It Came From the Basement: My Favorite Stuffy?

This is the latest in a new series with which I'm trying to reinvigorate the DaveTronik 2000 blog. In these posts, I will write about an item or items currently stored in the unfinished side of my basement. Many of them have been stashed in boxes for decades, waiting for this moment.

Four posts into this new series, I feel the need to talk etymology. When I was a kid, my family used the word "cellar" to refer to the lowest level of our house -- where we stored toys, sports equipment, tools, old...