Bakers Dozen

Stuff in Your Junk Drawer

  1. Take-out menus
  2. Garbage Bag Ties
  3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work

Stuff in Your Junk Drawer

  1. Take-out menus
  2. Garbage Bag Ties
  3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work
  4. Plastic bag clips

Peter Jackson also filmed much of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies in scenic NZ.

Stuff in Your Junk Drawer

  1. Take-out menus
  2. Garbage Bag Ties
  3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work
  4. Plastic bag clips
  5. Pens that long ago ran dry

Stuff in Your Junk Drawer

  1. Take-out menus
  2. Garbage Bag Ties
  3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work
  4. Plastic bag clips
  5. Pens that long ago ran dry
  6. Keys from two residences ago

Stuff in Your Junk Drawer

  1. Take-out menus
  2. Garbage Bag Ties
  3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work
  4. Plastic bag clips
  5. Pens that long ago ran dry
  6. Keys from two residences ago
  7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE

Stuff in Your Junk Drawer

  1. Take-out menus
  2. Garbage Bag Ties
  3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work
  4. Plastic bag clips
  5. Pens that long ago ran dry
  6. Keys from two residences ago
  7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE
  8. A roll of duct tape that I can’t find the end of

Stuff in Your Junk Drawer

  1. Take-out menus
  2. Garbage Bag Ties
  3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work
  4. Plastic bag clips
  5. Pens that long ago ran dry
  6. Keys from two residences ago
  7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE
  8. A roll of duct tape that I can’t find the end of
  9. A compass.

Stuff in Your Junk Drawer

  1. Take-out menus
  2. Garbage Bag Ties
  3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work
  4. Plastic bag clips
  5. Pens that long ago ran dry
  6. Keys from two residences ago
  7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE
  8. A roll of duct tape that I can’t find the end of
  9. A compass.
  10. Fast food napkins

Stuff in Your Junk Drawer

  1. Take-out menus
  2. Garbage Bag Ties
  3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work
  4. Plastic bag clips
  5. Pens that long ago ran dry
  6. Keys from two residences ago
  7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE
  8. A roll of duct tape that I can’t find the end of
  9. A compass.
  10. Fast food napkins
  11. Three rolls of half used clear packing tape.

Stuff in Your Junk Drawer

  1. Take-out menus
  2. Garbage Bag Ties
  3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work
  4. Plastic bag clips
  5. Pens that long ago ran dry
  6. Keys from two residences ago
  7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE
  8. A roll of duct tape that I can’t find the end of
  9. A compass.
  10. Fast food napkins
  11. Three rolls of half used clear packing tape
  12. Some spare blades for box cutters

No idea where the box cutters are

Stuff in Your Junk Drawer

  1. Take-out menus

  2. Garbage Bag Ties

  3. A nine-volt battery that may or may not still work

  4. Plastic bag clips

  5. Pens that long ago ran dry

  6. Keys from two residences ago

  7. A tiny bottle of Tabasco from an MRE

  8. A roll of duct tape that I can’t find the end of

  9. A compass.

  10. Fast food napkins

  11. Three rolls of half used clear packing tape

  12. Some spare blades for box cutters

  13. Several tiny ziploc bags of small computer screws.
    Next: Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies.

  14. Breakfast cereal.

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Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies.

  1. Breakfast cereal
  2. Bottled water

Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies.

  1. Breakfast cereal
  2. Bottled water
  3. Pharmaceuticals

If more specific is needed, I’ll say “aspirin in a hospital”.

Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies.

  1. Breakfast cereal
  2. Bottled water
  3. Pharmaceuticals
  4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters

Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies.

  1. Breakfast cereal
  2. Bottled water
  3. Pharmaceuticals
  4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters
  5. Coffee

Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies.

  1. Breakfast cereal
  2. Bottled water
  3. Pharmaceuticals
  4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters
  5. Coffee
  6. Diamonds

OK, still not cheap, but far more common than the industry would have you believe.

Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies.

  1. Breakfast cereal
  2. Bottled water
  3. Pharmaceuticals
  4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters
  5. Coffee
  6. Diamonds
  7. Mozzarella Cheese

Mozzarella is by far the cheapest and easiest chees to make, requiring a much short aging period, but it costs the same as all other hard cheeses. It should be about half the price of other mild cheeses.

Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies.

  1. Breakfast cereal
  2. Bottled water
  3. Pharmaceuticals
  4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters
  5. Coffee
  6. Diamonds
  7. Mozzarella Cheese
  8. Epinephrine (Adrenalin)

Cheap, common things made expensive by corporate marketing and/or monopolies.

  1. Breakfast cereal
  2. Bottled water
  3. Pharmaceuticals
  4. Food and drink purchased in movie theaters
  5. Coffee
  6. Diamonds
  7. Mozzarella Cheese
  8. Epinephrine (Adrenalin)
  9. Cable TV stations

Which are supported by advertising revenue, but charge cable companies to air their commercials, which is passed on to the consumer.