My object(s) is those tiny "To:/From:" stickers that go on Xmas gifts usually next to a ribbon or bow, so you know who the gifts under the tree go to and who they are from. The details aren't very exciting, sadly: they're usually about the size of 3-4 stamps, with some tiny decal or drawing like a smiling snow man or a snowflake or a santa head or a xmas tree or maybe even a gift (which is kinda "meta," no?). The fancier ones are not stickers but tags and have glitter (glitter = fancy? ha! yes, that's how I think of it) and maybe a hole punched in them so they can be tied to the Xmas gift. But those aren't the ones I'm thinking of. I'm thinking of tiny, plain ol' santa-head-having stickers that leave hardly enough space to spell a name after "To:" which is always bothersome. These are ordinary to people because they are cheap, not handmade and are simply a messenger of sorts for the gift to which they are attached (which is what is supposed to be extraordinary).
The extraordinariness of these xmas gift stickers lies in the fact that my dad finds them to be keepsake-worthy, which I find to be utterly hilarious but touching. While I toss them in the trash like everyone else in my family, my dad carefully preserves the tags off each gift he received as a way to, as he once put it, "help me remember who cared enough to give me a gift." It doesn't matter that the sticker gives no indication of what the gift actually was. He simply likes that it invokes the memory of a person he cared for and who cares for him. Anyway, so in my dad's bedroom dresser, he has stacks upon stacks of these useless, ratty xmas stickers. Perhaps this seems like an object that is extraordinary to my dad (which it is) but it is also extraordinary for me because of my dad. I could chalk this up to his packrattiness, but I love how he has this weird little system that helps him keep memories alive. And so to me these xmas stickers have the potential for extraordinariness for some people even when they're pretty forgettable.