Return To Lender

What: Mismatched Knitting Needles.
Origin: Mom.
How Long Kept: Possibly since the 80s.
Why Kept: Out of sight out of mind. Aaaaaargh.
Destination: Back to Mom.

Sorry, Mom, if any of your unfinished projects might be finished just for the want of these missing needles.

"M" says... this might be an infraction of the rules!!! It's going back to Mom's. hmmm We will have to have a meeting on this.

"A" points out:   Hmmm.  I think not, in this case.   There's a "founder's intention" argument here:  Mom arguably has two sets of useless knitting needles that can be made whole.   If the point of that rule is that we'll get it all back someday, would you rather get back putatively useful knitting needles?   (Someone Might Need Them, after all.)