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I bought a pack of three small cheap calculators the other day for $6.99.

An Elpha rolling cart with seven wire drawers.

A silver compote with a pyrex insert. It was a wedding present.

Five serving trays. Three electric warming trays.

At least a couple of dozen books on tape.

Several dozen tapes and accompanying guides for learning languages...mostly French, a few German, Russian, Italian.

An antique dresser and a modern campaign style one.

Probably five dozen shot and cordial glasses.

A wooden side table that is made to look like a stack of books.

A bulletin board, wine charm holder (with several sets of charms), trivet and a couple of coasters made from wine corks by my Aunt Cappy.

A dozen or more Tupperware or Rubbermaid food containers.

Two tennis racquets and a racquetball racquet.

We bought a tray, six little plates, a new clock.

Two ink jet printers.

Computers. Seven that I know work. A couple of questionable ones.

Trays. Four different sort of art deco ones. And three warming trays that you plug in to keep food hot.

A whimsical wooden construction set called Zolo.

A wooden rolling pin that belonged to my mother (and maybe someone before her). I took it from my parents' house after she died because (1) I doubted my dad would use it; (2) I didn't have one and had some vague idea I needed one; and (3) there was a marble one at their house.

A stool that rolls and then becomes stable when you step on it.

Four pitchers: a plastic one, an aluminum one, a ceramic one and a chrome one.

On June 11, 2004, I got rid of stuff. But, probably, nothing in the countdown.

Got a new vase today for the new bathroom.

A couple of glass candy dishes with mints.

A decorative item with glass pieces that move around like planets when wound up while a music box plays a tune.

Five little Eiffel towers, all different sizes.

A Cabin Light Panel for lighting photos or viewing slides.

A rubber chicken.

An easel.

An ostrich egg on a stand.

A wire hen with ten eggs and a twelve-sided figure of some kind of stone and a darning egg inside.

Several dozen maps. At least three editions of map books for Austin, street maps of Austin, Houston, Dallas. Maps of Paris and Berlin, various parts of France.Maps of Montreal and Toronto. Maps of places that, when I go back again, will probably deserve new maps. One of my favorite maps is my Michelin Paris Map Number 10 attached to the Number 12 Street Index Cover. I don't think it's made anymore having been replaced by the Number 55.

Two reflecting balls.