tkingfisher:

telophase14:

ursula-vernon:

Image found in a file folder in the historical society archives, under
“Miscellaneous.” Other items filed under “Miscellaneous” include
numerous manuals for appliances, somebody’s tax return (you know who you
are), an extremely moldy grilled cheese sandwich and a birdhouse
completely covered in duct tape.

The birdhouse was removed and filed more safely. The sandwich was thrown away.

I’ve worked in museums. This is not fanciful. In one memorable museum my fellow assistant curator and I found a pallet full of boxes of auctioned US government surplus brownie mix (expired), two palettes of white painters’ pants (size medium), several foot lockers full of summer dresses with handwritten labels pinned inside them reading “Mostly Useless”, artifacts wrapped in bizarre packing material including used lunch bags and used tissues, and a box of random office supplies that included an old, flat, dead toad someone had obviously peeled off a parking lot.

Twenty years on and I still have no idea what constitutes a mostly useless summer dress.

I cannot even tell you how much joy that fills me with.