This chase will apply more to women than men, but men will find it most interesting too. The pocket chase is a chase you will want to do now that the days are sunny and warm. For example, you might have noticed that your stack of handkerchiefs has suddenly disappeared from your dresser drawer. Now, how could I have lost all those handkerchiefs, you ask yourself. Our pocket chase will begin in all our closets where we hang our coats and jackets and continue to all the pegs where menfolk, and sometimes women, like to hang their work jackets.

     Let’s begin in the closet with our good winter coats. Wow, the first thing our hand hits is a handkerchief (dirty, of course), then there are three mints. If they are left until next winter we will find them, of course, and they will all be run together and forever embedded in the fabric of the coat pocket. Great, there is money. Anything from pennies, dimes, nickels to what! A twenty dollar bill? How did that escape my spending hands? I’ll never know. Then there are the receipts from many, many places you have been during the cold months. There are fingernail clippers, files, Kleenex enough to start a bon fire, cough drops, the keys you lost and absolutely could not find. There will be chewing gum, of course, and it will not be chewable. There will be the phone number a dear friend gave you so you could call her. Now you feel like a complete heel because you not only forgot seeing her, you forgot that you were gonna call her. There will be the note, the very important note of the very important business you had to take care of when you went to town. That was January and now it is June. How will I ever pull this one out of the hat? Thank God there are not pockets in hats.

     My advice to you after all coats and jackets have had the pocket chase is to send the ones you wore often to the cleaners. Moths avoid clean garments. Washable jackets should be washed. Give away those that no longer fit and the next time you lose something important, try the pocket chase.
 

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