Keys and clutter

It sure felt like spring yesterday. It got up to 64 and looks to hang around for 2-3 more days. Then we are back into the 40's haha. 

The ham and cheese sliders we had for dinner were good and some leftovers for lunch today. We also had some watermelon with it. I will sometimes buy the watermelon already cut up. I don't know if it's just me or what, but the last couple of years this precut watermelon seems to really have no taste. It's been so long since I bought a whole watermelon I think I forgot the taste of a good watermelon. This summer I'm going to just buy a whole watermelon and cut it up (so it fits and stores in the fridge) and see if it has some flavor to it.

Last night I remembered I forgot to watch this weeks episode of Resident Alien, so I watched that. The writers of the show seem to be pingponging back and forth between really funny episodes and one's that are just kind of "eh". 

I was cleaning out my desk drawer - somehow I have ended up with quite the collection of mystery keys, LOL. Almost 30 keys. I know some of them are my moms - in moving her (2x) I took what keys I found, just in case. Plus over the years I got keys to who knows what. I think some are old mailbox keys. I know one is my old key to get into the office at work (we've since moved offices, LOL). A couple look like house keys, probably duplicates made. I also know I used to have keys to both my parents and my inlaws houses, so a couple are likely that. I don't know why it feels like I shouldn't throw them out....just in case they are for something we need...Oh and I'm pretty sure 2 of them, on a little red string are from my diary when I was 12 😂. One is a key to a Chyrsler...we've never had a Chrysler, I don't think. Maybe it's an old key from my mom's keys, but I don't recall them ever owning that make of car.  My stepdad had a company car years and years ago, maybe it from that. I do know one of the rings with 2 keys I took from my mom. Up until she moved into m/c she had this metal file cabinet that locked and also a small box safe and the keys were for that. I had taken the keys with me, so that she couldn't accidentally lock it up and then hide the keys never to be found again. I think some are to old locking filing cabinets. So, I need to throw away a bunch of keys today.

I just want to keep going through stuff and getting rid of the "junk". There are still drawers to go through. I did throw out an old pair of sandals last week, so that's 2 shoes tossed recently. By no means do I have a cluttered house, at all, but there certainly are lots of things no longer used/needed, etc that can just go. 

While I was just in the kitchen, making dh's egg sandwich, I decided to empty out the big pullout drawer of all the tupperware type containers and lids. I recently bought some nice glass ones with locking lids, so I need to get rid of a bunch of the plastic ones. A lot of them are containers from lunch meat. They were nice to keep for leftovers. I'd decide to keep an empty one, put the container and lid in the drawer, at the same time. Use a container with a lid, at the same time. Wash them when done and put back. So, how I have a whole bunch of containers with no lids is beyond me. Where did they go? I also have a whole bunch of lids that match nothing, as well. Just one of those mysteries of life, I guess. I'm going to get rid of most of it, since I have the glass containers now. Before I throw them in the garbage I'll ask dh if he wants any of them - he might want to store bits and pieces of stuff and could use some of them.

Yesterday I mailed the IRS form 1310, along with a copy of her tax return (that I filed electronically back in January), so I am hoping this fixes the issue and her refund gets issued. It's no small dollar amount, so I'd like to get it resolved. I also keep hoping that her last social security payment will show up in the mail one of these days. They sent me a form to fill out to claim her last payment quite awhile ago. It's my understanding that the payment she received in January (2 days after her death) is for December, so she is owed this. They direct deposited this January payment and then like a week or two later retracted the payment out of her checking. (Geez...what if I would have spent it? or didn't realize it came out and overdrew her account? They could have at least sent a notice it was being retracted). Then they sent me a form to fill out saying they owe her the final month... Ok....so pay it, LOL. 

I also just did an unclaimed money/property search for my mom and it shows something owed to her from Walgreens for under $25, LOL. I put in a claim, as heir/no probate, so we'll see what may come of it. I also did a search on US Treasury - like savings bonds and such. Interesting that my SS# came up. Boy, that's a hard one to figure out. I've bought savings bonds a few times in the past - we had given them out as prizes to the race kids. I don't recall the details of purchasing them, but I likely had to put my name and ss# as the purchaser? I'm pretty sure we cashed in all the bonds my kids had won, but I'm guessing this could be some bonds I purchased on behalf of other kids that they never cashed? I'll have to look into that a bit more and see what I can find out.