The list below is the contents of my mom's 'silverware' drawer. I loosely call its contents silverware as this is the drawer in my mom's house where one has the highest probability of finding a piece of silverware that one might desire to use, for eating, or whatever. Many people use a tray to organize silverware. These conformist robots foolishly sort the silverware into seperate sections of the tray so that each time you reach for a desired piece, be it knife, or fork, or spoon, your hand easily finds the piece of silverware and withdraws it.

Now I ask you, where is the challenge in that? Isn't it more exciting to get a mild surprise when you want to get a fork or knife and instead withdraw a nearly-as-useful spoon?

Contents follow:

• Assorted miscellaneous flatware
• 2 packs Captain's Wafers: Cream Cheese and Chives Crackers
• 1 wire wisk
• 8 lids to sour cream, cottage cheese, yogurt containers
• 3 pickle jar lids
• 1 peanut butter jar lid, well cleaned
• 1 can of Chicken of the Sea Pink Crab
• 2 packets of soy sauce, Kimlan
• several ounces of whole cashews, roasted, salted, and stale
• spatula
• shears
• garlic press
• 36" gold-colored chain
• 1 pack Aqua drops breathmints
• 12 pieces, individually wrapped, Nicorette gum
• 1 pie knife
• 3 packets containing one moist towlette per packet
• 1 baking spatula
• 1 set disposable chopsticks
• 1 plastic grocery bag
• 1 potato peeler
• 1 corn holder
• 1 package of seeds
• 1 rubber band
• paperclips
• Roland kobe style mustard
• several twisty ties
• 1 fine tip artists paint brush, stained and battered
• 1 charcoal pencil
• 1 paring knife sharpener taped to a 3x5 piece of corrugated cardboard