30 thoughts on “Tag Team Giveaway & Review for Scraps of Paper by Kathryn Meyer Griffith @KathrynG64”

1. We’ve never found any treasure after moving into a new home, but our friends found a whole pan of ancient, rock-hard brownies hidden away after moving into their new home!

   • LOL I found some old postcards in our house in Rochester New York, but they crumbled in my hands.

2. I feel the same about Kathryn’s writing. Even when she’s writing about everyday things, the story is compelling. She makes you feel:) I can’t wait to share the second book too!

   • Haven’t read that one yet and I always look forward to the next book by her.

3. When I was a young boy my family moved into an old (new) house. In the corner of a bedroom closet I found a box of old books, mostly classics such as Treasure Island, Robin Caruso (sp?), Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and several others. Being a book-hound even then, it was like finding a chest of gold to me! 🙂
   –Michael
   emhelms63@yahoo.com

   • Oh yeah. Hidden treasure…hours of reading pleasure.

   • That would be cool to find books left by someone!

     • I think so too.

4. Sherry thank you for the nice review and the tag team…and thanks for showing a lot of my covers (all done by my amazing Canadian cover artist Dawne Dominique). I truly appreciate you and Laura’s support over the years on my books! Things are going good in my life and so much better than last year when I was battling breast cancer. A year clear so far!
   Let’s see…in the house my husband and I now have lived in for 20 years (the house is 100 years old this year) we found a 1929 telephone book up in a loft….and 3 old dollar bills under the linoleum in the downstairs bedroom. We discovered the 3 dollars on the day we moved in, tearing up the badly worn linoleum, and bought a McDonald’s supper with it because we were too tired to cook that first night.
   (P.S. I just finished Dinosaur V: Survivors and will be publishing it in the next week or so.)

   • Dawne does a fabulous job on the covers. I am so happy to hear one year cancer free. Did you try to call any numbers in the book? What did they look like? Are they the same as now? Woo Hoo…free lunch. Gotta love it. Dino V…I am very excited about it!!!!!!!!

     • Hmmm…you said: Did you try to call any numbers in the book? What did they look like? Are they the same as now? What are you referring to? Just curious. Kathryn

       • In the 1929 telephone book you found. 🙂

         • No, we didn’t try to call any of the numbers. I do recall they were shorter, less numbers than we have today. Like Bridgeton 5321, etc. Also, there was no clip art back then so all the graphics illustrating the companies in the yellow pages section were hand drawn. The trucks back then, too, were open in the back and sides were wooden rails. Kind of neat.

         • Cool. I used to deliver papers as a third job when I lived in Panama City Beach Florida. Loved the place, but as a non local it was hard to find a job and keep it through the winter, when a lot of businesses closed down. The first thing that popped into my mind after reading your comment, “How did they keep the papers dry?” lol

         • Oh, I meant trucks in general, not to deliver the newspapers, just regular trucks in the yellow pages were open and wooden railed. So, I guess, there must have been covered trucks, too.

5. Hi Sherry, what a fun ice breaker question to ask!

   No, I don’t ever recall finding any treasure in any of the old house where we moved to. But I do remember discovering and playing in our attic in one house we had which was HUGE. So was the basement.

   I think out imaginations and where we went with them were the “found” treasures, don’t you?

6. I’ve never found anything, but I’ve always thought it would be fun to move into an old house and search for hidden treasures! After my grandfather died, my grandma found several spots where he’d stashed money.

   • That’s great. I used to party a bit and would find money in my pants pockets all the time. It was like winning the lottery, granted a small one. 🙂

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8. When renovating our old house, we took down our basement drop ceiling and found a variety of items, which we think came from a male teens room. We found a small baggie with marijuana in it and some items that should have been in his wallet but he kept the some up in the ceiling. It was quite a surprise considering we had our kids helping us take down the ceiling at the time. That house had quite a few interesting stories as we remodeled it.

   • So you found his hidden stash. Makes you wonder why the things for his wallet were up there. What was going on where he felt he had to hide them? Could there be a book in your story? lol

     • I think he was doing some entertaining in his room – lots of entertaining.
       The funny thing too was that my older son was in middle school and this was his room. At a later date, one of his friend’s parents called and asked if he was home (late at night). I said, Of course he was, since it was late at night! Well, I went and checked and low and behold he was gone! So, I sat up all night and waited for him to come home in the living room, just waiting to catch him come home. Hours past and he never came home. Finally, I went down again and wait…he was in bed! I woke him up and of course, he said he had been there all night long and well, I begged to differ and finally he confessed that he had climbed out this tiny window he had. I did end up calling the other parents back and telling them that my son was gone and the next morning we caulked that window shut! Oh, the stories… my kids still talk about it.

       • That’s so funny. Kids…

9. Oh I get it. I can picture those trucks.

10. I moved into my husband house about 10 years ago after we got married, The house is not that old at the time maybe 10 years old and was originally owned by his parents. But the treasures that we in this house and still her from the family members that have passed is quite amazing, from antic fans, to several antic instruments. I now have then on display along with the treasures I found in my grandparents house. Some hold mystery to me while others are unique and pleasing to look at and ponder what kids look through these or played with them, to who talk on that phone or played that instrument. Treasure is what one wants to make out of it and the mystery is there if we ask but the questions that makes the items come to life.

    • Very well said Michelle!

11. we used to find alot of things i like in Cleveland the old side of town we use to find a lot of things and then we clean house for the older people and then
    i was moving some thing and then hit wall and i look in side and we found money the older people would hid it in walls

    then my sister and i was clean house for my mom we had try to move footstool i turn it over and got
    a hammer out it had over 300 dollar in coin the lady did not like banks my brother were help moving furinture out and then i said we need to turn over it and then we found more momey the lady had over 4000 dollar in the apt and then we found bank books she had money in each bank and my mom and i had to go and cash it out

    • Desiree
      my grandmother had a good friend/next door neighbor and when she died my grandmother said she found over $1400 in cash hidden in her pantry. Of course, my grandmother turned it over to the woman’s heirs.

12. I never found any thing in moving to a new house. Sad. Nothing to talk about. It would have been fun to me to find pictures or letters or something that told about the former residents.

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