Do you have a 'junk drawer'?

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If so what's in it?

We only have a junk 'bowl' at the moment but last night round at a mates house we spent a good few hours just exploring her junk drawer and finding all manner of 'toys' and hilarious old photos.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Haha I don't have any other kind. Mostly they're full of my career in photography.

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

and the obligatory cotton thread that has managed to wind itself onto everything.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I've got a big metal tin full of rubbish. Old photos, bus tickets, leaflets from tourist attractions (Flamingo Land when I was ten etc) my mums old tax discs(?) unused birthday cards which are handy and various roachable materials.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Several junk drawers, mostly full of stationery of some kind or other, pens and the like, plus the ill advised box of condoms I bought when I momentarily thought I'd have a sex life. Man, I can remember the days when I actually had a whole "bondage drawer".

Plus two boxes of junk. One for electronic junk, and one for paper-based junk - drawings and old magazine clippings and the like.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

I really do need to upgrade my bowl, it's currently overflowing with old plug-in air freshners

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

Your question disgusts me.

― Mort Greenspan, Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Do you have a smack drawer?

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

My whole house is a junk drawer.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Thursday, 10 March 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

I have a junk drawrer but every so often I have a mad fit of 'de-cluttering' and throw all the junk out, so there's never much interesting in it.

We have the 'drawer of shame' in our house Kate...

― smee (smee), Thursday, 10 March 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

But... but... it's not a Drawer Of Shame, it's a DRAW OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS!!!

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

in my old parents house we had a faulty junk drawer that you couldn't pull all the way out. There were hundreds of heavenly junk delights that were never seen again at the back of that drawer.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 10 March 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Kate I am inspired - I shall rename it appropriately forthwith!

― smee (smee), Thursday, 10 March 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I have junk crates for easy transportability of crap I'm never going to use ever again without having to look through it all when moving. Storage solutions, baby.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 March 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

I acccepted my need for keeping junk the day that I exchanged my temporary, cardboard moving junk boxes for sturdy, plastic storing junk boxes. Hurrah for junk!

Every time I move in, I go through them. It's like this welcoming ritual where I rediscover lost treasures. Powerpuff Girls valentines from 2001. Backstage passes from 1998.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

We have 'The Pile' in our house. Although recently we moved it to a box so it's now 'The Box'. During particularly chaotic months The Box breeds and 'The Carrier Bags' appear in the surrounding area...

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

I have many junk drawers and junk boxes... A bunch of shit I don't want and wouldn't care if it disappeared .. but I hate to thow things in the trash, an no one else would want this crap .. but someone might, see.. Maybe I should have an Adopt-my-junk party. Oh, must think of a better name than that, though.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

I have a junk ROOM.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

There's no need to boast.

― alix (alix), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

I have categorized plastic junk boxes - organized junk is the new denial! It's po-mo feng shui, the office-supply-store solution to all your problems, etc, etc.

During Christmas holidays I stayed at my brother's house for a few days and discovered that he had *four* junk drawers, each holding about 500 pennies and a thousand kinds of junk. I categorized it. Some of it even went into giant ziploc bags (e.g., first aid, xacto knives (seriously), thread/string, etc). Later I feared low-grade autism. But no, it was kind of, er, satisfying, let's be honest. My desire to organize (no, not tidy, organize) is a Force!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

Adopt-my-junk party = Car Boot Sale - no?

― smee (smee), Thursday, 10 March 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Adopt-my-junk party = Pity me sex party.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

My whole house feels like a junk drawer right now. There's a lot of stuff I should probably take over to the salvation army, but I've been too busy and/or lazy to do so.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Old business cards
Firewire cable
Opened package of Bic pens
AC Adapter
Receipts
Invitations

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh god, adaptors, they hide and they BREEEEED and none of them ever fit any kind of working appliance that you've had in about five years, and half of them are the wrong voltage. I should have a cull of adaptors and patch cords, but that would be too much work.

I haven't even mentioned the GUITAR JUNK BAG and the GUITAR JUNK BOX.

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

I wish I had a drawer of earthly delights. I don't think half a dozen p0rn DVDs count.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

curtain rings
candles
playing cards
lip balm

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

I have several. One is of the "paper clipping/photograph" variety anther is for electronic junk another is magazines and another is junk junk. I will try to list the contents of the last one when I get home.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

Mcdonalds BBQ sauce saches
shoe laces
stones
home made jewellery

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Another one:

Flask
Thumbtacks
Old keys
ashtray
Ring
AC Adapter
Playing Cards
Shoelaces
Sewing kit
Library card
Cigar tool
Keychains
Fake tattoos

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

I've always called this the "everything drawer" and the ALWAYS include x-acto knives, rrrobyn, I think that's one of the rules of the universe.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

The junk drawer from when I was 10 has Xacto knives

― green uno skip card (ex machina), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

I've got a couple of them in my desk, they hold a variety of things from my little used checkbook (paying on the Internet = a treat) to old show tickets. Mostly it's old letters from my pre-net days mouldering.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

As a child, I remember our junk drawer being dominated by chinese hot mustard packets and these scary 1970s colors rubber disks "used to open stubborn jars," or so they said.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you've had rrrobyn's all along, jon! maybe junk drawers share junk w/one another through a clandestine network of freak junk wormholes located just in the back of each drwaer where you can't quite see.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

In one junk drawer:

Worn out batteries
Post cards
Used post-it notes
Ride "Leave them all behind" cassingle
Old school reports
Loads of keyrings
Old X-mas and birthday cards
Some lego
Screwdrivers
A weird light up bouncing ball
Beach Boys CD from the Sunday Mail

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Junk/everything drawers are total wormholes of convergence! I think I have a few people's fold-up scissors - where did they come from? And why/how 50,000 pencils of all sizes? And keyrings, keyrings, keyrings! = giving me a key-deficiency complex.

(the craziest thing about x-actos in junk drawers is that *they are sharp* - my brother once cut his finger horribly on one when blindly reaching into a junk drawer. The only lesson learned there was to close all x-actos before flinging into drawer, so that they may attract others and copulate and spawn.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Do I really get to be the one to say that, yes I have junk drawers, and I keep my ass in them?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

My junk drawer is my bedroom. There are plans to move all the junk into the spare bedroom (and turn it into an "office") so I can had a nice, attractive bedroom; but I don't think they're getting very far.

I have a couple of filing boxes for magazine clippings, old gig tickets, postcards from friends and so on.

Oh god, adaptors, they hide and they BREEEEED and none of them ever fit any kind of working appliance that you've had in about five years, and half of them are the wrong voltage.

I had this conversation with someone at work today - how come we have a big pile of spare powerbricks which are the wrong voltage for anything, and a big pile of spare network hubs with no bricks?

Man, I can remember the days when I actually had a whole "bondage drawer".

I did have one of these too. Since the last house move I haven't had a proper chest of drawers, so now it's a bunch of carrier bags under the bed.

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 10 March 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

my desk drawer has pretty much turned into a contraband drawer. a few assorted bits of marijuana and marijuana paraphenalia, most of it not even mine. somehow i thought "pipe-sitting" for my friends while they were in israel and london respectively would be a good idea, but it just makes me feel like more of a stoner than i am. plus whenever i go to get a pen out of my drawer the whole room stinks up to holy hell

― mat, Thursday, 10 March 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

i have a junk house. no, i don't. i'm just rrrrrreally anal and i can't stand clutter. but lately i've been too lazy to put things in order.

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Thursday, 10 March 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

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