Fodder

fod·der    (fdr)
n.

1. Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.
2. Raw material, as for artistic creation.
3. A consumable, often inferior item or resource that is in demand and usually abundant supply: romantic novels intended as fodder for the pulp fiction market.
4. Small toys laying around the house that no one wants until someone else plays with it.
5. Computer components that when thrown away become something that was saved for a necessary project.
6. Mail order magazines that entice one to buy for the holidays.
7. Video tapes that no one watches anymore but are "irreplaceable" if disposed of.
8. Cookbooks that have that one receipe that can't be lived without.
9. 17 cup koozies rescued from the work trash from a company that does not exist anymore
10. Christmas lights that do not work but can be used for "extra bulbs"
11. Bricks left over from the fireplace that we "just might need someday"
12. Wood in various sizes and shapes that are for another necessary project
13. "Gimmie Caps" from various computer companies, football teams, colleges, and one time events.
14. Cassette tapes from '80 stay in college
15. Sewing and craft supplies from when there was time to make things

Comments

[Katie Barr]

Wow, we have a lot of fodder at our house! I always wondered what it was called. I have just called it "stuff" up to now. But come to think of it, my MIL used to tell us that whatever we didn't want in the huge boxes of thrift store finds she sent us could be used as "garage sale fodder." (This was before we put our foot--feet?-- down and said no more huge boxes of thrift store finds for us.)

Thanks for the laugh!

[Ann V. HolyExperience]

Really? You still have all those tapes from the 80s too? LOL!

Big smile!
Ann V. HolyExperience