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Serious question, did I mess up by keeping my grandpa's 1953 Sears catalog in the garage for 6 years?
I found my grandpa's 1953 Sears fall catalog in a box at my mom's house in Fresno back in 2018 and figured it was junk paper, so I stuck it in the garage on a shelf. Last month my neighbor saw it and told me the heat and damp probably wrecked it, and sure enough the cover is warped and a few pages have brown spots near the bottom. I thought keeping it out of sunlight was enough, but he said garages in the valley swing 40 degrees between summer and winter and paper hates that. Now I'm out here wondering if the $60 I could've spent on a proper storage box with acid free sleeves was the cheapest mistake I ever made. Has anyone saved a catalog that got warped like this, and did pressing it flat actually help or is it done for?
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troy99618d ago
Man, I feel your pain! I did the exact same thing with my dad's old fishing tackle box and some paper stuff inside it. What actually helped me was sticking the warped pages between two heavy cutting boards with a stack of books on top and leaving it for about a month in a dry room. The brown spots won't go away, that's just age and moisture, but mine flattened out way better than I expected.
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