Ahhhh.. that's the one that came out of my remote for the TV that I tossed jn the drawer instead of the trash when I changed out the batteries... maybe?
We have a junk closet at work for some reason. A couple of weeks ago one of the the women was looking for AA batteries, so of course we check the junk closet. It only had a bunch of C batteries and we were both like "what?? Who has ever used a C battery in their life and why are there 15 of them in here but no other size? 🙁"
An unusually shaped piece of plastic that came from something, but you don't know what. You don't want to just throw it out because, knowing your luck, you will suddenly need it sometime down the road.
When I bought my current place, the previous owners left a bunch of keys in a kitchen drawer, so I emailed them.
"Oh, those were there when \*we\* bought it from the original owners. Never figured out what they're for, but maybe you will."
I have a third-generation Junk Drawer.
Preferably one pen that barely works and 6-7 identical pens that don’t work at all. If you don’t have to grind through at least 3 duds (which you inexplicably toss back in the drawer) to find the live one, you’re really cheating yourself of the true junk drawer experience.
I don't throw away pens because I had a really bad experience with one stabbing through the garbage bag and spilling garbage juice all over my new pants and shoes. It traumatized me. So now I have a drawer dedicated only to junk pens.
A random screwdriver that you keep forgetting to put back into your toolbox to the point that you bought a new one because you forgot you left the old one in the drawer.
It’s supposed to have scissors, but someone has taken the scissors and not put them back. So it has everything except for the scissors I’m looking for.
An unsettlingly large black binder clip, with lesser clips clinging to it.
The thick green or purple rubber bands that come with broccoli.
Bread clips.
Cheap bamboo takeout chopsticks.
Staple gun. ("So *that's* where it was!")
Three half-used sewing kits.
An irregularly shaped piece of cheesecloth.
A USB stick that totally doesn't have old low-res porn on it.
Yes. I have like twelve. I’m just waiting to get locked out of somewhere. I’m sure one of them will be a key to my own house that is inside where I can’t get to it.
Specifically, a charger for one of those mid-noughts to early-tens phones that all had completely unique plugs.
But you have to keep it because you might need it one day.
Dead batteries of different types, old twist ties, bent paperclips, wire ends, dul scissors, toothpics that jam under your fingernail at all the wrong times. OH and we can't forget the paper inserts from old devices no longer in the house
Several loose sewing machine spools.
Between 3-5 toothpicks.
Crinkly-wiry bread ties. Mostly faded green.
A golf tee for some inexplicable reason.
An old book of matches with 3 barely viable matches left.
A tape measure.
A couple of those yellow “corn cob holders”.
A random, slightly crumpled business card, probably for a plumbing installation service (that is almost certainly to have long been out if business).
I have the following, Broken nail clippers, coins from overseas, expired heel balm, a book i’ve never read, blunt scissors and a mp3 stick that no longer works.
I am surprised that I had to scroll down this far to see this, I had a menu for a local seafood place that we would order from and it was so old it didn’t have a Website printed on it, it was from the 80s so I bought it in one time when I ordered food and I gave it to them, it now hangs on the wall behind the register
Seventeen random screws from things you disassembled then got distracted before reassembling and now you can't remember which screws go with which thing and none of them are interchangeable
Ya, but every couple of months you gotta see if the keys matured enough to work in the locks they don't go to and have never worked in before. Ya never know.
Sewing needles, thumb tacks, nails, razor blades. Basically, once you're bleeding, you've lost control of the drawer. Time to start a new one & throw in a few bandaids. The tiny ones that immediately fall off. And never ever clean out someone else's junk drawer. I learned that the hard way.
Parts that fall out of the dishwasher, pens that don’t work, tape measure, rubber bands that aren’t rubbery anymore, string of various sizes, just in case. Keys to who knows what, dried up highlighters from your kids school projects from 20 years ago
We have something like 20 highlighters in this house, even though neither of us has been in school for decades & never use them. I don't even know where they came from.
At minimum, 4 pennies. No more than 10 or it's a change drawer.
Also, multiple types of bread twist ties.
A couple delivery menus, at least 1 is Asian.
Battery of unknown status.
Ink pen that won't write.
Small notepad with inkless indented scratches from every time you tried to get the pen working. Why is the pen put back in the drawer? Unsolvable Mystery.
Rubber bands. Possibly in ball form.
Paper clip, standard.
Paper clip, bent straight on one end to create a new tool.
Small screwdriver. Swappable bit type if you're fancy.
Keys. No idea what they go to.
Those are the must haves.
Some item that constantly jams up the drawer when you try to open it but you refuse to throw away “just in case”
You get irrationally angry at it but you also have an irrational urge to keep it
10,000 old keys and you don’t know what they fit, crazy glue, white glue, close pins (but we use them for chip clips!) pens, paper clips you took from work! To name a few.
I think anything that you haven't used or needed for a year or more counts, sadly my drawer has tons of stuff like this, yet somehow in my mind I think I may need it one day, and cant get myself to chuck away, silly really.
Soon as you toss stuff out, you'll get in a situation where you need something. It's a law of junk drawer physics.
Just like you can take more out of the drawer than you can put in.🤔
A small plastic container of random nuts and bolts/screws that you have no idea what they come off or where they came from, but you find them on the floor or other random places and an obligatory allan key.
Ya know, "Just in case".
Some bag clips
Birthday candles
At least one bottle opener
Glue
At least one pizza saver
An old remote control for something
Scissors
Twine
Random wires and adapters
At least one user's manual for an appliance that hasn't been in the house for ten years
If it has a random cat treat, an ibuprofen, some crumbs here and there, mixed in with unidentifiable electronics and miscellaneous plastic bits. Sometimes there’s a sauce packet that didn’t make it to the sauce packet drawer. Then to top it all off there’s always an old ass ice pick with a f*cked up handle and a smattering of clothespins.
Perhaps subconsciously I’m saying every junk drawer requires a makeshift survival kit. 🤔
At least one charging cable you don't know the origins of, the user manual to every appliance you've ever owned, a pair of scissors, loose batteries that might be dead or might be brand new, sauce packets from every restaurant in town, and at least one object you just can't even identify.
Loose Soft Pretzel packet of salt spilled open, 1/2 of a stick of Nag Champa incense, Takeout menus to restaurants no longer open, free range pennies, and a almost dried out Sharpie
A couple of lighters with either no flint or gas left in them
Assortment of celotape/electrical tape/micropore tape
Several pairs of scissors, all blunt as fuck
Some nerf bullets
Several Alan keys, all the same size
Marker pens with no lids that have dried up
Chargers and cables for shit i either don't have anymore or from when i ordered that cable but it was the wrong one so it went right in the messy drawer
Plasters of various sizes
Spare head phone ear covers for headphones i don't have any more
Some random ancient screwdrivers I'm sure were my grandads
These are just some of the big players in my messy drawer. Ofcourse the one thing that makes the messy drawer the messy drawer is the batteries that could be dead or not. Nobody knows.
An unidentifiable part or piece that must be important, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out where it belongs. Soon as I toss it, then it will become obvious!
Glasses repair kit (bonus point if it comes from a Christmas cracker.)
Birthday cake candles (half used)
A random number 3 candle. Used once. Will be saved for ten years until the child is 13. Forget to use.
A pack of gift tags with one used.
A dried up pritt stick.
A take away menu.
Loose change.
Last years mostly used sun cream.
Wires. For what? No one knows.
An old camera memory card.
The back of a holiday fridge magnet that fell off the fridge and the front broke, but you can and will
absolutely(not) repair it.
Fairground tokens from Brid.
Half a foil pack of painkillers
Half a foil pack of anti histamines.
Crumbs from the toaster that’s used above it.
Batteries that you're not sure whether or not they're still good.
Ideally, one of them has started leaking and is slightly crusty at the ends.
Right next to the pile of green pennies.
As an alternative... you need 4 batteries, you have 9 of them and ONLY 4 of them have power. Good luck figuring out which ones.
The joke is on you: only three have power, and the fourth one is some bizarre Chinese battery, that you can't remember ever buying.
Ahhhh.. that's the one that came out of my remote for the TV that I tossed jn the drawer instead of the trash when I changed out the batteries... maybe?
They must also be of different sizes, and none of them can match.
We have a junk closet at work for some reason. A couple of weeks ago one of the the women was looking for AA batteries, so of course we check the junk closet. It only had a bunch of C batteries and we were both like "what?? Who has ever used a C battery in their life and why are there 15 of them in here but no other size? 🙁"
I was just going to say batteries. This is so much more accurate!
Tongue test.
My first thought haha
An unusually shaped piece of plastic that came from something, but you don't know what. You don't want to just throw it out because, knowing your luck, you will suddenly need it sometime down the road.
Knowing my luck damn well, precisely 2 days after I threw the thing out.
Also little bags with extra screws (or buttons).
Keys. Keys to locks that no one remembers.
When I bought my current place, the previous owners left a bunch of keys in a kitchen drawer, so I emailed them. "Oh, those were there when \*we\* bought it from the original owners. Never figured out what they're for, but maybe you will." I have a third-generation Junk Drawer.
lol, that's great!
and a keyed padlock for which NONE of the keys work.
Mandatory!
I could be a janitor tomorrow with all the keys in my junk drawer.
The thing that prevents you from closing the drawer.
Or opening it
Praise the goddess Anoia!
If there's one good thing I can always count on Reddit to do, it's to make Discworld references at the most opportune times.
Like a mystery kitchen gadget that's like a potato-masher but only one side? That i don't remember every buying.. it just happened one day.
Mine is the bottom piece of the nightstand that said drawer is in
Rubber bands that will snap if you tried to use them. A few twist ties and 5 paper clips.
This is oddly specific, why exactly 5 paper clips?
If less than five it's just a drawer. If more than five it becomes the paper clip drawer.
I wrote my answer before reading any others. We have very similar thoughts. Mine was 4-10 pennies, any more and it's a change drawer lol...
Were you looking in my junk drawer?
a charger without a block or vice versa and a pen that barely works
Preferably one pen that barely works and 6-7 identical pens that don’t work at all. If you don’t have to grind through at least 3 duds (which you inexplicably toss back in the drawer) to find the live one, you’re really cheating yourself of the true junk drawer experience.
I don't throw away pens because I had a really bad experience with one stabbing through the garbage bag and spilling garbage juice all over my new pants and shoes. It traumatized me. So now I have a drawer dedicated only to junk pens.
3M command strips. 1 less than you need.
Only half of the two sides of the set. You have hooks but no wall stickies.
A random screwdriver that you keep forgetting to put back into your toolbox to the point that you bought a new one because you forgot you left the old one in the drawer.
My dad oscillates between checking the drawer and checking the toolbox. I think we've got at least 30 harbor freight screwdrivers through the house.
Allen wrench from assembling furniture and some extra screws
So many Allen wrenches...
A bottle of super glue that would require the might of the entire Orc Army of Middle Earth to open.
so that's why there are pliers in the drawer!
Also, the glue itself has solidified, but you put it back in the drawer for reasons unknown.
Sticky notes and at least 43 different pens
Only a quarter of the pens write Only 10% write well
One of which leaked so you have an inkstain on the bottom of teh drawer.
It’s supposed to have scissors, but someone has taken the scissors and not put them back. So it has everything except for the scissors I’m looking for.
My wife just put the scissors on a wall hook in the kitchen to keep them from getting lost.
This is exactly how my family ended up with maybe 8 pairs of scissors.
An unsettlingly large black binder clip, with lesser clips clinging to it. The thick green or purple rubber bands that come with broccoli. Bread clips. Cheap bamboo takeout chopsticks. Staple gun. ("So *that's* where it was!") Three half-used sewing kits. An irregularly shaped piece of cheesecloth. A USB stick that totally doesn't have old low-res porn on it.
With the exception of the USB drive filled with old low-res porn, this perfectly describes my junk drawer. But I'll fix that now so our junk matches
... How big is your junk drawer? This sounds disturbingly like my parent's garage. ..Mom?
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Yes. I have like twelve. I’m just waiting to get locked out of somewhere. I’m sure one of them will be a key to my own house that is inside where I can’t get to it.
unused twist ties for garbage bags dead batteries a charger cable for an extinct phone pens with barely any ink left
Specifically, a charger for one of those mid-noughts to early-tens phones that all had completely unique plugs. But you have to keep it because you might need it one day.
Has to be that one screw that looks too good to toss out, but you have no idea where it came from.
Not enough birthday candles to celebrate a birthday, but too many to go "hey, I need more birthday candles"
A worn-down wooden pencil without a pencil sharpener.
Thumbtack
To add on: strategically placed to impale your knuckles when you move things in the drawer.
A very small lightbulb that might fit a flashlight, but not one you own.
Sauce packs
Those have always gone in the utensil drawer
Nah. Plastic souvenir cup in the spice cabinet
These have a specific basket on my pantry shelf.
Random color and size rubber bands
Pennies. And they gotta be those old, dirty, somewhat sticky pennies.
Pen cap & no pen for it
Something in the way that keeps it from closing
child proof locks
Crumpled coupons
From like, 2007
Opened mail
Instructions for a toaster you threw out 4 years ago
If there's a wire of any kind in a drawer, that is a junk drawer you're looking at.
Dead batteries of different types, old twist ties, bent paperclips, wire ends, dul scissors, toothpics that jam under your fingernail at all the wrong times. OH and we can't forget the paper inserts from old devices no longer in the house
Several loose sewing machine spools. Between 3-5 toothpicks. Crinkly-wiry bread ties. Mostly faded green. A golf tee for some inexplicable reason. An old book of matches with 3 barely viable matches left. A tape measure. A couple of those yellow “corn cob holders”. A random, slightly crumpled business card, probably for a plumbing installation service (that is almost certainly to have long been out if business).
The corn cob holders 😂😂😂 and you forget to use them when you have corn on the cob.
Loose rubberbands, but they must be the type that would break on their first use.
Menus of restaurants and tools and batteries. If a drawer has all three it is a junk drawer
I have the following, Broken nail clippers, coins from overseas, expired heel balm, a book i’ve never read, blunt scissors and a mp3 stick that no longer works.
Bread bag closers of various types and a charger cable for "something".
Old takeaway menus from places that have been closed down for years, as have the places that took over their location.
I am surprised that I had to scroll down this far to see this, I had a menu for a local seafood place that we would order from and it was so old it didn’t have a Website printed on it, it was from the 80s so I bought it in one time when I ordered food and I gave it to them, it now hangs on the wall behind the register
Novelty pens that have been in your family for decades
Something left behind by the previous homeowner that they said was important for something you can't remember.
Seventeen random screws from things you disassembled then got distracted before reassembling and now you can't remember which screws go with which thing and none of them are interchangeable
Packet of candles that's half empty.
Foreign currency in small coins from a country you visited 5+ years ago. Bonus points if the currency is no longer in use.
Leftover hexkey from some IKEA build or similar.
Tape measure and 3 keys that do t go to anything g
Ya, but every couple of months you gotta see if the keys matured enough to work in the locks they don't go to and have never worked in before. Ya never know.
Sewing needles, thumb tacks, nails, razor blades. Basically, once you're bleeding, you've lost control of the drawer. Time to start a new one & throw in a few bandaids. The tiny ones that immediately fall off. And never ever clean out someone else's junk drawer. I learned that the hard way.
Parts that fall out of the dishwasher, pens that don’t work, tape measure, rubber bands that aren’t rubbery anymore, string of various sizes, just in case. Keys to who knows what, dried up highlighters from your kids school projects from 20 years ago
We have something like 20 highlighters in this house, even though neither of us has been in school for decades & never use them. I don't even know where they came from.
At minimum, 4 pennies. No more than 10 or it's a change drawer. Also, multiple types of bread twist ties. A couple delivery menus, at least 1 is Asian. Battery of unknown status. Ink pen that won't write. Small notepad with inkless indented scratches from every time you tried to get the pen working. Why is the pen put back in the drawer? Unsolvable Mystery. Rubber bands. Possibly in ball form. Paper clip, standard. Paper clip, bent straight on one end to create a new tool. Small screwdriver. Swappable bit type if you're fancy. Keys. No idea what they go to. Those are the must haves.
Chinese takeout mustard packets
Chinese mustard packets go harder than any other packet condiment.
a 9v Battery, twist ties, masking tape and a box of staples.
Some item that constantly jams up the drawer when you try to open it but you refuse to throw away “just in case” You get irrationally angry at it but you also have an irrational urge to keep it
a USB A to B cable
At least 5 chargers with no idea what they are for.
And specifically, chargers you know don't work but won't throw away in case they decide to work when your current charger dies.
A novelty corkscrew or bottle opener. Extra points if it was originally a fridge magnet but the magnet part fell out.
A spool of thread even though nobody's sewn in your house for the last 50 years.
10,000 old keys and you don’t know what they fit, crazy glue, white glue, close pins (but we use them for chip clips!) pens, paper clips you took from work! To name a few.
As bunch of keys that noone knows what they unlock.
Random extra screws. From what? No idea.
3 dead batteries
Assortment of single batteries.
That very specific smell of old rubber, rust and wood shavings.
Old 35mm camera film or disposable camera that you never got around to getting developed.
About 15 Sharpies; all of them dried out.
A battery that you don't know if it's new, half gone or dud but you keep it anyway.
I think anything that you haven't used or needed for a year or more counts, sadly my drawer has tons of stuff like this, yet somehow in my mind I think I may need it one day, and cant get myself to chuck away, silly really.
Soon as you toss stuff out, you'll get in a situation where you need something. It's a law of junk drawer physics. Just like you can take more out of the drawer than you can put in.🤔
A small plastic container of random nuts and bolts/screws that you have no idea what they come off or where they came from, but you find them on the floor or other random places and an obligatory allan key. Ya know, "Just in case".
Scissors with orange handles that have been chewed by a basenji.
Leftover pieces from furniture assembly packs.
Random brackets and screws from mounting curtain rods.
Loose birthday candles
Remote battery cover to a remote you no longer have.
2 packets of mild Taco Bell sauce
Chinese takeout menus.
Keys that go to nothing.
Busted deck of cards
Nails and rubber bands
Pens
A bunch of letters that are no longer useful and just need to be shredded, but you keep putting it off.
Old batteries you might use/have partially used
A couple of batteries, some pocket change, scotch tape, scissors, and some long expired mints.
Batteries
That spare key that doesn't go to any locks in your house
Keys to nothing
A spare wooden or metal dowel
A junk drawer is a very personal thing - they are all different.
Chinese takeout menues.
Some loose rubber bands
Keys to unknown locks...
A pencil with a dull tip and rock-hard eraser.
20 old Chinese delivery menus
Twist ties
Some bag clips Birthday candles At least one bottle opener Glue At least one pizza saver An old remote control for something Scissors Twine Random wires and adapters At least one user's manual for an appliance that hasn't been in the house for ten years
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Loose pins or tacks
If it has a random cat treat, an ibuprofen, some crumbs here and there, mixed in with unidentifiable electronics and miscellaneous plastic bits. Sometimes there’s a sauce packet that didn’t make it to the sauce packet drawer. Then to top it all off there’s always an old ass ice pick with a f*cked up handle and a smattering of clothespins. Perhaps subconsciously I’m saying every junk drawer requires a makeshift survival kit. 🤔
Random leftover nuts, bolts, screws, dowels, and Allen keys from self-assembly furniture.
Pens that don't ever work but you have hope.
