Alabama restaurant’s trinket box brings joy to visitors: ‘It just feels good’

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Kayleigh Wyatt and Nealy Wyatt react to a find at the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)Rachael Joyce looks through items in the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)Rachael Joyce takes a photo of the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)Ember List grabs a plush figure left in the box shortly before she arrived at the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)Megan McCormick, creator of the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box, holds up one of the original pieces she left in the box in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)Small toys and trinkets are packed in the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)Megan McCormick, creator of the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box stands for a portrait in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)A visitor looks through items at the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)A visitor looks through items at the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)Small toys and trinkets are packed in the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)Megan McCormick, creator of the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box stands for a portrait in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)Ember List watches as her mother Taryn Pomerantz looks through the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)Small toys and trinkets are packed in the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)Ella Wiley and her mother Jessica look through items at the Birmingham Trinket Trade Box in Birmingham, Ala., Thursday, April 23, 2026. (Will McLelland | AL.com)

On the side of The Electric restaurant in the Avondale neighborhood of Birmingham, there’s a small teal and green box full of small toys and goodies. Wind-up animals, action figures, stickers, bracelets -- all for the taking. At any given time, the inside of the box will look completely different.

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