Another Brilliant Idea Down the Toilet

I do laundry-

Lots of laundry.

Three to four loads of laundry,

At least twice a week-

It's like my hobby.

After a few mishaps with markers and melted crayon,

I took my wife's advice and started checking ALL

(not most)

Of the pants pockets

(front AND back)

Before they got chucked

Into the washing machine.

The things I found

Were fascinating to me.

Discarded bits of my kids' life.

A guitar pick

A piece of string

Half of an eraser

A hand drawn cartoon folded into a rectangle

A ticket

I thought,

If taken in sum,

These biweekly treasures that were important enough to squirrel away in their jeans 

Might paint a picture of who my kids are.

I thought it would be an interesting art project

To photograph these things,

This junk,

This crap.

And make a blog of just the pictures without comment.

I was going to call it www.crapinmykidspants.com

But the URL was already taken

You shouldn't go there

It's gross.