Do you have a junk drawer?

Kitchen; “junk drawer from hell” there are things in there from 40 years ago.

I rent. I only have 2 drawers in my kitchen, but I have a lot of cabinets. I have a junk tub in a cabinet. It’s fun to pull it out and search for things.

I would but I have no drawers.

Of all my drawers, the truly randomest one is a small one in the kitchen. What’s likeliest to land there is something similar or analogous to something already in there, such as a pill counter and a kitchen timer.

But there are numerous drawers in some loose classification (kitchen implements, desk stuff) that are simply a subcategory of the ultimate truly miscellaneous junk drawer that exists only in the Platonic realm.

I call it my “house”.

I have at least 8 of them.

My junk drawer has a junk drawer. It is on an island in the kitchen. Both homes have one and they are both in the kitchen.

Yes, several. My husband would fill the entire house if I didnt grump.
Three kitchen drawers have either menu’s, tools or garden seeds, sometimes all three. Then the bathroom junk drawer has old glasses, old pill bottles, and random items.

Pretty much 4 drawers in my office desk.

I have several and then a big goddamn shed full of it.

In the house I have two. In my tool box I have one GREAT BIG one!

Everyone has a or a couple of junk drawers. Don’t they?

One in my living room for newspaper articles, magazines, and other reading materials.

Another in my home office desk. Maybe it’s not exactly a junk drawer, but it’s a very messy drawer overfilled with post it notes, rubber bands, rulers, anything desk oriented that needs to be shoved somewhere.

Edit: the top of my desk and a spot on my kitchen counter also are landing spots for all sorts of unrelated papers that need to be sorted through and they usually sit there in a pile way too long. Plus, things like a credit card I used and didn’t put away, or anything else in my hand that I’m not putting in it’s place or doesn’t have a place. Those locations would be junk counter spots I guess.

Yes. At least 3. The lists below are in no way complete. There’s just too much to list.
One in the kitchen for pens, pencils, markers, wire ties, any small screws and bits that are obviously from something in the house.
One in the office desk for stamp pads, tapes, sticky notes, flash cards, rubber bands.
One in the basement for odd screws, nuts and bolts, nails, electrical components, small lengths of wire.

If you ask me if I have something the answer is always “Yes” and often it is in a junk drawer.

I have two in the kitchen. They’re in a hard to reach spot where there’s a wooden kitchen cart in front of them, so they are rarely opened. They have phone cords in them and random stuff like screws.

I really should go through them and clean them out but it’s ok that they’re there. It seems a lot of time would be taken cleaning them out and it’s easier to just leave them for now.

I have a “Fibber McGee” drawer in the kitchen. It has the odd battery, some small tools like random allen wrenches, leftover birthday candles, matches, odd keys, pencils, and scotch tape.

My mother always called it the Fibber McGee drawer after the radio show.

I have a junk box. It’s a plastic bin in the closet of the 2nd bedroom. Oh yea, there’s 3 of these plastic boxes full of stuff….

I want to somehow work my father’s dating advice:
Keep your junk in your drawers.

I have five drawers full of assorted junk, three at my computer desk one in my bedside cabinet and one in the kitchen. My computer desk drawers contain stationery, pens, Sellotape, a calculator, screen wipes, flash drives, string, scissors, a stapler and some blank greetings cards. My bedside cabinet has a cheque book, spare batteries, a torch, various keys, a pair of tweezers and some paper hankies. The kitchen drawer is overflowing with packets, jars, bottles and spices.

I do. It’s the very bottom drawer in my kitchen. it has spare small electronics and tools, and odds and ends. I cleaned it out after Christmas. I only kept 25% of the ‘junk’

Yeah,one in the Kitchen ,and one in the laundry room, full of all sorts of stuff from tools to flash lights, black tape,spare batteries, matches and the list goes on.

Check out today’s, May 5, 2022, “The Family Circus” comic by Bil and Jeff Keane.
Does this look like your drawer? The Family Circus

^^^^ yep!

^^Spot on!

My drawer doesn’t have an Ace of Heart’s like theirs.