Another member of the “Might as well take this opportunity to clean out my wallet club” checking in (* denotes item not returned to its compartment):
2005 schedule for Indiana Fever (WNBA team)
*Faded receipts for Borders, Walgreen’s
$18 cash
*Tickets for long-since-passed raffles
*Church opinion survey form I never turned in
*Receipt for Gray Brothers Cafeteria
3 moist towelettes (you never know when they might come in handy)
Curad bandage
*Receipt for guest pass I purchased when I accompanied my sweetie, Long Time First Time, to a veterinary conference in Florida last January
*Lunch receipt from that trip
*2004-05 Purdue schedule for men’s and women’s basketball (two copies!)
*2003, 2004 Fever schedules
*2004 Purdue volleyball schedule
*Ticket stubs for various women’s basketball games
*Sheets filled with various notes I’ve taken
*Bank receipts (I will hold on to one for checking account and one for savings account so I know my account numbers and balances)
*Receipt from Artists’ Own (bought a print there for Long Time First Time’s birthday last year)
70-cent postage stamp (for a postcard sent to an address outside the USA, Canada, or Mexico)
Three 20-cent stamps (domestic postcard rate)
*So many receipts I’m not going to mention any more of the businesses unless a really interesting company comes along
Empty Subway Sub Club card (plus two Sub Club stamps acquired at a different Subway outlet)
*Vouchers for St. John’s River Manatee Tour we took while in Florida
*Fall 2004 Purdue sports schedule
Pass for one free admission to Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame with purchase of one adult admission (no expiration date)
Window decal for BOILERmaker NETwork (Purdue women’s basketball fan club)
*Three expired annual membership cards to said NETwork (don’t blame me for the funky orthographic styling)
*Expired “Win a Free Pizza” (every 25th caller gets medium single-topping pizza after raking automated two-minute survey) coupon from Donato’s
Indiana identification card (which I’ll now need to show when I vote)
*Holiday Inn room key card promoting the then-upcoming SpongeBob Squarepants Movie
*Room key card from Hilton Milwaukee City Center (souvenir of, you may have guessed it, a veterinary conference)
*Another no-longer-valid room entry card, this one from an unknown hostelry
2002 Sports Illustrated Pocket Calendar promoting that year’s 18-month swimsuit calendar (hey, if anyone ever idly asks me what day June 25 fell on that year, I’ll be able to answer at a moment’s notice)
Cleveland Public Library card (never expires, so I can use it if I visit my old stomping grounds in Northeast Ohio)
Apartment key, plus UPC-emblazoned piece of cardboard from which key (replacement for lost original) was removed
Business cards from Buckles Feed Depot & Pet Supply; Giana Eden Pottery; Lafayette Savings Bank; sculptor Linda LeMar (“one of a kind terra-cotta planters and art objects”)
2001 (year I moved to Lafayette) membership card for Western Reserve Post Card Society, a club in which I was active when I lived in Ohio
Photos of my sweetie’s three kids
And last, but by no means least:
Newspaper clipping of a letter written by Stephanie McCarty (as Indiana high-school, Purdue University, and Indiana Fever basketball legend Stephanie White was known during her brief marriage) in which she thanks the people and organizations who supported a charity golf outing she helped organize. Steph was indirectly responsible for my sweetie and I getting together, and will thus always hold a special place in our hearts.
