This is a relatively new collection for me and it started when I began picking up dryers to salvage the white enameled metal sides to make furniture with. To remove the panels I basically had to dismantle the entire dryer, and I first noticed the abundant variation of fins. To get to the fins, I had to pull the drum out and remove the screws from the backside of the drum. All of this work for a banal little plastic part. It doesn't really seem like work though, because I love taking things apart, especially when I don't have to put them back together. After the initial interest had settled in and I
wanted to actively pursue these things I went on a search for discarded dryers. They’re quite plentiful in the run-down neighborhoods I like to frequent. When I started tearing it apart, I could hear loose change rattling around inside. I bounced it around a few times and the money started dropping out. Some of the change was stuck way back in the bowels of the machine, so I ended up totally dismantling it with parts strewn out all over the yard. When I was done, I counted up exactly 11 dollars and 11 cents, so of course, I took that as a sign from God. This collection will be blessed. I have to admit, the interest in fins sort of diminished a bit, and the more promising collection would be "money found inside broken dryers". The next couple of dryers only yielded a few pennies and nickels, so that really disappointed me. As I removed the fins on a few select models, I noticed another divine gift. Inside the fins there were perfectly formed spheres of dryer lint. I rushed back to the previous fins I had saved, to see if I had overlooked this unsullied boon, but to no avail. Only a specific type of fin produced this scientific anomaly. Then the collection got interesting. I started rejecting dryers because I either already had that type of fin, the fin probably didn’t contain the lint spheres, or there wasn’t any loose change rattling about inside. The next dryer I found that fit the new regulations yielded even more puzzling urban artifacts. Inside the
desired fin of this one I found a few beautifully formed lint spheres, yes! A couple of pennies and quarters, yes! Some bubble gum wads with colored paper bits stuck to them, eeh? And would you believe it, a goll-derned dime bag of marijuana. HELLO! I utter this story solely to illustrate what may be the most curious collection I have ever attempted, hereby christened "dime bags of marijuana found inside translucent dryer fins inside Kenmore Ultra Care dryers manufactured between 1976 and 1984"
