Everyone has one, no one talks about them; however, they are necessary—a junk drawer. Ours is in the kitchen.
ONE junk drawer? We have two, and I'm contemplating adding a third. All the stuff you need is in the junk drawer, you just have to dig to find it. Your junk drawer, like everything you touch, looks pretty organized to me, Sjoerd!
JANE--Thank you. thank you, thank you....The Bride raised her voice to say--" Put up a picture, put up a picture...I wanna see a picture Jane".
Yours is pretty neat. mine is a bigger collection of "junk" than that. with 5 adults living here... no, most of it is probably me. To be fair... you just moved. I have been here 27 years. you purge lots of stuff when you move and when you stay in one place you tend to keep the " what if I need it" stuff to actually never really need much of it at all, I think. and I have too much stuff. I am trying to purge though. but the sling shot marbles are absolutely necessary in my junk drawer along with the 30 or so pens and lighters for the grill and oh my. labels for the labeler and tape and...
I have two junk drawers.... 1 junk closet....a junk room, a junk shed and at least one junk space in the back yard. What am I supposed to do...get rid of my junk???? Oh, heck now, that is not gonna happen.
I can think of at least 4 junk drawers in my house, not including what's in the kids rooms. In my defense, it's not actually 'junk'... it's all stuff I use eventually
Snikker---Are you guys too embarrassed to show your drawers? Show me your drawers!!! CAROLYN--I know what you mean with --the longer you live in a place, the more stuff you accumulate. You were right that we had just moved, but that was in the meantime, three years ago. Time flies, doesn't it. Yeah, it's all junk that is in the drawers, but unmissable junk. TONI-- We've got stuff in the shed below, but that is a different type of "junk"...that is "junque". The things in the drawer is in a class all its own. NETTY---Oh dear me, I almost fell out of my chair when I read your last line. My eyes are still moist.
When you go on as many junquing weekends as hubby and I do you find that junque accumulates very quickly. The closet, room and space in the backyard are where my junque is, the rest of the places are junk that could go away but then if it did the next day I would be mentally kicking myself for not keeping it. And I am not even bringing up the junque hubby has. One day our daughters will get to go through our junque, shake their heads in disbelief and probably have one really good yard sale!
Yeah Carolyn...it really was. I am sometimes amazed when I have to think of something like this. I just forget, and before you know it--another year has gone by. It boggles the mind.
My mind is easily boggled! But remember, time flies when you're having fun, and we have fun here on the Stew (but I'm still not showing you my drawers, Sjoerd!).
I have one bona fide junk drawer that can have absolutely anything in it at any time. I have another junk drawer that has more odds 'n ends of kitchen type junk i.e. jar ring bands, plastic lids, spare nut crakcers, lobster picks, rubber bands, string to tie up poultry with before cooking - stuff like that.
I got you fam....but its more of a junk bench. And it does get cleaned off from time to time. Its just so darn easy to set stuff on it though. The finds can be epic too.. like this drill I though I lost. This one is a better angle.
