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Show When all else Fails .... Look in the Junk Drawer By Mary Gae Evans PAROWAN - I am a grandmother of four very busy little darlings, and I have prepared well for their visits to our home. I have a lovely assortment of toys to please either a male or female child, and also a nice collection of children's books. But do they ever read them or play with the toys-no, toys-no, they zip right past them and go for the real excitement, ex-citement, "The Kitchen Junk Drawer". There they find a glorious assortment of old batteries and other flashlight parts, bottle lids, pens that leak, unpaid bills, thread and screwdrivers just to mention a few. This is the drawer no one plans for but.' everyone ends up with. It's the place you put all the little odds and ends you pick up off the table, counters and floors that you don't know what to do with. It's kind of like that dark shelf in the top of the hall closet where newspaper clippings, letters, bank statements and old junior prom programs multiply, or a little like the room in the basement where old record players broken toasters and odd shaped bottles are put to rest. I've always dreamed of being a "Throw it away type person" but I'm just not and neither was my mother. If you want to see the first picture I drew in kindergarten kin-dergarten or any of the flower I wore to dances (now dried between pages of books, I have them). I have a drawer full of little hand prints in plaster of paris, from my children and grandchildren, and also little pictures and letters from all of them I have those also. I have money order stubs and light bills from 1948 on, and a bulging box of scraps of material (I might need someday). I have my husbands Jr. prom suit hanging neatly in the closet and I understand it's going to be back in style this year. The pleated baggy top pants with tight bottoms and cuffs and the big shoulders in the jacket. I think he can still wear it if he sucks in his tummy a little. I've still got my prom dress too but that's a different dif-ferent matter. It looks like it might fit a wasp on a strict diet. Oh well, it's not back in style yet any way. Maybe next year. If you are a 'saver' as I am don't panic someday and "chuck it all" or you'll find you'll need just the very things you threw away the day after their gone. And besides it's kind of fun once in a while to get down the box in the very back of the closet and go through and remenisce a little. |