In every house, there is a drawer or a corner where things, which might be handy some day, slowly pile up and turn into a museum of lost hopes one day. Curious what everyone actually keeps but never uses, we went online, asked people and came across these 14 objects that fit the bill perfectly.
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Fancy guest towels
You have a set of “for guests only” towels in a drawer somewhere, and the day that you actually pull them out is a day that never seems to come. They stay folded up, crisp and, if you’re fancy, scented, while your everyday towels are washed to thread. Guests never even know they’re there.
Decorative jars of homemade jam
In your kitchen is a jar of holiday jam or pickles. You pictured the day you’d finally open it, but that day never comes. Gradually the food loses its freshness, but the jar won’t leave. Too pretty to toss, too forgotten to eat.
Freezer-burned meat
You always have a chicken breast, fillet of fish, or steak buried in the back of your freezer “just in case someone comes over.” It gets months old, ice crystals form, and the thought of actually having to cook it fills you with dread. But you can’t bring yourself to throw it away.
Old foreign currency
You visit another country. When you get back home you put your spare change and bills in a drawer. You keep them for “next time” when you visit that country again, even if you have no plans to do so. And who knows if the exchange rate even matters anymore.
Craft supplies from an abandoned hobby
You have a box of beads or yarn or paint that you saved for “maybe I’ll start again someday.” You know in your heart that you never will, but throwing it all out is like giving up. And so it remains, in its box, untouched for years.
Souvenir shot glasses
You’ve picked these up on vacations or received them as gifts. They remain perfectly aligned on a shelf, “For a fun night someday.” But in most homes, those miniature glasses never get used, only occasionally dusted.
Too-small clothes that “might fit again”
Ah, the skinny jeans or little black dress you know you’ll fit into someday. Closets across the country are filled with clothing that’s been tucked away for decades (and dragged through multiple moves) waiting for that magical day to come.
Expired travel-sized toiletries
Hotel toiletries get stashed in a drawer “For emergencies.” But by the time anyone actually checks, the little bottles are sticky, discolored, or leaking.
Old instruction manuals
People hang onto thick, paper instruction manuals for appliances that they don’t even own anymore. “Just in case I need to know how it worked,” they think. Year after year, the stack never gets opened.
Rolls of wrapping paper too pretty to cut
Someone purchases an attractive roll of gift wrap but then decides it’s too nice to use. So it gets stuffed into a corner of a closet, to be “kept for the perfect occasion,” which never happens.
Old spice mixes
You buy a special spice blend for a dish you want to make and it ends up sitting in the back of the pantry. You vow to use it “the next time I make that dish” but then you don’t make that dish again and the spices lose their potency.
“Maybe one day” party hats
That box of silly hats from a birthday or New Year’s party sits untouched in the back of a cupboard. You keep thinking, “I’ll use them for the next fun occasion,” but that day never comes.
Vintage tea bags or specialty coffee samples
You know that mini sample tea bag of gourmet tea or coffee you saved? It’s one that most people forget they even have, but that they hang on to, and it sits with the rest of the boxes and bags of normal tea/coffee.
Jewelry
We all (women, in particular) buy a necklace, a ring, or earrings and think that we will put them on for the special night. In the end, they remain in boxes, quietly twinkling, and ordinary days pass one by one.
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