The Home Stretch

Here we are getting ready to finally start our move to the next phase of our lives. In getting ready, I've been sorting through years of collections of various things. I really must donate my brain to science when my time is up to see if they can figure out why one person deliberately collects so much! Wow - it's simply amazing to me.

Yesterday I sorted through just one of my compulsions - chocolate sucker molds. I got them organized and put back in a better order than they had been. After I finished that I actually counted them ... big mistake. I have 348! Now really, outside of a professional candy maker, who on earth needs so many of these little plastic molds? Oh well, that's just one of many things that I've encountered recently.

Last week after an emotional roller-coaster, my husband and I went to our favorite thrift store to unwind. Didn't bring home any junk - just a few pieces of clothes. But one item I could not leave there was a huge bag of unused zippers used for sewing. I sorted them by color and then put them in their own bags...after I counted them. For $2.95 I got 309 zippers - now that was a find and can you blame me for not getting them? I don't know if you can buy one zipper for $2.95. I'll just add them to the hundred or so other zippers I have. You know one of these days I'm going use them...and the story continues!