Friday, January 28, 2011

Item 28: A candy tin

Isn't this pretty?  It belonged to my mother-in-law.  She passed away last summer. When we were sorting through her things, I found this and liked it.  So I kept it.  

It's ironic that I kept this because as we sorted through her apartment, if we said it once to each other we said it a hundred times:  why did she keep this?  I suppose for the same reason I kept it!  

To a certain degree we're all pack rats.  We like shiny, interesting things.  We think we can use them for something.  But what?  I suppose I could use it for paper clips but I already have a paper clip holder.  I could use it to hold bobby pins but I don't have any bobby pins.  I could use it for straight pins but I already have a container for straight pins.  I give up!  

1 comment:

  1. i'm going to hire a ringer to buy all of this stuff at your garage sale and then I'm going to give it all back to you as a birthday and christmas presents. muahahahaha.

    except for the fake item 6...

    :) your loving daughter

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