Trash or Treasure?

Living in graduate student housing definitely has its advantages. One of the stranger ones is the existence of “Free Rooms.” With students coming and going so frequently, you get some interesting phenomena's. One is that most people when they leave don’t want to take much with them. So the advent of “Free Rooms”. These are just the Laundry Rooms, but they have become the unspoken designated area to drop of any and all unwanted items. Each time you enter there are new discarded items just left there to rummage through. Sometimes it’s just a few misc. pots and pans or old kitchen items. Sometimes it’s a stack of Chinese comic books. Other times it’s complete wardrobes - and if it’s your size and style, you are in luck. Yesterday someone was giving up their complete collection of children’s books. Harrison, who has been engrossed in reading books since he has discovered that you can get new ones at the library, was quite excited about the prospect of getting a whole stack of new books. I weeded through them, and managed to find a few (maybe too many) worth keeping. Sam told him that he would have to throw away some of his books at home to make room for the new ones, and he ran in the house singing a song about throwing away all his books. His favorite, by far, is a National Geographic about Dinosaurs. He flips through the whole thing searching for the pictures of Dinosaurs. I have also realized that with these new books, they are interesting and new enough that he will sit and browse them on his own. He sat through sacrament meeting today, reverently and quietly looking at his “Laundry Room” books, as he calls them.

Mollie