#mystery item

[archerinventive]

Mystery object.

While helping to clean out my Grandparents office I found this mystery item.

I was curious if anyone on here might know what it is or what it was used for. Found amongst the stationary.

Thank you for your help!

UPDATE: Thank you to all who responded and helped solve this mystery. I've never come across a cord grommet like this, but now that I know what it is, I can put it to good use. ^^ so thank you!

[missjoolee]

1-102 is such a big rangeeeeee 🤔

I’ll take 17 plz ❤️

@thedeathdeelers​ wanted soft juke in bed scenes, and you chose 17. (this was influenced by your recent addition, and i peppered in some "u"s for you as well. to make it feel like home :P)

Pick a number between 1-102 (97, 45, 17, 13, 23, 82)

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She's finally asleep. Luke leans heavily against the headboard of their bed with a sigh. His eyes rove across Julie's face, peaceful now but with remaining dregs of discomfort after the last several hours, which is pale. The color only recently started to return to normal. A faint sheen of sweat is just barely visible in the low light of their room.

Reaching over, he gently brushes her hair back from her forehead, pausing when she shifts, hoping he hasn't woken her up. She settles down and he breathes a sigh of relief. Today had been rough. He feels pretty lied to by media and society. They all paint morning sickness as a one and done kinda thing and well.. a morning thing. Not whatever had happened today. Absentmindedly, his thumb begins to trace patterns across her shoulder and down her arm. He pretends it's to help soothe Julie in her sleep, but really the touch helps to ground him, remind him that she's right there and will be okay.

They'd been working in their music room that afternoon when he'd noticed her begin to regulate her breathing with slow exhales. Then the colour had drained from her face and she was making a mad dash to the bathroom. He'd ran after her but retching sounds were already bouncing off the walls out into the hallway before he'd made it to her.

Guilt settles in him as the memories of the afternoon assault him. It's his fault. Julie wouldn't be in pain right now if she hadn't been pregnant. If he'd known how to help her. All he'd managed to do successfully was keep her hair out of her way and given her a cool washcloth to place on the back of her neck as she leaned against the rim of the toilet. Julie had done a better job taking care of him when he'd gotten food poisoning. Everything else he'd tried had backfired, hard. He'd gotten her some water, but she couldn't keep it down. After hours of dry heaving and gagging, he thought it'd be important to get something in her system so he had left her to make some plain toast. The plate had barely made it into the same room as Julie before she was lunging for the toilet again, stomach spasming.

His eyes fall shut, recalling the feeling of inadequacy, trying to remember the breathing exercises he's helped Alex with a thousand times. Is this how it's going until she reaches the second trimester? That's over a month away! He hates this powerless feeling. A tear leaks out, making a slow trail down his face. Movement shifting on the bed causes him to open his eyes just in time to see Julie turning onto her side, snuggling her face into his hip. His hand moves to her back, idly playing with some of the loose locks of hair. She takes a deep breath, a content hum flavouring her exhale. That pulls a small smile onto his face despite everything that's been playing in his mind the last few minutes. How could he not? It's Julie, after all. His brightly burning star. His star that just mumbled something he didn't catch.

Quietly, he asks, "What was that, Jules?"

She repeats herself a little bit louder, eyes staying shut. "Thank you for taking care of me today."

"Of course! I'd do anything for you." The guilt resurges as he grasps for what he could have done better. "Wish I could have been more useful, though."

She shakes her head, nose brushing against him. "You did great. We will get the hang of things. You're going to be an amazing dad."

Love swells within him. She always knows what to say to pull him out of his head. And he can now recognize the fear that was fueling his frustrations. Her body may be doing all the work right now, but they are in this together. It's a fact that they make each other better at whatever they set their sights on. He tucks his legs under the blanket and slowly slides down to lay next to her. He pulls her against his side and presses a kiss to her temple.

"Yeah. We got this."

[webdiggerxxx]

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[kalewebkinz]

My Mystery Prize today! Pretty cool I think!

[inthevintagekitchen]

A Monumental Story of Real-Life Serendipity Told Over Many Parts: Chapter 4 - One Last Journey

The view from seat 21A {Spoiler Alert: This is a series of blog posts detailing the real-life story of a 100-year-old item that was lost over a decade ago and how it found its way home in 2024. Follow along from the beginning of this story at Chapter 1: It Arrives.} This part of the lost item story is about numbers. Not numbers relating to complex math or phones or registry digits, but numbers…

[randomitemdrop]

Item: unlabeled plastic jug of thick bright-green liquid sitting on the floor in an office where that seems out of place

[elden-ring-item-descriptions]

Prattling Pate "My Beloved"

Twisted clay sculpt in the shape of a human head. Emits a voice that says "My beloved."

A wistful fetish that imparts voices and words on an eternal journey.

Expressions of love are among the most fickle.

(Note: other than the Pate needed for Boc’s questline, this is the only one with additional flavour text. It’s found in Miquella’s Haligtree, so between this and the bewitching branch, I wonder if this is about him...?)

[the-mad-prince-of-denmark]

Can’t decide what’s funnier- Benoit Blanc meeting his husband during a high stakes murder mystery or Benoit Blanc meeting his husband at like, the grocery store

[rinksrats]

evgeni malkin paper doll w both tucked and untucked jerseys + spooky season costumes

[poirott]

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT 4x02 "Death in the Clouds"

"It is one of Dame Agatha's most intricate plots. I like working on the longer films like this one because it gives me an opportunity to develop the character, but even more than that, I thought it was wonderful that a series like ours was now capable of going to Paris, even if only for a few days. I kept pinching myself to make sure it was true." - David Suchet, Poirot and Me

[icewindandboringhorror]

I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol

[shiftythrifting]

Bizzare anime(?) Plastic half cylinder thing?? Does anyone know 1) what kind of item this is, 2) what series this could be from, and 3) Why

🤷

[strawglicks]

welcome to the Coal & Ice District!

[inthevintagekitchen]

A Monumental Story of Real-Life Serendipity Told Over Many Parts: Our 2021 Blog Series Is Finally Back with New Chapters

It’s been two years and five months since this story began unfolding on the blog. Back then, the blog series with the impossibly long title – A Monumental Story of Real-Life Serendipity Told Over Many Parts detailed, in installments, the story of a mysterious package that was sent by a random stranger to the Vintage Kitchen in the summer of 2021. Inside the package was a valuable 100-year-old…

[randomitemdrop]

I have half a slice of pineapple pizza, six seagulls and a handful of loose euros what can I get for that

Item: Electrified Paper and Obedient Ball (???)