  One man's trash... is another man's treasure, so they say (whoever "they" are). I had a threesome of this yesterday, so I figured it earned a place in blog history.
First, I had a client call to ask about a local magazine that we recieve here at the hotel regularly for our guests. It has Pamela Anderson on the cover of its 10th Anniversary Issue (January 03), and he knows someone in Kid Rock's band who can get Pamela to autograph it for him. It was such a big deal for him that I promised to do my best and get my hands on two of them as he asked.
Turns out, all I had to do was walk down to our Housekeeping department and ASK. We have tons of them. So, off they went to my guest up north, and he's so very grateful and what can he do to repay me? Well, he's a jewelry broker, so I'm sure we'll think of something. *sparkle-sparkle* Then, there was the request at daycare posted to the door upon entering. Please bring in three empty film canisters and an empty tissue box. Trash, that I would keep lying around just for such instances. Actually, I just threw a tissue box away last Friday, and I left 3 film canisters at my mother-in-law's house over the weekend to get the film inside developed.
The children are making instruments - except for mine of course, because I threw all of that stuff away! And then there was the binder I found tucked away on a shelf yesterday. I use lots of binders at work -- lots of 'em. I need a new 2 inch binder to replace an old 2 inch binder that has busted out of its 2 inches. So, I went to remove one from a shelf that's been sitting there unnoticed for who know's how long.
I check with my office mates to make sure it's OK I take this particularly lovely 2 inch binder for my own. All of a sudden, one of my colleagues decides that the information inside could be valuable to him, and please don't use THAT binder. And as it turned out, he started using the info in that binder today and it has been very useful indeed. Go figure. Diva out. 
