My Mom's "Lid" Drawer
And, every time you force it open, out come the bread ties, spare string wrapped around a pencil that hasn't been sharpened since 1959, and a small super ball that looks like an eye ball that I placed in the drawer for safe-keeping in 1964. It was the place to go in the time of need for something of aid when in dire straits.
When my eyeglasses broke one weekend in the fifth grade, I went to the lid drawer for a bread tie. Socks falling down? "Get a rubber band out of the lid drawer." You could always find some spare change in there, too. I had a falling out with the lid drawer in the Seventh Grade when a friend spent the night and turned her mouth in disgust when asking for a paper clip for her book report. "Look in the lid drawer," I said. "The WHAT drawer? We only use Tupperware."
Until recently, when my fiance helped me pack my kitchen while moving after living at the same residence for fourteen years, I had wiped the memory of the "lid drawer" from my mind.
"You're gonna throw out this stuff, aren't you?" he asked after jerking open the drawer in the far corner of the kitchen."Nnnooo! Don't touch that drawer," I yelled.
"What do you need all of the lids for? You don't have that many containers. And what the heck do you need all of these wine corks for? This is all junk."
"Junk!? How do you think we store all of the leftovers that you cook? And when I start all of my seedlings in the spring, are you gonna wipe up the water that leaks out? No. Because I put those lids underneath the pots. And when you get around to staining that table, are you just going to let the stain just drip all over the floor? And what about when we can't find a coaster? Are you gonna let that drink put a ring on your newly-stained table? And . . ."
My fiance pulled the lids out of the trash and packed them up to move to their new drawer. I realized that you can't fight frugality . . . and why? At least I don't keep a rubber band ball. My brother does.
Becky from Charlotte, NC
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