SUBJECT: New Year, January 1, resolutions

CHARACTERS: Wife, husband 

PROPS: A box of odds and ends, including some tapes, an

iron, a picture album, a magazine or brochure, and a Thighmaster 

SETTING: Not particular 

Wife: "Are you ready?" 

Husband: "Am I ever?  Bring it on anyway." 

Wife: "Okay, these are all the boxes I dragged up

from the basement.  Let''s get to it." 

Husband: "I can''t believe it took just one year to

collect all this stuff." 

Wife: "Yeah, and some of it''s just junk!  When we

bought some of this stuff, we thought it was necessary or valuable, but now I

can see that some of it is just garbage."  

Husband: "Old letters, this iron I picked up at a

garage sale, the stamp collection album I swore I was going to start." 

Wife: (in fun, sarcastic tone) "Ah, …