Coat pockets

Today I was going through the pockets on a few of my fall/winter coats that used to hang on the coat rack in our living room but since we put the house on the market they have been living in the bottom of my closet.  These coats are, oddly enough, one of the few winter items I left out when packing up 1/2 of our belongings when I was assured by our realtor that our house would "sell quickly".

Good things I found:
-A tube of lip balm that I have been looking for FOREVER.  I was so pissed that I couldn't find it when I was packing my hospital bag for Adrianna.  It's THAT good.
-48 cents.  Random?  Yes.  But hey, money is money.  Even if it did go straight into the kids' savings jar.  Which is actually an old milk jar that Greg found and it is pretty badass.

Bad things I found:
-About 20 used Kleenex.  This is disgusting and interesting at the same time.  Disgusting for obvious reasons but interesting because I'm a nurse and a mother and I'm very well versed in how germs spread.  So rather than throwing the germ-infested Kleenex away as soon as I used them (or as soon as I got home if there was no trash can nearby) I wad them up and stuff them into my coat pocket.  I've also found that I do this when I'm at work and there are plenty of trash cans handy.  Yet nearly everyday when I get home (on days that I'm sick.  I don't just shove dirty Kleenex in my pocket when I'm the picture of health) I find at least one used Kleenex mixed in amongst my pens, scissors, Alcohol pads, pen light and any other random object that has fallen into my scrub pockets.  I don't know why I do this.  Maybe because my mom is always preaching to me telling me the benefits about recycling but I think that even SHE would think this is taking it a little too far.  That will be my September resolution.  Stop wadding up used Kleenex and shoving them into my coat pockets.  But then again, September isn't really coat season and by the time October rolls around I will have long forgotten about this.  Oh well.  Better luck next year!