Pocket Change

What do you have in your pockets?
 
Monday: two pennies, the aglet from a shoe lace,a gum wrapper and the broken top half of a ball point pen.

Tuesday: flimsy fake Discover card from the mail, three rocks (two actual rocks and a piece of concrete), two blue pipe cleaners, 4 tiny fuzzy pompoms (blue, yellow, orange and pink) from an abandoned art project and an earring back(?)

Wednesday: two more pennies plus a nickel, a broken toothpick, a yu-gi-oh card ( Hysteric Fairy), paper clip, blue glittery super ball, cherry jolly rancher wrapper and one green die.  And that's just one pocket

Thursday:Thread from "Bluey" his favorite blanket, a small stick, 3 green, two pink, one brown, one orange and a purple "purler" bead (anyone with small children in day care will know what those are), a small square white bead with the letter "a" on it, a folded up scooby-doo coloring page to be finished at a later date.

Friday: More letter beads, this time "q", "t", "o" ,"w" and a "p" (qwopt - of course!), a black piece of stretchy elastic about 3" long, the sticker from an apple and a power rangers fruit snack package with one slighty melted, squishy gummy thing still in residence.

Saturday: Shorts with no pockets. Where did he stash his treasures?

Sunday: A very big day, cargo pants-lots of pockets. Perfume sample from the Sunday paper- Taboo, Neo-pet card (Yellow  Shyru) from some long ago Mcdonalds Happy Meal, the summer pool schedule from the community center,  the pink eraser from a pencil-but no pencil, a bottle cap, tire off a hot wheels car, piece of red ribbon (his favorite color) the spring from a ball point pen stretched to about 5", the head to a lego guy and a battery.
 
These are the treasures I found in my seven year olds pockets one week. I have an old kitchen cannister that I put all these treasures in and when it is full maybe we will take them out and try and figure out why these things are the ones that he deemed worthy of saving. Yet he passed by the pink glass bead that was on the floor in the bathroom for a week and the three sea shells and blue feather I left on the table to see if they would make their way into his pocket of treasures but they never did.
 
I was at the post office picking up the mail from work one day and there was $.87 due. I reached into my jacket pockets and I had my ever present "folding dollars" (to be explained in a later post), a pokemon card (squirtle), three paper clips, two grape jolly ranchers, a pack of Cherry Rush bubble gum, a green marble,  a  hot wheels car ,two small rocks and a red power ranger action figure that try as I might she would not take it trade. I had no actual pocket change, well there was my "folding dollars" but I couldn't spend those. I have been infected by my seven year old, his penchant for picking up the bits of flotsam that he encounters on his daily journey has become my own. At least my "pocket change" is more interesting than it used to be.
 
So, what's in your pockets?