• three very small notebooks. these are ridiculously hard to throw away.
• a little pile of scrap paper. even more ridiculous to keep these.
• one eyeglasses case. probably have glasses to recycle, too.

• two folding chairs. requested by their long-ago owner just as i was wondering what to do with them.
• two large glass marbles. such nice things, marbles.
• one container of jewelry-making supplies. a historical pursuit.

• a pack of crayons. there must be billions of crayons in the world. billions.
• a big stack of cardboard picture frames. school pictures come in these. silly, and bulky.
• a few school pictures. doubles, triples, quadruples. because who ever gets around to distributing them?

• six coat hooks. which may look lovely in someone else's hallway.

• one package antihistamines. don't work for asthma.
• one tiny bar of soap. stinky.
• one tiny bottle of lotion. same.
• one bottle calamine lotion. kept mainly for the nostalgic lou reed reference.
• one bottle cough syrup. the effective stuff makes me high, the stuff that doesn't make me high is ineffective. a losing situation.

• a dozen little kids' books. including five for our new favorite baby.

• four mice, one owl, five penguins. there is a toy chest in my house which may soon be on the curb.