Good thing we were keeping that

We recently put in new floors in most of our apartment - hardwood in the living room/kitchen/entry, and berber carpet in the bedrooms. This meant that we had to pack up most of our belongings, just to shuffle them out of the way during construction time. It's basically moving without going anywhere.

We're now in recovery mode, unpacking boxes and putting things where they go. However, we're not just restoring the status quo, we're taking the opportunity to cull some of the things that have been hiding in plain sight for years. Today, this meant going through our storage closet, and actually seeing what was in all these (illegally-owned) milk crates we had stacked up in there.

The contents of one of these crates struck Holly and me as so odd that I had to share... From one of these milk crates, we pulled out a bag that came across as some sort of bizarre murder kit. It contained:

• a rusty, heavy duty x-acto knife
  
• a roll of duct tape
  
• a pair of gardening gloves
  
• 20 ft of nylon rope
  
• 3 bungee cords
  
• tons and tons of bubble wrap
  
• a Cyndi Lauper "True Colors" cassette tape
  

Honestly (your honour), I have no idea what this stuff was all doing together. But it's been like that for the last five years, so if there was some dastardly deed planned, it's luckily been long forgotten.