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Name 5 “Must Have” Things in Your Junk Drawer, and Then Name…

Sunday, 3 September 2023, 7:20 BFH Uncategorized 59

… the one item that you feel is most unique to yours.

59 Comments on Name 5 “Must Have” Things in Your Junk Drawer, and Then Name…

  19. Scissors.

    Ancient Band-Aids that may or may not be sticky and/or sterile.

    Bits of plastic that someone thought “look important”.

    Discharged batteries.

    Non-working flashlight (see “Discharged Batteries” above),

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  22. The post-pic is a pretty junk drawer.

    I keep my scissors and Scotch tape in junk drawer with pens, pencils, markers, clips, rubber bands, maybe some crayons. A good mess.

    Like others above, I have many junk drawers, junk boxes/bags, closet. Basically, the whole house. Working on it.

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  24. Ring of keys for which there are no locks
    Garage door opener for the house before this
    Leftover Ikea fasteners
    AC power adapter for ?
    6 foot roll of coax cable

    (Hey it’s a junk drawer, not a useful stuff drawer)

    pocket knife (I have one in aimost every drawer)

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  26. My dad (he was a mechanic all of his life) always had more junk, old screws, fasteners of all sorts, old washers of all shapes and sizes, every kind of tool imaginable, old cans of oil etc. etc. in his garage and not just junk drawers because he never knew when he might need something to fix things. He was a ginormous pack rat and always had old issues of Popular Science, Popular Mechanics etc. in his basement work room. All of his old issues of Outdoor Life and other outdoor hunting/fishing magazines were always hanging around the small table next to his recliner. I once saw him fashion and craft a washer for a leaky hose connector out of the junk in his large assortment of stuff, he didn’t let anything go to waste. It was heck of a chore cleaning that all that out after he died between my brother and me.

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  28. I’d bet that a lot of the junk in junk drawers are single use items. A couple of weeks ago I repaired a corrugated hose on my washing machine and had to buy a fairly large tube of Permatex rubber caulk/sealant at the auto parts store. I only needed about 2 inches of the stuff squeezed from the tube and now I’ve got about a pint of the stuff. And if I ever need to us it again it will be rock hard in the tube. Guaranteed. Just like all those tubes and containers of super glue that either have the cap fused on them or are dried up after a single use.

    I have an assortment of keys to the locks and ignitions of mystery. I’m afraid to throw them out because I KNOW as soon as I do. . .

    And among ALL those ball point pens, do you think I can find one that writes?!

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  32. A small pencil case with a few pens (all working), pencils and a couple sharpies.

    A sandwich baggie of rubber bands and Velcro cord wraps.

    Duct tape

    Scissors

    ICE binder and address book

    My must have is a hand crank flashlight.
    I don’t have to find batteries for it in the dark.
    Now, only if I could find the junk drawer in the dark.

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  33. Hank of 550 cord, electrical tape, Leatherman multi tool, box of razor blades, and bottle of gorilla glue. I also keep a book of stamps in there, because I don’t do electronic billing.

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  34. @Abilgail – I’m assuming it is RTV silicone. When you store your caulk be sure to squeeze out some before you put the cap on and don’t let any back-up into the tube before threading the cap on. That way the only part that will harden is just at the tip. Anything exposed to air will harden. When you go to use it next time use a small twist drill bit to clear out the hardened portion at the tip and it will be just like new.

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  35. I pretty much have all the small tools & tape that everyone else has.
    My unique item is a reverse threaded adapter to convert standard propane grill tanks to the obsolete Weber quick attach regulator. My original 25+ year old regulator still works perfectly on my trash picked genesis 1000.

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  38. I just found 4 uncancelled .33 cent stamps, a few Christmas forever stamps, pens of all sorts, most that don’t write, a couple of old cell phones, scraps of paper with all sorts of stuff written on them, old pay stubs, a roll of scotch tape and God knows what else in the desk drawers underneath my computer. Old appliance user manuals that I never threw away and just plain junk of every description.

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  39. And I found in all my dad’s papers and assorted old photos and other stuff after he died a perfect uncancelled one cent stamp on a pristine envelope from the late 40’s when he was in the Air Force that could be worth a few bucks. Who knows. And my wife’s obituary as well as one of my uncles. I’m still looking for the personally signed Johnny Weismuller (Tarzan) autograph that my dad got from his older brother in the 1940’s when my uncle had met him at the Coronado pool on NAS N. Island during World War 2. I’m as a big a pack rat as anyone else is.

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  41. We have 2 junk drawers one is 33 inches long and a garage.
    Most of the stuff like you all have,one thing I keep in one is extra 12 gauge shotgun shells.
    As for AA’s keys we also have a carton of key tags just sitting there. I use them for clients job keys.

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  42. Well, I really don’t have any junk drawers…do have a barn, though. Lots of shelves and some mission-specific drawers. Pretty sure everything out there is must have…never know when you’re gonna need it! Does that count?

    IATS
    TWD

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  43. WD-40 and Duck Tape. That’s all you need.
    If it moves and it’s not supposed to, use the duck tape.
    If it doesn’t move, and it’s supposed to, use the WD-40.

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  44. tape measure
    medicines for the cats
    emery board
    vaseline tubes instead of Chapstick
    dental floss

    unique to this drawer – a small rose made of bee’s wax for waxing thread or sticky zippers, a bag of various sizes syringes for giving water chasers after pilling cats up to large feeding tube size, medications i don’t take any more but keep ‘just in case’

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  47. We don’t have a junk drawer. We use a large clear storage box that can be lifted in and out of one of the shelves in my pantry (the Mr. knows better than to put any junk in my kitchen drawers!)

    Contents include:

    Stamps
    Check book
    Generator keys
    A baggie of various service providers business cards
    Toothpicks

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  57. You have a barn? That’s pretty cool. Why does NASA have Chicom sub titles?
    If I had a barn I turn it into the ultimate man cave. Gym, the ultimate hot rod intensive care center, and a place to tie up your womenz.

  58. Of course I have a barn. It goes with the acreage. It has a studio, music room and a place for bikes and whatever piece of crap car I’m working on.

    However, this last storm tore one sliding barn door off. Soo… I need to go sweep.

  59. i have a “tool drawer’ which, strangely enough, is full of tools…actually two of them, one downstairs and one upstairs….

    also, i have a “weird unknown device” drawer, full of bags full of unknown devices that look like they’re important….

    in my other junk drawer, i have the accessories for my camera, incense, lens cleaner, erasers, pencils, and various weird things i keep in small baggies….

    weird thing no one else keeps…..extra wires for the cheese slicer…

    ……ta da…..

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