Coin Purses and Me

In our further adventures of what is under the bed, let us look and see what's in this shoe box. Ah! It seems to be various small purses, random jewelry and barrettes and quite a few foreign coins.

The coin purses and such I don't particularly need, but they have been gifts or things I've had since childhood, so I can't give them away. One of them has coins in it, pennies from every year I've been alive - although at some point I stopped putting pennies in it - I hope that doesn't mean anything. That particular purse is also full of these stretchy band things that I had when I was a kid that were a things children were supposed to weave into a headband. They are in bright, florescent colors. Somewhere there's a photograph of me in such a headband, and my outfit could not match less. I'll see if I can find it.

There's an ankh in there somewhere from middle school or so. I've always been interested in different cultures and religions. There was also a Garfield special from when I was little where the plot line centered around an ankh.

The yellow thing is one of those random bits of plastic from the 80s - this one was for when a girl wore a shirt that was really long, and you would thread a corner of the shirt through this thing and then ... that's what you would do.

There are also a few 80s type bracelets. Besides the fact that I'm sure that there will be some sort of 80s party of in my future, they are just too much a part of my past.

And then the coins. I have coins from my trips to Mexico, England, Canada, along with random coins I've picked up along the way like from Hong Kong. And there's also an envelope with paper money - several $2 bills, some Russian money, and colorful French money - which I suppose will eventually become valuable since it ain't like they're printing that anymore.

I wish I had more uses for these things ... or a nicer way to keep the coins ... but I think they'll all be fine for right now.