Junk drawer

[rick carpenter]

Do any of y'all, despite your best intentions not to do so, have a junk drawer? I do. I'm like a bug drawn to a porchlight. When cleaning up, I moan and groan about my junk drawer and vow to do away with it, and then drop two or three things right in it. Thank goodness after clean up there's usually a beer to ease my pain.

 

[66dave]

Guilty over here!

 

[holdover]

my Junk drawer has saved my **** many times over the last 50 years, just never know what is to be found in there!

 

[koditten]

plural

 

[nine4gmc]

The only people I know without a junk drawer, have junk rooms...

 

[Shadowdog500]

I bet darn near everyone has a junk drawer! I also agree that it sometimes saves your ****.

My dad always kept a metal oil drain pan under his bench where he would toss anything that may be useful for something later. Digging through that pan and modifying something out of that pan to work was our normal routine when trying to fix something that you didn't have parts for. Can't tell you how many times the junk pan saved the day.

Chris

 

[DIC]

You gota have a junk drawer..I got junk cabinets, I like to have anything on hand to fix anything

 

[Vegaman_Dan]

I sort out the junk drawer into junk bolts/metal hardware, electrical bits,singular tools/specialty, furniture bits, etc. I use a lot of those inexpensive clear plastic food containers from Glad and Ziploc. They work great for keeping all the loose stuff in the cupboards where I can see it.

So I don't have a junk drawer, but I sure have a lot of 'misc-assorted' containers.

 

[DriftTech]

i have a junk shed
blown engines blown transmissions misc parts random brake rotors i have no idea wtf there for
but no junk drawer

 

[kevin47]

That's nothin...Every thing i own is junk, I swear...And if it ain't junk now it soon will be...

 

[4Tigers]

Guilty --- some stuff has probably been there 20 plus years

 

[slamin81]

o ya guilty here also, hay i clean it out once a yr...lol she still ain't happy

 

[fringeofinsanity]

I've always had one. I clear it out once a year or so, and there is plenty hat stays year after year. It never fails though, bout a week after I clear it out, I need something that USED to be in there!

 

[7th Kahuna]

You have just got to stop thinking of it as a junk drawer. It's more of a resource center. In my case, items I'm not ready to part with, but which don't warrant the time or thought to organize them another way. Any time I go looking for something I cull some out. Anytime I clean, I add some more. My goal is only to limit the space it occupies.

 

[Drew_flux]

Used two bolts and a wiring connector from the junk draw today.

 

[Garage5.9]

I like to call it the macgyver drawer

 

[darkk]

We have 2-3 junk drawers in our tool box. We have a massive amount of storage everywhere and we still throw junk in the tool box. Why is that, I really just don't understand...

 

[NUTTSGT]

Honestly, I think I can say that I don't have a junk drawer in my tool box. I do have a drawer that has some odd tools in it, that don't group well with others. wirebrushes, hacksaw/blades, oil filter wrenches, mirrors, safety wire, magnets and hooks/picks. Another drawer full of gaskets and the 50th anniversary of ******* still sealed in plastic. Another with braided line and parts for the next engine, but nothing really I could call a junk drawer.

I also have a bucket for old bolts and a tote with scrap steel.

 

[Jhoff310]

I proudly have a garage offsite that is a "junk garage"...its full of everything. I live by the philosophy "the man with the most junk wins"....I think I am a strong contender for first place.

Red Green comes to me for junk...lol

Jeff

 

[BrianC636]

Guilty! I have a couple of divider bins with misc stuff in them. I HATE cleaning them but will gladly clean the entire shop...it's strange I know.

 

[Alta_Racer]

In my own shop, I have lots of bins and drawers full of "junk" but it is fairly well organized.

At work, I have a little box with new plastic push rivets, hose clamps, and a good supply of new light bulbs. it takes much too long on flat rate to wait for these smalls from our slow parts department, I work flat rate.

Because of being on flat rate, I have no junk drawer. I will not waste valuable drawer space to store **** that costs me time to search for that oddball bolt, nut or washer etc. It only takes away my time to search for something that will not even get charged to the customer, and I wont get paid to search for it.

I used to have a junk drawer, but one day I spent an hour looking for something I could not find. The next day I dumped it all in the trash, and bought enough tools to fill the drawer, which now actually makes me money.

 

[Old Moparz]

No junk drawers for me, but my wife has several that I won't open. I know one of them has at least 3 or 4 things in it that I need, like scissors, paper clips, etc., but I still won't go near it. I'd rather go to the store & buy a duplicate for myself & hide it for when I do need it. I have to hide it because if I don't & she sees it, she'll go off on how I spent money on something we already have & tell me it's in the drawer.

Ever try one of those small, wooden puzzles that have sliding pieces that interlock & only come apart & go together one way? That's what it's like opening up a junk drawer in my house. It has to be emptied to get what you need but the **** never goes back in.

 

[Kev442]

Have several. The wife was just laughing at me as I had sorted the basement drawer and then dumped the remains into a large box. I was giving it the last paw through to see if anything left was of use.
She said I looked like the show Hoarders where they are desperately pawing through a random box they haven't even opened for 20 years looking for things of "value". I emptied the box into the trash can right in front of her.
"Let's see that happen on Hoarders" I replied.

 

[GRX]

Junk drawer? Nah! If it's truly junk it's trashed.

I prefer to call mine the drawer for random things which may or may not be useful some day.

 

[5lima30]

Junk drawer? I have several junk drawers! One for unused/unwanted holsters, one for EDC stuff & folding knives, one for broken tools to be replaced, and of course the standard kitchen drawer containing odds and ends that both my wife and I use.

 

[Dan_inthewind]

I have one smaller pull out for my junk.

It's where I keep my good stuff!

 

[Mr. D]

I have a junk drawer in my kitchen and always have. It's one of those mysteries of life that no one can explain why we have these but we do.

 

[VWPORSCHEGT3]

junk computer part box, junk drawer in garage, junk misc VW parts box.... etc if there is something i own that goes through parts i always save stuff

 

[GRX]

Seems I remember reading somewhere that some engineering classes have a "junk drawer robotics" test where students are taught to improvise. Each student is given a box of random excess parts to make a working robot from.

 

[Steevo]

I have evolved from "junk drawer" to "organized inventory".

That means I have multiple drawers, and some semblance of order as to what goes into them.