Drawer Archeology

It started with a search for a furniture touch-up stick and turned into a review of the last 6 years or so. We have a couple of catch-all drawers in our kitchen that get stuff tossed into them but rarely get stuff taken out of. One of those drawers was where we thought the touch-up stick was.

The search turned into a drawer clean out. Here are some of the things we found:

A temporary checkbook from 2001, when we needed to change our bank account because someone stole our mail.

An old 4-function calculator with corroded battery gook seeping from its seams.

A can of dried-up neutral shoe polish.

A Florida Turnpike toll receipt from April 4th 2001.

A 4 watt lightbulb.

A tip from a tube of caulk.

An old tube of Blistik (soothing berry) bought from Eckerds.

A pair of reading glasses minus one arm.

The paper top of a Harry and David’s bag.

An alcohol cleaning pad for Velcro.

An old watch.

Several dry erase markers.

A little wind-up walking toy.

3 Breathasure capsules.

Clothing tags.

Batteries.

Pencils.

A short role of plastic tape (red) .

A compass.

A plastic ruler.

A small pack of silica gel .

A wad of gauze that looked like it had been wrapped around a thumb.

Thank-you candy from Blockbuster Video.

A matchbook with 3 matches in it.

A cats-eye marble.

A jingle bell.

A chip clip.

Easter egg stickers.

A small sheet of felt circles.

A candle.

A baby picture of Leidon Fale (who is now 15-18 yrs old).

A floppy disk labeled “screen antics”.

A Contac capsule.

A sheet of paper with “Tim & Karen Feagins July 28, 2001” on it. (Happy Anniversary Tim and Karen!) .

A blue ribbon.

BUT NO PAINT STICK! - Oh, by the way, this is just the stuff that was thrown out. The drawer is still quite full of "stuff".