Finding stuff you haven't seen for a while sure can evoke old memories. This just happened to me over the weekend while cleaning out drawers (Operation Getting Organized 2018 is underway) when I came across a pendant that I've had since childhood. My family used to travel around to arts & crafts shows when I was a kid. My Mom made/sold plaques and my great-grandfather, who we called Dad Berry, made/sold walking canes. We'd go to quaint towns in Ark like Heber Springs and Eureka Springs to hock our fare. It was super fun as a kid to work at the booth and also go around to the other vendors to seek out handcrafted stuff to add to my wishlist. My favorites were the candle and jewelry makers. Anyway, it was love at first sight when I spotted this necklace. I wanted it so badly, like that 3-year old in Target who wants a toy (sans the crying). Sadly, I had no money and that was that. Fast forward a few months to what probably was my 10th b-day when my brothers gave me my g
Over the weekend, I decided to finally sell my old work phone, an iPhone 5, white, 16 GB Sprint device. I had some videos and photo content on there so have been procrastinating getting the phone ready to sell. This, by the way, is one of the top reasons folks have told us in the past why they don't sell back or recycle an old phone. They don't want to lose the data on the phone. I was no exception to this. However, cloud-based storage platforms like iCloud, in my case, are (sort of) easing some of the concerns. For instance, I was confident that my photos and contacts were being saved to the cloud, but I was less confident about my videos. Therefore, I ended up moving all of the content to an external hard drive--to be on the safe side (Note: my World Series videos from October were on that phone and are more than priceless to me.) So, after about an hour of fiddling around and moving content, I was ready to "clean" the device. I had to ensure he Find My iPhone fea