Things found in my laundry money bowl...

We don't have washer/dryer hookups in our apartment, so we are still laundering in the world of coin-op. On our entry way table is a little clay bowl whose sole purpose is to collect quarters for laundry, but over time it has collected a myriad of other small items as well:

• two spare keys to my car, and one to Luis's
• €10 bill. Also €2.32 in change
• three identification badges bearing my name and photo: one for a hospice agency where I used to volunteer, one for my work, one for the hospital where I have clinicals
• two red plastic tokens, each good for a free taco at Taco Johns
• three rubber bands
• rusted fork divot repair tool
• several keys of unknown origin
• small green bouncy ball
• two zinc lozenges
• Red Cross blood donor pin
• poker chip from a casino in Vancouver, BC
• tiny safety pin
• cheap ring from when Sammy and I got married at the Foresters' Ball
• swipe cards to various grocers and video rental stores - the little ones that are hole punched, because these merchants are under the impression that I desire half a dozen tiny barcoded plastic bits on my key ring
• valve stem from a river tube

...and finally, down at the very bottom, $8.25 in quarters. Time to do some laundry.