An unopened riveting kit, a Knott's Berry Farm jelly jar filled with buttons and blue rubber bands are specific items Erin Looney found in a tin in a thrift store in Spokane on Wednesday, making her 99 percent certain that this cookie-tin-turned-sewing-kit belonged to her mom, who died of cancer in 1998. The sewing kit disappeared when her belongings were sold with a storage unit about 20 years ago. (Courtesy photo)

January 5, 2018