Yes, today was bag day – or day two – of the Catholic rummage sale. I usually try very hard to use every cubic inch in my bag by putting one thing inside another and soft compressible things around hard ones. Then I give an extra donation because it’s not in being greedy or cheap; the fun in in the challenge.

I didn’t feel like that today, but I did give a donation anyway. And I found quite a few things to either tie onto Christmas gifts or to use to make little Christmas candy boxes for neighbors and such. And I stuffed the old tin lid for a pan in my  bag. Yesterday, I just let it go by – it would have cost perhaps a nickel –  because I thought “Oh, I’m done with collecting.”

Old kitchen things in my visual field are soothing – they remind me of Grandma and the old kitchen when I was little . . . which, by the way, is the same kitchen now that I am older. Some of them I use – potato ricer and the old two cup measure. Some I don’t use because I don’t know what they are. Some I tie on the Christmas tree up in the sitting room.

So there it was today – the pan lid, ignored and unwanted. And I put it in my bag. I will use it to set over something I don’t need a tighter cover for. It’s all lumpy and bent and just the way I like it. Aluminum cake covers are great too; I have some of those – can’t have too many. Some of the stuff has wooden handles painted red, and some painted sage green – a color that’s come back into vogue.

We try to keep the meat tenderizers – especially the one with the metal inserts – out of Summer’s easy reach. She has a temper.