Melissa has been working on cleaning up the master bedroom and then doing little things to help "stage" it. I asked her if she had thrown or given anything away during the day and she said, "Oh yes... I just threw away a whole bunch of jewelry."
"You threw away JEWELRY??"
Then she showed me the "jewelry" in question. It was an assortment of lapel pins and necklaces. Most of the pins said something like "Best Teacher" or the like. Some were homemade - perhaps by a kindergartener, from the looks of them. And most of the "jewelry" was big and gaudy - the sort of thing only a kindergarten teacher would wear - and Melissa admitted to wearing all of it in the past.
I'm sure each was a very special gift at the time, but now it's clutter and it gets thrown. I suggested she take some of it to Goodwill and Melissa replied, "What? And risk inflicting some other teacher with it?"
And I almost forgot another Throw that day - the most "dangerous" Throw so far. We threw away two key chains loaded with keys. Couldn't identify a single lock any of them opened! But my fear is that in the process of packing and moving, we will discover some chest or locked suitcase and will then be smacking our heads in regret...
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