Let's Go Spelunking.

Except for it's not caves we're examining here. It's a cavernous junk drawer in the kitchen near the hallway. A very convenient location to drop things in passing. I bet there are things in there older than I am. Let's see, shall we.

Obviously it holds necessary household items like scissors, pencils, pens, tape, calculators, and rulers (I'm sure you all have a drawer like that at home), but if you delve a littler deeper you'll find some pretty weird things in there.

• I was right. There is something older than me in there. Those massive spectacles in the upper left hand corner were my dad's glasses at one point in time. I think he got them out to show me how small my glasses were compared to his. I'm pretty sure he also just wanted to show me how cool he was back then.
• That lone pink pom-pom fell off my snowman slippers once upon a time. My mom said she would fix them (because I'm all about symmetry) but that never happened. I'm not even sure how it made its way downstairs since our sewing machine is upstairs. It's been living in the drawer undisturbed ever since.
• The small, green, bullet-shaped thing is an eraser. I found it at school in 3rd grade and fell in love. I didn't think it was too extreme to steal an eraser, so I brought it home to enjoy it, but when it got home it lost its magic so I tossed it in the drawer to save it from any further humiliation. My dad discovered it a few years ago and has been using it somewhat ever since. Apparently it's a really good eraser.
• Behind the glare of the florescent light is a package of music note shaped paper clips. I got those for my birthday 2 years ago and put them out by all of my other music stuff in the dining room. Turns out, there isn't much to paper clip in dining rooms, so I moved them to the drawer, hoping to use them more. One now holds together my AP Comp vocab notecards. At least I'm organized.
• There's a roll of bright fuschia electrical tape in there. I was bored one day in 6th grade when I found it and decided to cover my whole band folder in purple tape. It used the majority of the roll and I didn't have anything else I needed it for so I put it back. I was the coolest band kid in 6th grade.
• Lastly, that's a mini book light/laser pointer. It can only clip on to 20 pages so nobody really used it as a booklight. The laser made a really good play toy for Dave, though. (Dave was a cat. Not a brother. I'm an only child and who entertains their brothers with lasers?) Then he got old and didn't want to play with it anymore, so back in the drawer it went.

As you can see, there are many useful things in that drawer. You just need to go junk drawer diving. Who knows? You might even find some cool tidbits and trinkets in there.

My gosh, I'm witty.