Moving On

After 30 years of living in my old house, I'm moving to an apartment!  One of the most time-consuming things I'm doing to prepare to move is going back over my life by reviewing photos (thousands!) and files (hundreds!)

One of the files I'm reviewing tonight concerns the publication of my first quilting book "The Patchwork Quilt Design & Coloring Book" published in 1977.  

I couldn't resist sharing this photo with you because it shows how things were done in 1977.  When you wanted to share something with fellow employees, you created a "Routing Slip" that was stapled to the item and included a list of initials who needed to know this information.  Once the person saw it, they would cross off their initials, put it in their "out-box" and the mail guy would pick it up and put it into the next "in-box" of the person on the list.  And this would continue until it eventually was returned to the person who sent it in the first place.

The list was always prepared with a pecking list -- most important person to least important person.  That way, if you were on the list, you always knew where you stood in the corporation.

It took months for information to be shared in the old days.  I'm not convinced that wasn't a good thing!