hoarding

This morning I reached into the kitchen drawer which has the comb I use for the boys’ hair and couldn’t locate the comb. I also couldn’t locate the comb I KNEW I had bought a few weeks ago and placed in there. This wasn’t the first morning I had comb-location issues…which is why I HAD RECENTLY BOUGHT A COMB AND PUT IT IN THAT DRAWER! I looked again. The drawer is my kitchen junk drawer. Literally, junk.   No exaggeration. What is supposed to be in that drawer?

• Multiple flavors of gum – self-serve for the boys
• A comb
• A pair of nail clippers

What is supposed to be in there has   explosed into a plethera of gum wrappers, random lip glosses, expired medication packets, stuff hidden from the kitchen counter, mis-placed toy pieces, a bunch of screws, nuts and bolts and just plain junk. I still couldn’t find the comb and assumed someone took it somewhere else so I went upstairs and found another comb for the boys’ hair. Later in the morning I decided that cleaning out the junk drawer might be a good idea. Oh, and I might be able to locate the missing comb. Or the missing SEVEN combs that I located inside that drawer… Yes. 7. I have unknowingly been hoarding combs in my junk drawer. And as if 7 combs isn’t the best treasure ever, I found this gem: In the boys’ self-service of gum, it appears that someone put this in his mouth, chewed twice and returned it to the drawer. Pure junk drawer art.