Junk drawer. Drawer, drawer. Not draw, damnit!

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Everyone I know has a 'junk draw' or cupboard. As a child I remember in my parents kitchen there was one that had mobile phones from the 80s, a dog chain, selotape, spare change, medicine, superglue and many other random items. I would route through it at least once every few days looking for toys, money or anything i've not used / see for years

I have a love hate relationship with junk draws. Can either never find what you want or you magically find an item you lost years go :D

Anyone, lets see what random junk you have. Here's ours - light bulbs, tape, a hammer, medicine/pills, superglue, alcohol, tea, nail polish remover, pens, batteries, old bills, decking stain, covid mask, sandpaper, tape measure. A colander also gets stored in the top as there's a gap for the handle

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We have a doozy. Full of old Xmas cracker "gifts" and all manner of old rubbish that never gets sorted. Finding a wine bottle stopper can be quite annoying at times.
 
About 12 allen keys of the same type in mine.

My late father's man draw lives on to this day, 11 years on. In fact when I re-activated his SIM about 9~10 years ago, I was told it still had £7 of his original £10 top-up on it. They used that £7 towards my Pay Monthly bill. Thanks, Dad!
 
I just remembered, a few years ago at uni we had a small junk draw. We found 18 lighters in it when we moved out. Me and my two housemates don't even smoke!
House parties, post nights / early morning out must have caused a build up
 
I don't draw junk. I don't keep it in a drawer either. It outgrew that years ago. I have a junk room now.

I have no idea why I am keeping 3.5" floppy drives, a VHS player/recorder, lots of parallel ATA ribbon cables, etc, etc. I do know why I'm keeping a ~30 year old TV - it's less bother to leave it in my junk room than it is to dispose of it properly.
 
It’s not a junk drawer unless it contains the following:

- A used spark plug which doesn’t fit any engine that you own
- Coins and bank notes for at least two foreign currencies that no longer exist
- Keys to houses that you haven’t lived in for several decades
 
Terminal_Boy said:
- Keys to houses that you haven’t lived in for several decades
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I think I can top that, key to a shed that used to belong to my aunt 15ish years ago (pretty sure it was the only key as well)

And a key that I found on a night out 10 years ago that I thought might be a mates (it wasn't)

Thankfully I moved recently so the junk got cut down. Some junk just got shifted to the new place 'just in case'. Similar to the drawer, I'm fully expecting some of the boxes in the loft to be there untouched when we next move...
 
Terminal_Boy said:
t’s not a junk drawer unless it contains the following:

- A used spark plug which doesn’t fit any engine that you own
- Coins and bank notes for at least two foreign currencies that no longer exist
- Keys to houses that you haven’t lived in for several decades
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- Some O rings in a small resealable plastic bag that you kept but have no idea what they might fit.

- A large collection of 3 and 5 amp fuses. Why?
 
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