Unpacking Six Shoehorns.

Today I was unpacking a box that held things that lived in my top dresser drawer. The dresser is actually a serpentine front chest of drawers with ball and claw feet and brass fittings. There are four drawers but the top one is smaller. This chest became a bedroom dresser during one of the times I moved back to NYC and no longer had a dining room.  I cannot fit a lot of clothes in it, mainly underwear and t-shirts. The rest of my wardrobe, especially jeans, socks and exercise clothes are an ongoing problem. (I have a separate bag of socks for various occasions like wearing with running shoes socks, only for white sneakers socks, heavy winter socks and black pants socks.)

The top drawer (the smaller one) is where things like sunglasses, silk scarves, a clump of jewelry that needs to be untangled, shoe laces, a tin of pins, a small jar of pot and like that were kept. Probably some socks would be a better use for this drawer.

Apparently there were also six shoe horns in this drawer. Two faux tortoise shell ones from The Beverly Wilshire Hotel; one faux tortoise shell one of the same size from The Brookshire Hotel when I was working on a real estate project for the Baltimore Inner Harbor; a plain black plastic one; an aluminum one and lastly, a very beautiful one that is 14 inches long and looks to be made of bone but it could be plastic and I don’t know where it came from. Maybe it belonged to my ex-husband.

For now I will put the shoe horns back in the top drawer. I know I don’t NEED six shoe horns but it isn’t always easy to just throw things out. I believe it’s best to re-assign things and find them the right home. Perhaps my son and son-in-law will get one in his Christmas stocking. Or my grandsons. I have three of those so I’d be five shoe horns lighter. But for now, they will go back in the drawer.