Acton at Centre Ice
The Acton meet came full circle this year—and my, how things have changed. The inaugural Acton swap meet, now 20 years ago, happened on...
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Collecting Ontario licence plates for 39 years
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2CENTS ARCHIVES
First started as "My 2 Cents" in 1997, I have written posts numbering into the hundreds. New posts arrive continually. Find an article by clicking the tag cloud below, or selecting a category, doing a search (see magnifying glass below on the right), or just scroll down to see the articles in chronological order.
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- Dec 29, 2022
Ottawa Christmas Dine-N-Swap 2022
2022 was the year of resumption in my plate geek world. I’d been taking for granted my various outings until 2019, and then I was...
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- Nov 11, 2022
The Grass is Greener in Grassie
The 2022 edition of Grimsby was always going to be unlike any of its previous installments. It had been three years since the last meet...
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- May 7, 2022
Acton & Stirling '22: Back in the Saddle
Thirty months. It sounds like a jail sentence. But that’s how long it’s been… Thirty long months since our last indoor swap meet in...
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- Oct 30, 2021
Driving Nowhere
It’s 6:55 PM on the last Friday night in October. At this moment, I’d be stopping for gas somewhere outside of Trenton. The air would be...
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- Sep 1, 2021
Vineland and the Great Outdoors
The annual indoor October swap meet (heretofore known as “Grimsby”) won’t happen in 2021 because of the unpredictability of changes to...
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- Jun 24, 2021
Ottawa Swap Meet 2001
June 2, 2001: That was the date of the second of two plate-collecting swaps meet in Ottawa, held in the gymnasium of Laurentian High...
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- Mar 28, 2020
Acton meet cancelled: COVID-19
The 2020 Acton licence plate swap meet is cancelled because of the COVID-19 emergency. Read on about COVID-19 (I'm a biology teacher).
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- Oct 31, 2019
Grimsby Growth
I’m exhausted! What a meet. Where do I start? And, as I’ll ponder later on, where do we go from here? My kids are grown-up enough that I...
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- May 6, 2019
The Long Road to Acton 2019
The best kind of road trip involves a proper balance of driving, nice weather, good food, laughs, and of course, finding licence plates...
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- Dec 29, 2018
Ottawa Christmas Dine & Swap 2018
Our little #Ottawa Christmas dinner seems to have caught fire! It was only a few years ago that iffy weather and various other holiday...
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- Nov 3, 2018
A blizzard of plates
No two Grimsby swap meets are the same. Each journey always leaves something unique by which I remember it. There was 2009, when a...
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- Jul 27, 2018
Valley Forge 2018: Part 3 of 3
One thing I learned about Philadelphia is that it’s bigger than the map makes it seem, and it takes a longer time to get to different...
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- Jul 22, 2018
Valley Forge 2018: Part 2 of 3
I awoke at about 7:30. It was Thursday, the second day of the ALPCA Convention in Valley Forge. The room service breakfast——that I had...
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- Jul 17, 2018
Valley Forge 2018: Part 1 of 3
The 2018 ALPCA Convention at Valley Forge was my tenth since joining the club in 1995. It was quite a different experience than the...
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- May 7, 2018
Amigos in Acton
I always know it’s been a great #Acton trip when I spend a week recovering before I have the energy to write about what a great trip it...
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- Dec 31, 2017
Ottawa Dine-N-Swap
A third Ontario swap meet in December? Is that what we have here? Well, it sure looks like it. Over the past few years, my collecting pal...
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- Oct 30, 2017
Collectin' one plate at a time
I was waiting at the curb with my overnight bag and a small cardboard box. My skinny house stood warmly behind me, its light shining out...
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- May 4, 2017
Acton up
My trip to #Acton this year was a little abbreviated. I always hope to rise early on the Saturday and take my time checking out junk...
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- Dec 28, 2016
Who's Who Roast Beast Feast
For the past few years, a little informal gathering in Ottawa has been picking up steam. Originally started on a whim by Dave Grant, it...
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