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A dry Christmas tree can burn faster than newspaper. * *Before the internet, you were able to receive a collection of news articles printed on paper. These papers were delivered to your door either by professionals or kids on bikes struggling to balance while carrying the Sunday edition.

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*Monday was the best paper because it was basically ten pages long and weighed less than a AA battery. The papers got heavier every day after that. By Sunday you were essentially biking around a car battery in 28-degree weather on a rural road with no streetlights allegedly building character.

*All that to say during the holidays some people would leave you extra cash and small gifts sometimes with personalized notes saying thanks. It might not have made up for the falls, and walks through cobwebs, and sweatshirts covered in ink, but it did make you feel appreciated in the neighborhood.

*So, this holiday season take a minute and find a way to show some appreciation to the people in your community who likely don't get enough and for the sake of that toy squirrel we lit on fire for this video water your real Christmas tree.

Brings back great memories of helping my father who had a paper route to help make ends meet. I would sit on the hood of our Ford Pinto and chuck the Sunday paper into yards as we slowly (mostly) drove the route. I was ten. I only slid off the hood once.

I remember those days. Paper media tries every day to turn us all digital. Customers didn’t abandon newspapers, newspapers abandoned us. When you stopped printing local news (obits etc), my bros dumped you. Larger companies to follow. You committed suicide. Same with our previously great MSM.

LMAO. I was going to say, the darkest days in history, the olden days with the job I had at 13 were used as historical context to describe to a modern public WHAT A NEWSPAPER WAS. Then again, we're just people born in the 1900s to many of these kids.