- Shoeboxes containing Christmas tree ornaments individually wrapped in newspaper, two
- Plastic water bottles, the kind you might use while hiking, two
- Box containing some kind of insulating tiles for soundproofing (maybe?), one
- Carry-on sized suitcase, one, in which was packed the following:
- Dog bowls, two (one plastic, one wooden)
- Ceramic bowl decorated with dogs that the kids bought him one year for Christmas, one
- Was it meant for humans or dogs to drink out of? We could never tell. It was from Anthropologie, so I don’t think it was ever intended to have any use-value as such
- Zip-lock bag of dry dog food, one
- Black white bandanna, one
- Pair of Williams sweatpants, one
- Monogrammed residency graduation jacket, one
- T-shirts, two
- striped, one
- with some kind of nihilist quotation on it, one
- Bills, two
- Long letter his ex-girlfriend wrote him after he met me and broke up with her, one
- Contact lenses, an odd number—which is always irritating with contact lenses, isn’t it
- Clothing that belonged to his Mom that I kept after we went through a bunch of her old clothes and were deciding what to give to Goodwill, three items
- fleece socks, one pair
- Cream-colored linen dress that I kept because I thought it was pretty, but I never wore it, one
- Her wedding ring, which I zipped in the right-hand pocket of her fleece jacket; at first I put it in with the contact lenses in a zip-lock bag but that felt wrong, one
- Beach umbrella, one
- Boogie boards, three (three!)
- Beach chair, one
- Foldable cart for carrying beach gear, one
- Beach bag, one, in which I housed:
- Several Russian dolls, well-used and well-loved in this house. They will be missed