Things you don’t know what to do with

I have noticed, as life goes on, that there are certain items that one may acquire over time that if left unused, become basically useless for anything else even if the item is of high quality or just looks nice. These things end up in junk drawers or desk drawers or on top of that small, rather unused end table you have sitting in the corner of the dining room that only gets noticed when the dust gets about a 1/4 of an inch thick. And when you do notice these little items (they’re usually small) where ever they’re sitting, it always comes down to the same old “it’s so nice, I can’t throw that out” or some such thing like that. Now don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about, I know you do. Anyway, I came across one of these “items” the other day which will soon become obsolete with the changing of the year. One of those really nice looking 3-1/2″ by 6″ calendar books with the whole year divided up by days with those beautiful little maps in the back, “mileage between cities” charts in print so small you couldn’t read it without a magnifying glass, a place to put your phone numbers and addresses and this little beauty is even up to date with a page full of common web sites (airlines, rentals, AAA, etc), a weights and measures page and even emergency first aid instructions.

I’m sure you’ve seen these things before. They can be made up and embossed with any company’s logo. They have small gold-colored metal reinforcing around the corners of the covers and the pages are edged in gold, sheesh! You’d think this thing would cost $25.00 or something. This happens to be one I got a work and maybe I’ve written on a whole two pages out of an entire year and therein lies the problem. What do you do with something like this? Has anyone ever seen anyone using one of these things? Have you ever asked someone you were with what they were doing on a given Saturday for instance and actually have them whip one of these little babies out and flip through the pages mumbling something like “let me see now…”? I know I haven’t. Anyway, my little calendar book (that I haven’t used) has less than 1-1/2 months left to live and I don’t know what I’m going to do with it. I’ve already received the 2007 calendar book from work (which I probably won’t use either) which is the same as this one so now I have two! Oh well…I suppose I’ll just have to throw this one out. No…wait! Inside the front cover there’s a 5 inch ruler along the outer edge(!) and the the back cover has the same ruler in millimeters! I can’t throw it out now! I might need to measure something someday and there won’t be any rulers in the house. This will be all I have! I’ll just put it on this end table here and, oops…better dust it first…