June 2nd, 2010 by Kayelle Allen
Someone asked if I collected things. It got me to thinking. I even collect people! Here are some of the things I’ve amassed over the years. And let me add, this is hardly scratching the surface.
I’ve collected:
- 1 husband, 1 daughter, 2 sons, 1 son-in-law, 1 daughter-in-law, 2 granddaughters, 2 grandsons, and 1 as yet unborn grandson.
- 3 brightly colored laundry baskets to replace 1 with broken sides, 1 with broken handles, and 1 with a hole in the bottom.
- 2 sets of flatware (service for 8 each), minus 5 forks (a disastrous picnic I will never forget) and 2 knives (bent when sons were ’sword-fighting’).
- 2 bent iced tea spoons (hard ice cream)
- Too many wrinkles to count or think about
- 7 partially used jars of wrinkle cream. These creams don’t work! — Wait… maybe that’s where the wrinkles come from. Let me go read those labels 1 more time.
- 3 tubes of lipstick with a little bit left in the bottom, and a few of those tiny paddles used to dig it out with. In a drawer. In another room. Somewhere.
- 67 spools of thread (in colors I don’t even wear, LOL)
- 1 worn-out broom
- 1 worn-out mop
- Various porcelain sheep and lambs in different poses. 1 had its legs glued back on after they were broken off years ago, when the boys got into a fight in the living room. They put it back together and never said a word. But — they didn’t glue it, so the first time I dusted and picked it up… Imagine my surprise when the legs stayed behind! Imagine the talking to they got! Yeah. Not for breaking something. Life happens. Glass breaks. But for being deceitful.
- A list of friends’ names in my email address book. Some of these friends I’ve never seen face to face, but they’re as dear to me as sisters.
- Last but not least, a box full of mismatched socks whose mate the dryer-monster ate. Surely, some day, they’ll show up. Probably as soon as I throw out that box…
So, what kinds of things have you collected over the years?
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What kinds of things have I collected over the years?
1. four beautiful sisters, each unique
2. 3 lovely daughters, one dashing son
3. a life time of memories, mostly great, a few tragic.
4. The best thing I collect is dust, I added dust on little animal statutes, various sizes of pyramids, plastic flower (really, the best for good to storing dust) and a few thousand books, the antique books look best under the years of collected dust.
5. Thousands of tidbits of worthless knowledge, but great for conversation starters! Might use them in a story some day…
6. A shelf full of hair products, the bottles promise shining thick hair (they lie) I DO have shiny thin hair. {sigh}
7. 26 gallon size jars of pennies, hidden in them are thirty-three wheaties, they weren’t ‘different’ when I started collecting them many years ago, I forgot which jar they are in….
8. a box of family photos, at least I think they are family …..wait, is that the box of photos I found in the garage when I moved in this house?
9. a lot of fridge magnets, mostly on top of out of date notes to remind me of the dental appointments that I forgot to remove.
10. roughly 87 pens, no ink, 61 broken pencils (I keep forgetting to throw them away)
11. three bottles of the wrong brand chow-chow, laden with mustard, but my hubby hates mustard.
12. 14 stories that I started to write, but gave up, but many some day….
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I have 4 sisters too, none of whom live in my state. Unless you count the state of confusion, in which case they’re all really close by. ;o
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And all these years I thought I was along in the world ….
I’ve traveled a lot and found out the State of Confusion is the best state to live in – for a couple reasons -
The state tree for the State of Confusion is the Family Tree.
The state bird for the State of Confusion is the Coo-coo.
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There is also plenty of good company. I’ve never felt alone there!