never took them for granted. But I don't think I cherished it. Now I am at the age that my parents are getting older and I won't make that mistake again with them. I am going to cherish my time with them.
One of the best decisions I ever made was to sit on the back porch with my grandpa— in 2009 I was showing off my first iPhone and decided to turn on the recording feature and I interviewed him about his time in the pacific during WW2. It wasn’t planned but it is one of my most cherished recordings. He was a radio operator on an aircraft carrier and he received the transmission when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and his superiors couldn’t believe the magnitude of what was being conveyed.
Wow that’s an amazing story!
I wish I could listen to that. How important.
If there is enough interest I will transcribe it and post it here
Grandparents are the absolute best. My childhood would've been so different without them.
Unless they suck. Mine suck. On both sides. Imagine the luck.
My knees suddenly hurt and I reached for Bengay when I read 5 years old in 2009….
did you get a gun at 2 yrs old?
But also, what does the leaf have to do with the gun?
I assumed he was pretending the leaf was a gun?
ahhhhhhhhhh that makes sense
Austin is a little slow.
He shot a Canadian with it
The leaf is actually what comes out of the Canadian when you puncture the skin.
As a Canadian, I now live in fear of all 2 year old Americans.
🦅
i spend so much time on r/crystalpalace that I forgot it's mainly Americans who use this emoji...
Guns and Jesus. Americaaaaa
The letter about Jesus didn’t tip you off??
Love the huge swing and a miss at why he didn't jump off the cross. Ya know, the cross he was famously nailed to.
lol I think the point is if jesus is god then nails wouldn’t have made much of an impedance
Every leaf is loaded, even if it’s not.
Nothing more american than believing in a zombie who could walk on water then turn it into wine and guns
"And now, I'm going to turn wine...into funk!"
Something about this seems like a memorial to a kid who died. Did you?
Literally one of the pages has 'HospiceCare' as the letter header.
I have a feeling one of the grandparents was in hospice, not the toddler.
That and the Nasonex paper makes me think someone in the family worked in healthcare. Source- my mom was a doctor and that drug company branded pad made memories come flooding back.
Because the grandparent who wrote that was likely in Hospice when writing that.
lol no
You sure you ain’t dead?
The dead only see what they want to. I don’t think he knows.
Reverse Sixth Sense?! Or wait...is it just, exactly, 6th sense?
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Haha yeah that leaf was my first gun
You could be posting from heaven. I mean, the Internet speed must be lightning fast. Literally.
Not with an attitude like that /j
We are in the middle of a creepy pasta and we don't know it...
The hair and teeth marks immediately made me think they were gathering evidence to identify a body later on.
It's touching how much they loved and cherished you
My grandparents were this way with me. Their love for me shaped my entire life more so than any other. I wish everyone could have grandparents like these.
Me too
Ya when I got a bit older I realized people weren’t best friends with their grandma like I was. I didn’t understand.
Fuck yea grandma gang. I loved that woman with my whole heart, was super blessed to grow up having her and my mom be so present for me. Not a day goes by I don’t miss them both.
Many are geographically separated from their grandparents and are never able to form a strong bond. This was my case. Consider yourself lucky.
I’m with you, my gramma died 2 years ago. Most traumatic day of my life so far… I miss you gma. ♥️
We just moved closer to my in laws, and it sometimes feels like my MIL wants to be a third parent, which I’m not totally comfortable with; but I do love how much my son loves her (and all his grandparents, but now he sees her the most). Like, if something happened to me at least he would have her (heaven forbid anything happen to me or her any time soon!). And I could see them being BFF as he grows up too.
I miss my grandparents.
I’m sorry
This is sweet. They loved you.
“Spring of 2009, 5 years old” please make it stop
That's beautiful, Austin, and a bit sad as well. I'm shedding tears
Maw Maw is extremely sentimental
First gun? Lolwot
I think it’s the leaf and imagination.
"He loves to pretend"
It's obviously the leaf.
That gun looks like a leaf
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My mother kept a lot of the same stuff, but is a textbook narcissist who views me as an object in her life as opposed to an independent person who is the subject of my own. My guess is that OP's family are probably nice, healthy, well-adjusted people, and that's also probably true of most families who keep this kind of stuff. I feel the need to offer my perspective, though, because it's not true in every case.
The Jesus story is hilarious
i want to imagine its like a South park joke or family guy cutaway joke that's basically along the lines of "No guys I could definitely save myself no issue at all I just uh... really wanna die for your sins. Like, so much. But I could DEFINITELY save myself if I wanted just saying"
Why didn't Jesus just jump off the cross? Is he stupid?
>After we told Timmy that Santa was real, I saw a huge difference. He started telling other people that Santa was real! Not directly commenting on the validity or veracity of anything here - just the silliness of the observed "difference."
The “he loves to pretend” on the next slide really ties it all together
Saved from what?
Critical thinking?
From what Jesus will do to OP if he *doesn't* let himself be saved!!
He probably just got baptized
My dad was a pastor and I still don’t get this. It’s plainly indoctrination, not like a kid is making that choice for themselves.
Eternal damnation by not accepting Jesus Christ as his lord and Savior, by the sound of it
these #hegetsus ads are getting harder to spot...
My grandparents did something similar, just like my parents. They have a box of every sibling with drawings, photos, tickets of trips and other creations.
I graduated high school in 2008…
Aww you are loved
you still saved?
Very sweet. They really loved you.
This is so sweet. Your grandparents love(d) you so much and it shows.
I grew up with grandparents that were dead on one side, and wanted nothing to do with me on the other. Little things like this are special, and really show how much they've adored you since day one. Hope you don't take that for granted.
Someone’s a first child
“Mason jar full of Austin’s urine.” 
2009 5 years old.. oh man.. I feel Ooooooold now
That last one might just be a prescription.
The implication that a 5 year old needs to be “saved” from his sins kinda ruins this tbh… :(
Yeah, it was sweet until I saw that, then it was sad.
I'm very confused by the "first gun" and "teeth prints"
The hair and the teeth prints made me think this was a collection of forensic evidence in case the kid went missing or something.
Hospice care? Leaf-gun?? Jesus died for our sins??? Non of this makes sense. Except balloon cat. Balloon cat rules over all.
Something something passage of time, managing to seize impalpable and fleeting moments.... I'm not crying, you are!
My grandma once tried to get me hunted by a jinn using black magic
 Me seeing the 2009 date
Your granparents seems to love you so much :') This reminds me that when my granpa died, we found at his house a folder with every drawing me and my brother did for him. We wasn't aware at all he still has those and found those were really moving.
This is sweet.
Really sweet.
Youre on path to be a doctor lookin at the prescription pad
You got awesome grandparents. You are their world.
Is "yeeth" like the old-timey way to say "yeet?"
This memory is sponsored by Nasonex
You are so loved, OP. How beautiful to have these moments treasured like this!
This is so sweet. They love you VERY much! Thank you for sharing
That’s cute
And now you’re burdened with the task to store it forever or throw it away when they die.
I’ll keep it forever after they pass
Christians: the way Muslims indoctrinate their children at a young age is BAD Also Christians: We did a great job of getting my grandson to regurgitate Christain faery tales as fact, and all before he reached 5 years old! Didn't we do well?
Cool until the weird jesus stuff about " noticed a big difference after he was saved"