 I actually have on my slash. Take that one out. That's gonna be the start of the video. Guys welcome back to my channel. Today I have my other mother here. Hello. Valerie and you guys have been wanting more videos with her and she came up with this great idea of sharing some of her brownie scouts memorabilia from when she was a young girl. So I guess I'll just let her take it away from here. Oh before we get started make sure you're following me on Instagram and don't forget to subscribe to my channel to see more of my moms and my life. Okay Valerie take it away. Well thank you Alex for inviting me to be on your channel today. Recently when I was in my hometown and we were going through a lot of the things I had when I was a child I found all of my old brownie and girl scout stuff. You're a brownie when you're in second and third grade and you are a girl scout when you're in fourth fifth and sixth grade. And if you can imagine me being in second and third grade that is really something isn't it? So as some of you may know I'm 64 years old so that's been a long long time ago. I was probably like what seven eight years old when I was a brownie? So we're talking about in the 1960s that's right. I remember the 1960s that's amazing isn't it? So what I want to do is I want to show you some of the memorabilia I found. So I actually have my girl scout brownie handbook from the 1960s and it's amazing it's got all this like neat stuff in it. And I think it's interesting because my name is actually written at the top of it. Part of the question becomes then well what does a brownie look like? And brownies back when I was in second grade and look it's got my name in it too brownies wore these little beanies. That was my brownie beanie. Can you believe that I wore that brownie beanie? And we had a uniform and this was my actual brownie uniform. Look how cute it is. It's got a little tie to it. Look how cute it is guys. Now in addition I had the attractive matching sweater and oh Alex the purse is too far away I can't reach it. I'll tell you this is a spiffy looking outfit and here's the little change purse because you see it's got a belt so you can put a little change purse there and I had a handbag. I had my very own brownie handbag isn't that something? In my brownie handbag I had an official brownie handkerchief. Back in the 60s every girl had to have a handkerchief because that was what you did. I don't know why because we actually had Kleenex so I have no idea why you would want to have a handkerchief because it just gets dirty and I don't know and I don't think I ever used it because it was just like too pretty but this was my official brownie handkerchief and this was my official brownie purse and my official brownie change purse. Alex is going to show you what I looked like when I was in second and third grade when I was actually a brownie. Here I am in second grade. Okay guys guess which one is Valerie? In the comments. That right there is Valerie. Let me know if you got it right. When I was in third grade really this is like like forever in a day. I guess the girls that were going to be seated in the front row must have been told to wear white that day. That is Valerie right there. I was not seated in the front row so I did not have to wear white. Look at those curls. I know. I know. Scary isn't it? Just a little. Okay after I went from third grade I was able to take off the brownie beanie and I got my very own junior scout beret. Here is my junior scout beret that I wore. Very stylish don't you think? And when you were a junior scout you had a uniform and a little bow tie that you wore. That was a little bow tie that you went on this but the main thing is is you had this lovely sash. You had let me try that again. You had this lovely sash and all the sash all these things meant something and I had more of these but I didn't get them sewn on for some reason but all of these things meant something and they were badges and stuff that you earned and I think they probably still do that in scouts. And as you can see we had I think the candle was actually one for our particular troop that we had picked with the attractive bow tie. We also had a sweater for those cool days that also matched my girl scout attire. I'm not sure why I didn't have a purse for girl scouts. I also had an official girl scout hanky. I may not have had the purse but I had the official girl scout hanky. Once again never used because they had invented Kleenex and junior girl scout handbook and in the junior girl scout handbook you had songs and you had crafts and cooking tips and how to use a knife and how to tie a rope. I never learned how to tie a rope how to go camping. I never wanted to go camping. That was a terrible scout. To me camping is anything less than the Hampton Inn so no camping for Valerie. But anyway these were all oh here's the badges. Here's the badges on the back that you could earn. That's why I know that I had a lot more badges than I actually had on my slash. Take that one out. That's going to be the start of the video. I had a lot more badges than I had on my sash. I want the mental block now. I'm always going to call it a slash. Do you know that? I don't know why I called it a slash. I wonder if that's something like deep-seated psychological reason. Anyway I'll tell you these these handbooks were what you use to make all of your your meetings and stuff. You had to have your handbooks. Now I'm not sure what happened to my fourth grade group picture but because all these were I don't know if they still do this in school but what they would do is on picture day they'd round up all the little kids they put them in front of the photographer and you had to smile pretty and so you always had a group picture. But here's the fifth grade one. Now I become a little more recognizable. Yeah she is right there. And here is sixth grade. You can definitely tell that's valid. Now I'm like starting to grow into my own you'll notice. She is right there. Starting to pick out some of my own clothes. The audience can take that as they will. Yes you can. So that is what I look like in sixth grade. You'll notice you notice how tall I was. I was the tallest person in my class in sixth grade. That was my claim to fame. I hope that you have enjoyed this walk down memory lane as I have displayed to you all of my wonderful scout items. Now the question might be well don't they have like cadet scouts and senior scouts after sixth grade? Yes they do. But I stopped scouting when I was in sixth grade so I was only a brownie and a junior scout. So if you want to know about cadet scouts and senior scouts you are going to have to watch someone else's video. Thank you so much Alex for letting me share my stuff. Of course. I appreciate it. I hope you all enjoyed this. If you enjoyed it give it a thumbs up. Give it a thumbs up and be sure you hit like on our video and share it with your friends. Don't forget to subscribe and subscribe and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.