I have recently become addicted to a show called Pawn Stars. It is about a huge pawn shop that deal with anything from huge boats like you used to see on Miami Vice to two thousand year old Roman coins. It is always entertaining to see what people pull out of the storage boxes they have laying around, and bring in to sell.

My grandmother passed down her fudge recipe to the women in our family, and it literally has no equal. Around the first of November relatives start hounding me for the first batch. We make ten pounds at a time and it takes three people to take turns at stirring. I have to schedule help for this, sometimes bribery is a must. By Christmas time, it is not unusual for my family to have made fifty pounds of fudge to give away. Another challenge is to find attractive, food friendly storage boxes to keep it all in.