Treasures

I have a bowl in my entry way where I throw things when I come home.

1. Before. This is ridiculous. I know. But everyone's gotta have their "Catch-All" place, right. Well, ummm... truthfully - this is only one of three Catch-Alls. Or four. Or five.

2. journal to keep notes from staff meetings and to-do lists

3. miscellaneous paper with some math on it - I was figuring out how much I was supposed to pay for something

4. magazine I want to send to some friends in the US

5. brochure for the neighborhood pool (which after cleaning out this basket, I can no longer find. I think I filed it away - but where? ... thus justifying that sometimes the Catch-All method of filing works better than actual labeled files.)

6. keys for my friend who was staying with me - don't know which ones actually work

7. miscellaneous receipts

8. a book I borrowed and loved

9. a recipe a chef at a restaurant wrote for my team when we were doing a scavenger hunt at school

10. a prescription that I had renewed which consisted of the doctor scratching out the old date and scribbling the new one

11. 5 pens and 1 pencil

12. sunglasses

13. my fun watch

14. my dressy watch

15. light-bulbs to replace the two I broke in the same day in the same lamp

16. my I-Want-You-More prayer ring

17. casual earrings

18. 6 euros and 30 centesimi

19. lipstick

20. nail polish

21. plug adapter- American

22. plug adapter- German which all appliances use

23. a frequent shopper card to earn points from the printers where I buy ink

24. a frequent shopper card to earn points from my favorite store in the world (perfume, of course), but where I'm only allowed to go to buy sunscreen. Bummer.

25. my barrette I can't live without (I start the day with my hair down - but it rarely lasts!)

26. after: I actually put everything away in it's correct place!