A yellow writing folder containing our incomplete grade seven English class writing portfolio and covered in the remnants of a collage that demonstrates our one-time devotion to saving the whales [SEE ALSO (maybe): Le Kit; award-worthy sticker album]. The contents are mildly embarrassing but mostly dull, and this folder is notable primarily for our teacher’s prescient comment about our “promise as a writer” and “lack of sustained effort.”

Dollar value: $0.00, unless we become a famous novelist

Nostalgia value: Less nostalgic and more embarrassing

Disposal status: removed from basement, rammed into our “old work” file, waiting to be recycled in a fit of irritation