After a Bank Holiday I always have loads of phone calls to do for DH. The business phone is in the hall on a really old knee hole desk that we have had all our married lives (I can't actually remember where we acquired it). This morning I was waiting for a few phone calls back so decided that I would sort out the desk drawers while I was waiting.
There is one drawer where we store maps, another where we store receipts, another 3 that are business related, another which has a tangle of cables for phones etc (I closed that one quickly!), one with old diaries, which we keep for reference (though I'm not sure we need them back to 1998!) and one 'dumping drawer'.
I decided to tackle the 'dumping drawer' and, right at the bottom, I found 6 cassette tapes (7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Meat Loaf and Perry Como among them) two fountain pens plus cartridges, 2 set squares plus a bag full of sticky labels with the address of our last house on.
We moved here almost 24 years ago! 
It was over 40 yrs ago cayuga so I doubt it is in the fridge. Thanks for the suggestion though 
We moved 5 years ago and had similar collections and discoveries. My DH hates getting rid of books but I insisted we sift through the few 100s we had. We discovered at least 40 double copies (same editions)
and we did get rid of boxfuls..as yet we have not missed them!! We are trying hard not to re collect stuff. We do not use the loft but do have a large store shed and a potting shed which both seem to be filling up with alarming speed!
A few months back the rear bulb went on the reversing lights on my car. When I got home DH said he thought he had one in the garage so I left him to it. When he came in he said " All sorted, I knew that would come in handy one day"
It was a bulb from an old Cortina we had in 1974!!, and that bulb had moved house with us 5 times over the years 
Penstemmon
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