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What Have You Lost

backpacks, rugs, shoes, a couch or two, lots of junk from a junk drawer, what kind of junk? Just general junk. Can you itemize it? pennies, scissors, toothbrushes, matches, pens, eyeglasses, toothpaste, combs, dog chews, nickles, necklaces, rings, thread, dimes, a quarter or two, balloons, Scotch tape. Not an off brand? Scotch? I stare at the imaginary appraiser in my daydream. What would I do in a fire? I guess I had better never have one. Or I might become a murderess as well as an arsonist.

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Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 1/17/2019 12:42:00 PM

Hello caren, I have lost earrings,penecklacennies,dimes,quarters, small ornaments. pens{under my nose{ just to name a few.Have a nice day my friend.

Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 1/18/2019 10:55:00 AM

I have lot earrings and I do not feel them fall off. Sometimes it is in side the house, it would take me 2 or 3 weeks to find it, once i found ear ring int the shower stall's drain. have a nice day my friend.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 1/17/2019 3:17:00 PM

I have lost so much jewelry when I find it I am amazed, and when I see stuff on others I think "I used to have something a lot like that, but I had forgotten about it."

M. L. Kiser

Date: 12/28/2018 3:34:00 PM

Ooh, it accumulates very fast; If you can't recycle it somehow...sell it or donate it.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/28/2018 8:44:00 PM

I tried the selling thing. Here is my problem. The second I say I am selling ten people drag 16 carloads and 8 truckloads of their junk to my house so we can "sell" together and I buy most of it.

Rhona Mcferran

Date: 12/27/2018 5:27:00 AM

I still have an occasional junk elf problem here, too... although my husband has scared most of them away. He still doesn't believe in junk elves, though... so I get blamed when their handiwork shows up! ;o

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/27/2018 5:32:00 AM

With me, I just get one cleaned out and bam! There are six more of them. I have no idea how my desk got this way; if I was to list what was on my tiny desk along with a keyboard, a diaper, a spool of thread,and empty pill bottle, a shirt, a purse, well I could go on for days.

Sand Blown

Date: 12/26/2018 7:42:00 AM

an important life item is: how well did you learn to let go...that has worked for me...times life and things pass

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/26/2018 7:48:00 AM

I have let go, and let go and let go, and still the piles resume. I think elves are running in here nightly and dumping twenty or sixty more things into each junk drawer.