My writing group's prompt jar went from boring to bonkers in a month

We used to get stuff like 'write about a rainy day' or 'describe a sunset', which was fine but kind of dull. Then someone brought in a bag of random thrift store items and said we had to use one as a prompt. The first week, I got a single, mismatched oven mitt with a cat's face on it. Last week, my prompt was a receipt for 12 pounds of gummy bears from a gas station in Tempe, dated 1998. The jar is now full of weird physical objects and found paper, and the stories are way more fun and unexpected. Has anyone else tried using totally random physical stuff instead of written prompts?

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nora_barnes11h ago

That Tempe receipt is a whole story by itself.

the_wendy9h ago

My friend's Tempe receipt had a phone number and "call me" written on the back...