By Tom Bradley

While I was cleaning out the cottage last week, I found a few old items that brought back memories. The Clarkson Bantam hockey jacket with the black leather sleeves was a beauty, although it doesn’t seem to fit anymore. Fortunately, neither does the Speedo with the maple leaf pattern. I found a pair of flip flops that were so old they were called thongs. And to my great surprise, my wooden toy box was full of custom made cassettes (you must remember Dan Fogelberg, Foreigner and Pure Prairie League).

Also, at the back of the shelf, buried behind the George Athans water ski book, I came across a precious antique. It was a little pinkish book entitled, ‘Monthly Payment Tables on Mortgage Loans’. It looks like it was published in the mid-80’s and bought at Canadian Tire for $3.49. But what really makes it an antique, beside the fact that it was a book and not a webpage or app, is the sub-title on the cover:

From 5% to 30%
From $500 to $100,000

Now that’s an antique!