From the Junk Box

I’m kicking off a new series called From the Junk Box. For a dozen or more years I’ve kept a box full of miscellaneous stuff. I’ve added to the box over the years, but have never thrown anything away once it entered the box. The stuff in the box isn’t necessarily important, useful or valuable. Most often it’s none of those things. But if it made it to the box - it has stayed. This is the one box that, in all of our moves, has never been unpacked and put away.

A lot of the junk box stuff has some sort of personal value to me and wouldn’t mean a thing to anyone else on the planet. At various times in the past dozen years I’ve put stuff in the box, because at the time I thought it was something I might want to hang on to. There’s other stuff in the box that I’m not quite sure of how it got there, or why it is there. What I’m saying is there’s really no quality control on what goes into the box. But that’s not important right now.

What is important (in a relative sense to other meaningless things on this blog) is that in my sickly state I decided that it would be fun to go through the box. So I did.

While I won’t be sharing all of the contents of this mysterious box with you (I know you’re very sad), I figured that I would log a few things. Just random stuff that I found in the box that amused me and might amuse you too.

So any post from here on out with “Junk Box:” in the title, is my way of doing show and tell. I know you must be thrilled, really.