I remember reading a slice about the junk drawer in someone’s kitchen. I wish I remembered who it was so I could link it here. Last night, after climbing into bed to read a few more slices, I texted our school slicing group with kudos for completing week 1 and a few reminders to make the most of week 2. I suggested keeping it simple when coming up with slice ideas. Then, I remembered that “drawer” slice, so I went with it:
• A bottle of nighttime cold meds I [thankfully] don’t need anymore. But Tim soon might? He tends to catch colds more often than I.
• A black flair pen and my sentence notebook, which I now use during Thursday Night Writing Group.
• Orange stickers for my home calendar 🍊😃
• My maintenance inhaler and its replacement.
• My purple pillcase, reminding me that my week is ending.
• Chapstick I never use, along with a tiny tub of cocoa butter Vaseline that works best for my lips.
• One of Elena’s marble spheres for the amazing tracks we build with magnatiles. I keep them in my closet because #1 She’s still not that interested in building with those amazing tiles, and #2 She no longer puts stuff in her mouth, but these I’d rather have in my room.
• Our TV remote
*Currently fighting late-night temptation as I write these words.
• A tiny Polaroid of myself when I was 15 years old. It’s been here since we moved in June; I keep forgetting to put it in the box with the other old photos.
• Oh! My bracelet!
• A hair tie and some bobby pins.
• My 2014 iPod. Wish I could access!
• Debit/credit cards we don’t keep in our wallets.
• Trillian’s farewell letters when I left Egypt. She gave me 5 envelopes: open when you get to Miami, open on the day of your birthday, open when something amazing happens, open when you miss Cairo, open when something bad happens.
• One of many of Tim’s cases for his glasses. I swear we have like 10 of those in the house.
• The handwritten prayer my grandma gave me when I first went overseas.
I need to organize this thing. But that’s a task for another day.
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You have me curious about my own junk drawers. Yours seems more purposeful that mine would be!
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“Oh! My bracelet!” Haha! I love this slice and the things we discover along with you. I have too many glasses cases like Tim. Trillian’s letters are so 🥹 Cocoa butter vaseline sounds like a dream—I use a big tub of aquaphor every night!
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