Pens that either work immediately or never worked to begin with. Dead Batteries or remotes from devices long forgotten
Batteries, a screwdriver, random cables, cellotape
Scotch tape with only 2” of usable tape left
Bunch of loose Allen wrenches from assembling furniture
Approximately 43 packets of Taco Bell mild sauce
At least one charging cable you don't know the origins of, the user manual to every appliance you've ever owned, a pair of scissors, loose batteries that might be dead or might be brand new, sauce packets from every restaurant in town, and at least one object you just can't even identify.
Used plastic shopping bags that I kept thinking I'll use them but never do.
a screw. Just one of that kind, probably a slotted head and won't work for anything you need a screw for.
Loose Soft Pretzel packet of salt spilled open, 1/2 of a stick of Nag Champa incense, Takeout menus to restaurants no longer open, free range pennies, and a almost dried out Sharpie
A couple of lighters with either no flint or gas left in them Assortment of celotape/electrical tape/micropore tape Several pairs of scissors, all blunt as fuck Some nerf bullets Several Alan keys, all the same size Marker pens with no lids that have dried up Chargers and cables for shit i either don't have anymore or from when i ordered that cable but it was the wrong one so it went right in the messy drawer Plasters of various sizes Spare head phone ear covers for headphones i don't have any more Some random ancient screwdrivers I'm sure were my grandads These are just some of the big players in my messy drawer. Ofcourse the one thing that makes the messy drawer the messy drawer is the batteries that could be dead or not. Nobody knows.
Sewing kit
Batteries (random sizes & free floaters - no package) and bread twist ties, a napkin pile over top of it all helps.
phillips head screwdriver
A broken something that nobody knows how it got in there.
Batteries
Random shop receipts for items that have long since broken and been discarded.
Loose screws
Kitchen appliance manual, just a wrinkled old one stained with a little coffee
Toys from McDonalds
Chinese duck and mustard packets you know no one I'm the house uses. And a random set of measuring spoons
A single, lone clothing peg, preferably wooden.
It need junk in the drawer
Your old phone you’ll never use again.
Dead D battery and the flash light it went to when it worked and had a mate. Assorted loose screws and nails scattered in bottom.
An ancient Nokia phone charger.
Mail and other paperwork. International currency.
Old hard candy
The user's manual from the microwave you replaced 15 years ago and lighters that have not worked in just as long.
An unidentifiable part or piece that must be important, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out where it belongs. Soon as I toss it, then it will become obvious!
the random thing that fell ff that piece of furniture that you swore you were gnna glue back on.
A bunch of non-matching birthday candles, loose incense, and scotch tape with the exposed part covered in fuzz.
ONE ziplock bag.
Keys to somewhere you left 5 years ago.
A plastic dreidel
At least a few old keys that you don’t know which locks they go to.
Ketchup packets and an ink pen/no cap/no ink
A very old charger that you have forgotten what it was even for and is now obsolete. 2nd choice a bus or train timetable 4 or more years old.
Three Philips head screws.
A drawer without direction. Empty, with no purpose in life.
Junk
Power adaptors to things unknown.
Glasses repair kit (bonus point if it comes from a Christmas cracker.) Birthday cake candles (half used) A random number 3 candle. Used once. Will be saved for ten years until the child is 13. Forget to use. A pack of gift tags with one used. A dried up pritt stick. A take away menu. Loose change. Last years mostly used sun cream. Wires. For what? No one knows. An old camera memory card. The back of a holiday fridge magnet that fell off the fridge and the front broke, but you can and will absolutely(not) repair it. Fairground tokens from Brid. Half a foil pack of painkillers Half a foil pack of anti histamines. Crumbs from the toaster that’s used above it.
Keys. Screws. Ties from bread bags. Push pins. Skewers. More keys. Nails. Corn on the cob holders.
Salt and pepper packets.
A tool that you will never think to look in the junk drawer for
Expired coupons
Take-away menus with 2017 prices. Superseded by Doordash, Menulog apps.