Simplifying

It is a long story.

Some of the stitching in one of my new slippers started unraveling.  So I decided to restitch it.  Seems simple, doesn't it?

Well....  I looked in my "stuff" drawer for needle and thread.  The drawer was such a mess, I could not find what I needed.

Because I am moving out of this rented condo late in the summer I decided, some time ago, to start simplifying life, weeding out the unused and possibly even unwanted possessions.  So, the "stuff" drawer seemed like a good place to start.

About an hour later I had found 17 lip balm sticks, cans or jars.  Three watches and one half of a watch band (just in case I needed it.)  Five lens cleaning cloths, ten spools of thread, two sewing kits, seven Chums/Croakies eyeglass holders, about ten shoe and boot laces, a lanyard, easily a hundred safety pins of assorted sizes and two dozen assorted buttons.  See below for some of the cache.

The odd thing about all this is that I don't wear a watch, have not sewn anything for at least three years, can't possibly use more than one or two lip thingies, and certainly don't need all three watches and half a watch band.  I will not even comment about the safety pins and buttons.

After removing most of the above, the "stuff" drawer looks great.  Except for one spool of thread, two lip balms thingies, two watches (why?), one sewing kit and various other things, it is practically empty.

Next will be my sock drawer.  What treasures could possibly await me?  I know my ten-year-old GPS is there, and my two-way radio (unused since I moved to Colorado six plus years ago, is there.  Also the small transistor radio I bought in Arizona in case of a long-term power failure (as in nuclear attack.) Are all radios now transistor radios?  Socks too.

Does anyone want a lip balm thingie?  Or a watch?  Spools of thread?  Half a watch band?

Oh, by the way, I finally did stitch up my slipper.  It looks odd, of course, but is staying stitched.