by Debi

• “In Huskies We Trust” Russell Stover candy-bar (partially eaten but still wrapped)
• Cribbage board
• 4 old family photographs
• A baggie of old looking screws (I suspect they’re something important but I couldn’t say what, maybe for Shannon’s drafting table?)
• A broken glass nail file with peacock feather design
• A list of movies I wanted to watch but then promptly forgot that I’d made this list (The Iron Lady, The Descendents, Fay Grimm?, Coreolanus?)
• 2 unopened packs of Trident cinnamon gum
• Assorted cards that used to be in my wallet: Orca bus card, gift cards (don’t know if there’s anything on any of them or not – Nordstrom, Starbucks, Barnes & Noble, Fred Meyer), insurance cards (medical and dental), preferred shopper cards (Famous Footwear, Fred Meyer, Walgreens), membership cards (AARP, Tacoma Zoo)
• “Hey Mon, No Problem” souvenir playing cards from Jamaica
• Burt’s Bees Hand Salve
• 2 empty Albuterol inhalers
• Tiny troll key chain (with purple hair)
• Remote control (not sure what it’s for, something audio related)
• Burt’s Bees Almond Milk Beeswax Hand Crème
• Padded finger splint
• 2 nail clippers (small and large size)
• Small red flashlight (actually has working batteries in it!)
• Small tin of cinnamon flavored Altoids
• Pack of toothpicks
• Earrings (2 pairs)
• Black earbuds
• Microsoft Office “Important Documentation” envelope
• Packet of La Cross Emery Boards
• Assorted gum wrappers and soda bottle tops
• Long dead cell phone (wonder if I need anything off that phone? Numbers?  Photos?)
• Lens cleaning cloth
• More random screws (these were loose in the drawer)
• 2 Benadryl gel capsules (still in wrap)
• C-battery (no idea if it works or not)
• 6 crochet hooks (various sizes)
• 1 broken brown shoelace
• 1 black Velcro strap
• 6 pens/pencils (assorted)
• 16 hair ties (various shades of blue, must have been a set)
• Laser cat toy (still works)
• 3 Post-It notes with names/phone numbers
• 1 Post-It note that says “she gets super manic when she’s stressed” (unknown who the “she” is in this statement, but it is my handwriting)

[stopped going through junk drawer to play with Velma – she heard the laser cat toy rattle when I picked it up and came running to play]

• Tan-colored elastic headband
• 3 yarn needles (1 metal, 2 plastic)
• Disney™ Wonder souvenir pin (still on backing)
• Address of a friend
• A note that says “Sometimes life is as simple as just showing up.”
• Nearly empty tube of Dramamine
• Wristwatch with brown band and large face (still working but the strap doesn’t latch)
• Thermometer
• Orajel Severe Pain Formula
• Another address
• Coppertone Sport Ultra Sweatproof lotion
• Broken laser cat toy
• Handheld “20-Q” (20 Questions) electronic game (works)
• The Camper’s Knot Tying game (??)
• 12-foot retractable measuring tape (so that’s where it’s been!)
• Laptop reading light
• Pocket Blackjack game (needs AA battery and small screw to hold on battery casing)
• Large blue wide-toothed comb
• 1 wrapped Luden’s sugar-free cough drop
• Small black memo book (mostly unused but has some old notes in it from 10+ years ago)
• Moon Valley Organics Lotion Bar (empty tin)
• Purell Hand Sanitizer (2 oz. bottle)
• Cute buttons in an Archibald Sister’s plastic bag
• Batteries for cat laser toy
• Yahtzee™ score pad
• Nikon CoolPix camera manual
• Receipt for pizza delivery from Papa John’s
• Small pink nail polish

[just realized that perhaps the “broken” laser cat toy only needs new batteries … put found batteries in and tested … Velma confirms the laser cat toy works just fine now]

• Rand McNally “Easy to Fold!” plastic-coated map of Tacoma streets (why is this in the coffeetable drawer and not in the car?)
• Keyboard cleaning brush
• Unknown plastic “thingy” (can’t even adequately describe it … it’s a “thing” and it’s unknown)
• A list of movies I watched in a World Film class (Mother, Le Havre, Aftershock, The World, A Separation, The Mirror, The Kid with a Bike)
• Receipt from The Melting Pot in Tacoma – server Michael – 06/12/2014 (graduation dinner with UWT friends)
• “I Saw the Flame” pin (from seeing Olympic flame go by)
• Nintendo-24 Controller Pak
• Cranium™ game key-chain
• 2 single earrings without mates
• Packet of lens tissue “lint free for cleaning lenses, cameras & glasses”
• Full box of Chloraseptic Total Sore Throat and Cough Sugar-Free lozenges
• A pack of purple Post-its™ (say THAT ten times fast!)
• Pack of red “Bee” playing cards
• Instructions to play Canasta Caliente
• Burt’s Bees Beeswax Lip Balm
• More random screws
• Regal Isolation 2-Way Splitter (looks like something for the television? Or one of the game consoles?)
• Loose change (1 dime, 4 pennies – definitely not a wealth-making venture)
• Nail clippings (ewwww)
• Dust
• Random fuzzy stuff

I realized after writing this list, a person could learn a lot about someone else simply by looking at the contents of their junk drawer.

For example, from this list a person could know the following about me:  likes games, has a cat, has issues with dry skin, has asthma, been to Jamaica, has been to or lives near Tacoma, does crochet, watches movies, wears jewelry, eats pizza, has a computer.

Anything else you learn about me from the contents of my favorite junk drawer?