Sorting out the tiny drawers

The above photo is from nearly 15 years ago (September 14, 2010). It's my cubicle at the York Daily Record, where I had a set of tiny drawers that I used to sort paperclips, thumb tacks and other office supplies. It was very nerdy and mostly unnecessary. How often does one truly need a thumb tack or rubber band in the course of a workweek? 

Eventually, the tiny drawers ended up back home. And over many years and a couple of moves, I stashed very random things into the drawers, stuffing most of them full. 

Last week we did an excavation. Joan, Ashar and I went through the drawers one by one and sorted stuff into five piles: Sell, Trash, Office Supplies, Tuck Away Inside A Book and Keep. Yes, that's a very Papergreat set of categories. What did you expect? 

We came across all sorts of stuff. Just to name a few: Game pieces, sports and movie ticket stubs, Christmas light bulbs, baseball cards, small pencils, stickers, a bar of soap, keys, buttons, a locket of Coby's hair, pins, small photos, bottlecaps, wrappers, keychain trinkets, Dick Clark's autograph, a small piece of candy that I ate, coins, tokens, my wedding ring and much more. It was a lot of fun! Some of the cats even "helped."

And we were getting rid of stuff in multiple ways, so that was great too. There's already a listing on eBay for some of the stuff. Here are some photos: