Some surprising closet finds

After working on the paper for a while this weekend, I decided to take a break from it and went back to cleaning out a closet that I started working on a few weeks ago.

It’s amazing what all I found. Please understand I’m not finished with this project yet.

I like to describe as it a work in progress.

I have been progressing on it all right, but it’s still going to take quite a bit time to get it done like I want.

Guess I haven’t been in a hurry because what’s in that closet, even though some stuff has been in there probably 20 or more years, is not hurting anything is the way I look at it.

However, my dear wife Pat looks at it a little differently.

So much so she’s offered me an incentive that when I do finish this project she’ll take me out to eat at a really nice restaurant.

She seldom looks in that closet, because she really has no reason to since the only thing of hers are some old clothes she never wears and tells me she won’t wear, so I can give them away at any time, she’s told me.

I seem to rationalize, probably too much, when I believe there is a need to really keep and save something thinking I will use it at a later date. Or, maybe my thought was I’ll save that for someone who might want it or because I will give it away.

In one brief case, I discovered two copies of a column that I’d written about an aunt seven years ago that I’d been searching for no telling how long so I could send it to her daughter who is my first cousin.

I’m mailing one of those this week to my cousin.

In that same brief case I discovered two letter openers, one from the Kiwanis Club I received for whenever I spoke there years ago and the other from St. Gregory’s when I served on the board of directors, and my term was up 16 years ago.

I probably won’t need to ever purchase magic markers again, I guess, nor should I ever have to buy any Christmas cards soon.

I discovered a brand new, 25-feet tape measure that’s never been opened, I won’t run out of index cards any time soon either and I found two gavels given to me for serving as president of a couple of boards.

The old photos I came across I haven’t even begun to go through because many of those will be keepsakes.

In fact, a lot of those things I have found are really more mementoes than anything else.

Most everything I’ve come across so far has little money value, but items that are keepsakes and that I can pass down.

It’s been interesting to find some of things I had completely forgot about. I have a feeling there is more I will discover as the project continues. Stand by for updates.