The kitchen "junk drawer"

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Tell us what's in your kitchen junk drawer. Y'know, the one where everything ends up that doesn't belong anywhere else.

I'll start (in order of how I haul them out):

Clothes pins, rubber bands, clips, twist ties, matches, a small rubber foot off some counter-top appliance that I no longer have.

A dried-out glue stick, two marking pens, a roll of blank labels, scotch tape, two note pads, a souvenir koozie, zip ties, lots and lots of chopsticks, a small picture frame (no picture), several fridge magnets that have lost their magnets but I like them too much to throw away (no magnets, though).

A broken tea infuser, a cork, three lighters, two rubber jar openers, a spring, two tape measures, a bottle opener, a nut cracker, several nut picks, a screwdriver, a small combination hammer-and-screwdriver, a picture hanging kit, and a not-Swiss army knife, a container of plastic utensils, two quarters and a penny, a paintbrush, two corkscrews.

A fridge magnet of Michelangelo's David sans figleaf that my Morality-Patrol great-granddaughter informed me last year was "naughty".

A backscratcher missing a couple of teeth. A pair of scissors that wouldn't cut warm butter.

Jimmy Hoffa's body and Jimmy Buffett's lost shaker of salt. Okay, that was just to see if you're paying attention.....

Half the stuff is going in the trash or somewhere else in a few minutes.

Here's the challenge: What's in YOUR junk drawer?

Top prize goes to whoever finds the oddest thing to have in a junk drawer. It's gonna have to beat a naked man, though....
 

Having a tiny kitchen it has only two drawers. One holds cooking utensils and the other holds eating utensils. Feeling deprived I put a dresser in the dining area. Now, that dresser is another story. I will give just the highlights so matrix won't be messaging me about paragraph breaks.

Drawer one contains kitchen towels. Drawer two contains various tools (not kitchen tools, real tools). Drawer three contains table cloths and napkins. Drawer four contains JUNK. That includes everything from a road atlas to a mouse trap. Drawer five contains batteries, coasters, important pieces of cardboard I might need one day, old rubber bands, well, you get it. Oh, and lest I forget it also holds a "round tuit". And finally drawer number six contains plastic utensils for camping, craft supplies and hot glue gun along with a metal Williams Sonoma peppermint bark can which holds locks, keys, lamp wick, lighter................ I'm gonna stop there, but I have plenty of junk. :ROFLMAO:
 

All the things you have listed pretty much. The dogs ear drops are in the medicine cabinet!! The dogs are still here.

The one thing is a baby pacifier. Yes, that baby is now 35 years old but it makes me smile every time I open that drawer. And yes, there are others stashed around the house. I leave them where they are to make my son laugh when I die. Oh look, it is my buddy!! He will also find the little ring for his wee=wee, his hospital bracelet, the card on his bassinet and his baby teeth. Will he be shocked, no, he knows how dear he is, but it will make him laugh.
 
I'm pretty organized but we do have that "one drawer" in the kitchen. It holds scotch tape, glue, 2 wood touch-up sticks, sticky pads that go on furniture legs, some old chargers that are never used, some rubber bands and a few other things that I'm not even aware of. I purposely went through cabinets, cupboards, drawers, etc. after I retired and cleared things out but didn't touch that drawer. I mean, who knows when we will use that charger that doesn't fit any of our devices?

Speaking of Oscar and Felix, my partner is more like Felix. He received a pair of personal placemats a few weeks ago given to him by his store employees. We will never use them. He put them on the laundry room counter and they are still there. He likes to say he likes for things to "air out". :ROFLMAO: I will be the one finding a home for them.
 
I have a junk drawer in kitchen with large cutting knife, scissors, box cutter, pizza cutter, some appliance user instructions. a box with old matches, just in case we need them, probably will not light, oh and some pens which will probably not work and a power cord to an appliance, I do not use. It is truly a junk drawer.
 
I have several kitchen junk drawers that contain a mixture of proper kitchen items like clean dish towels and kitchen knives, unusual items like hand tools often needed (like screwdrivers and utility knives), and questionable to nearly-worthless items, like rubber bands, twist-ties, and weak batteries possibly useable when desperateā€¦ šŸ˜ø
 
My kitchen has a vertical row of small 5x5 drawers that contain what would ordinarily be in one junk drawer. I'm hyper organized so I love them.
The top drawer contains pens, stamps, note pads and business envelopes.
The second drawer contains a lone pair of scissors. Hubs keeps trying to put other things in there because it looks like there's plenty of room but I use those scissors many times a day and I don't want to dig for them with my right hand while my left hand holds a bag of frozen spinach.
The third drawer contains things that make light, flashlights, matches and batteries.
The fourth drawer contains things that hold other things, scotch tape, electrical tape, twist ties, rubber bands, glue.
Pappy said:
One drawer by the sink has a 1956 Betty Crocker cookbook in it. A wedding present from my MIL to her daughter.
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I got one of those as a wedding present, too! I learned to cook from that and still use it for many recipes. It has the best potato salad recipe in the world.
 
Excuse the mess, but I just pulled open the kitchen junk drawer and took the photo.. so you see it in the raw....:D

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