What's in your "Junk" Drawer?

     I bet everyone has a junk drawer.  Ours is in the kitchen, it's a handy place to put things you don't need now but you might use in the future.  Having a junk drawer has saved me many trips to the basement to find a screw, pliers, twist ties, etc.

     My wife (Mimi) has occasional mentioned that we need to clean out the junk drawer.  I have to admit it has a lot of junk and you can feel the heavy weight of the drawer when you pull it out, but if we cleaned it out we could no longer call it a junk drawer.

     So I decided I would take an inventory the junk drawer, just to see if it contained anything unnecessary.  Here's what I found, many screws, bolts, nuts washers, batteries, glue, plastic golf ball, hammer, screwdriver, pliers, tin snips, variety of tapes, electric outlets/covers, hinges, matches, key holder, taillight bulbs, flashlight, lighter, key holder, zip ties, tape measure, tire gauge, razor blades, plastic things, door stops, sockets, padlock, electrical tape (I've been looking for that), wire, string, keys to who knows what, spark plug remover, air freshener, magnets, fuses, plus odds & ends that I'm not sure what they go to and a piece of cinnamon toast, Nah! I'm just kidding about that.

     That is quite a collection and I'm sure if I would dig around a little I could find a few more special things in our junk drawer.  I guess in the time it took to inventory the junk, I could have purged a few items, but that was not on my agenda for the day.  I wonder what the weight capacity is of a junk drawer?  I may be pushing the limit.

     I found it to be oddly entertaining to search around through the junk drawer discovering objects that we had forgotten.  It was like a miniature adventure without the danger.  In an effort to find out what the oddest thing I had in the junk drawer I decided to go back in and make a deep dive into the drawer.  I emptied the junk drawer out into a bucket then found what I considered to be the 2 best candidates.  It was a close race between 2 items, dental floss and Q-tips but I chose the floss; well let's call it "Guest Floss" for visitors.  With all the concern about germs, Who wouldn't want to use floss from a junk drawer?  With everything now in a bucket, this would be the perfect time to dispose of a few items..............but no I decided to put them back in the junk drawer.  It's junk going into a junk drawer, a perfect marriage.  Anybody need some floss?