Personalizing a backpack and an old pulp magazine.

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I spent quite a bit of money on a new backpack, a fairly " serious, camping " one. I does seem to reduce the strain on my back from carrying so much in my hands . Frankly. I better keep it from being stolen - and, actually, it occurs to me that personalizing it might make it be seen as less stealable. as not looking store-fresh and easily re-sellable.

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...I seem to have pulled some sort of distinction here, starting a post that has apparently NO! views WHATSOEVER!

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Personalizing it may help, but it is probably best to keep it in sight...best thing to do is figure out the things you need daily like essential things and keep them in that bag and keep that bag with you, even if you have to reduce the load in the bag just make sure to keep the back pack with you.

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...Let me mention first that ~ this was quite some years ago ~ the cover used was the cover of a 40s pulp magazine, POSSIBLY titled " TIT-BITS " or something similar ~ that had a VERY attractive old-style pulp painting cover, showing a rather Jean Harlow-looking blonde in na swimsuit, standing next to a big barrel full of red apples, eating one herself, holding the apple, with bites in it, out to the reader!! Methinks some ~ " suggestion " ~ was intended!
That's especially since the mag, when read, was ~ by far stricter 1940s newsstand standards, obviously ~ meant to be a VERY MILD " Naughty " pulp ~ like a PG-13/light R version of the " Spicy " pulps that existed during the era, I think ~ Ya diggeth ? Sort of vaguely suggestive/" Salacious " stories. Mostly hinted at.
I tore that cover off and taped it my - homeless - backpack and it almost immediately peeled off .
The date of the magazine was just slightly post-World War II, late 1945 or early 1946 ~ I thought it looked more 30s from the Harlow blonde - I guess the past always looks a little earlier than what we, later, think of it as looking like - Once, I found a 1980s LIFE magazine, 1983/4 or so...and the ads and so forth, I guess, looked so Seventies, not Eighties, to me. What, you mean everybody wasn't going around in A Flock Of Seagulls haircuts and Joan Collins big hair and shoulders playing Donkey Kong?

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!