Junk Drawer!

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Everyone has that random drawer in their house that contains everything from old screws to ketchup packets to electrical tape.

Let's create our own Autism Forums Junk Drawer.

Name one thing that goes in a Junk Drawer. I'll go first.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Duct Tape

 

[Forest Cat]

Keys - you don`t know where they came from and they do not fit in anything in your home. Somewhere there is a drawer full of locks...

 

[LadyS]

101 plug adapters (I definitely have multiple junk drawers though )

 

[maycontainthunder]

Pens that don't work.

 

[Owliet]

Random paper clip

 

[maycontainthunder]

Forgotten packet of mints.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Old receipts from 20 years ago!

 

[Judge]

My OCD prohibits even the thought of any one drawer being a receptacle for random objects.

Everything is in its place by design. - "Deutsche Ordnung"

I even have two boxes of pennies for change in a drawer. One for shiny new ones and the other for tarnished copper pennies probably as old as I am. My bad.

 

[maycontainthunder]

Obligatory dead insect.

 

[Raggamuffin]

plasters/band aids and stamps?

Ed

 

[Suzette]

From the junk drawer of the sailing vessel Gitana, a fine selection from our junk drawer.
Ice pick, hose spayer thingy, random cap, razor blade scraper, coffee scoops. The deep and terrible secrets remain unseen. (edit: I didn't realize the pic was so bad. But I am leaving it as is)

 

[FlowerFlo]

A wierd oversized green ant made of rubber, that you just keep because you had it for so long and you dont know where it came from.

 

[Forest Cat]

A glue stick that is always dried-out and useless.

 

[Mary Terry]

I call it the "hell drawer". I think it contains everything mentioned so far, plus old matchbooks, strange bartender tools that we never use, kitchen twine, rubber bands, and who knows what?!

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Hundreds of batteries of various sizes that you keep forgetting you have and thus end up buying new ones that also end up being forgotten about!

 

[Suzette]

Anyone else have little baggies of wire twist ties, spare eyeglass parts or grommets?

 

[Judge]

There`s always a tampon in a junk drawer. I`m a man and I live alone but if you check my junk drawer now, I`ll bet $50 there`s a tampon there somewhere. It`s a mystery, where do they come from?

Osmosis can be a strange thing. Reminds me of when I was moving and found a bra inside my sleeper sofa.

 

[Suzette]

There`s always a tampon in a junk drawer. I`m a man and I live alone but if you check my junk drawer now, I`ll bet $50 there`s a tampon there somewhere. It`s a mystery, where do they come from?

When we bought our boat there were a couple of large packs of infant diapers in the head. The people we bought the boat from were in their 70s. We had wild ideas like they were going to donate the diapers to the local orphanage, were putting diapers on their old dog etc. Then one day a fellow boaty asked if we had any diapers on board Turns out the diapers are used to absorb oil when working on the engine. Brilliant!

 

[Forest Cat]

A "Buy 10 and get 1 for free" card from a store or a car wash or something, it has been stamped 9 times and it expired 3 years ago.