I've lost something...well a few things lately and I was determined to find them today....so I started to clean. I only cleaned off one single desk in my craft house but I did find the things I was missing so it was good.
Now this particular desk is my pile all...well, they all are, but this one especially gathers everything and anything that I can balance on it. I wish I would have had the foresight to take a before picture, but I didn't know how funny this desk cleaning would become until it was well underway.
This desk has 7 drawers, a paper file on top and a few shelves above it...lots of room for shoving everything! You wouldn't believe the things I had in that desk....here are just a few things I found funny...you may not, but I did.
First, I found 3 bags of pixie sticks! I don't even like pixie sticks...why on earth would there be 3 bags of them in a drawer? I surely must have had a plan at one time...wish I knew what it was. Guess they are now just sugar for the kids! LOL!
The next thing I found were a bunch of keys....lots of them....I even found 1 more ring full of them after I took this picture!
After the keys, I decided to take a picture of all the notebooks I had found so far...I did find another 17 mini notebooks/scratch pads after I took the picture. I also had a very healthy supply of post it notes!
I also have to admit to a crayon addiction....I have always loved them since I was a kid and still have special crayons that I don't let the kids play with! LOL! I have the millenium addition of crayons, the 100th anniversary big box, coloring book crayons, crayons brought from Chicago by my sister, twisted crayons, and more!
I have way too many paper clips....6 packages of them plus a little tupperware full of them! They are all now in this one big tupperware! LOL!
If you should ever need a highlighter, just let me know. I have a few extras!
Can you believe that I had 5 staplers, 6 boxes of staples and a staple puller in the various drawers of my desk?
Now for the thing that surprised me the least....fortune cookie fortunes! I have these in my ashtray in my car, in my purse, in my nightstand, my jewelry box...pretty much everywhere! I don't know what it is about these things but I never ever throw them away....call it superstition or crazy...but I always keep my fortune...Someday I will make a collage (or wallpaper my room) with them! LOL!
And if you've been with this post this long, you deserve to see a picture of the clean desk! LOL!
ps. I found that I had doubled my zig pen collection somehow...seriously...cut it down from 8 containers to 4 just by taking out the duplicates! Now that is sick!
pps. Notice the Autumn Leaves calendar? It's still on January 1, 2008 because I refuse to change it until I do it! I made a goal to complete the challenges this year...we shall see!