Cleaning Out Stuff

Today I decided to clean out my two kitchen desk office supply drawers. I found more STUFF than one person should ever have--43 black or blue ink ball point pens--12 from Bank of Oak Ridge! Three other pens have red ink and 6 more are roller ball or felt tip types. Need a mechanical pencil? I counted 19 in my pencil and pen basket. And there are a bunch more all over the house. Regular pencils? 10 plus 2 red pencils. There were paper clips and rubber bands galore--some of which came from my mother's desk. She died in 1999. There were 4 pairs of scissors, 3 tweezers and 2 cuticle nippers but only one toenail clipper. The four nail files and 5 emery boards go along with them.

I thought I was running low on eraser sticks, so I recently bought 3--which now go along with the four I found among the pencils and pens. There were old stamps (again from my mother's collection) and numerous little sticky note pads of various sizes. There were felt-tip markers and highlighters of various colors--mostly pink and yellow--and 5 glue sticks that weren't dried up. (Several more were.) A stapler, 2 boxes of staples and a staple puller-outer were there too along with 4 rolls of Wite-Out correction tape and one bottle of correction fluid. (I'm prepared when I make mistakes.)

I even found a little bitty magnifying glass. (Now I have to put it where I can find it next time I try to read that little bitty phone book type!)

There were 4 hand-held calculators (dollar-store type) though most times I use a larger desk-type one. Or just use a pencil or pen on paper the old fashioned way.

I found penny wrappers, extra leads for mechanical pencils and erasers for regular pencils, extra credit cards, old business cards (for me and others) and a bunch of deposit slips for the Bank of Oak Ridge (which I use when I go steal their pens).

And 2 chop sticks.

Now my problem is figuring out how many of what to put back in the drawers and what to do with the rest!

Wait, wait--don't tell me!