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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat weird thing would someone find in your junk drawer?
I'm guessing everyone has a junk drawer in their house. Is there something strange you keep in yours?
CrispyQ
(38,745 posts)It's not as good as today's openers with the little razor blade but I keep it around.
3catwoman3
(25,868 posts)I have at least 4.
Jilly_in_VA
(11,276 posts)But we have two junk drawers in the kitchen.
EYESORE 9001
(27,677 posts)Mine, actually. I retrieved the little monster, rinsed it off, put it in a small plastic container, and intended to show my doctor. I looked at photos, however, and determined it was an oxalate stone, so I didnt bother taking it to play show-and-tell with the busy doctor. In time, the container found its way into a junk drawer ( I do have more than one, yunno), where it sat for a year or so. My wife was amused and disgusted all at once after she presented the medical relic and inquired about its origins.
House of Roberts
(5,791 posts)on a CNC mill myself, but the two major items are a new Porsche belt buckle of a style I couldn't find a match for online, and a new Porsche 365 horn button that supposedly goes to a pre A or A model 356 (1952 -1959).
surrealAmerican
(11,524 posts)... with an advertisement for a bar.
This was inherited from my parents, who did not frequent bars, nor ever use blocks of ice. I'm sure there's a story behind how they ended up with this, but it's a story I never heard.
2naSalit
(94,170 posts)In my place to have a junk drawer!
But never fear, I have junk baskets and bowls! Been cleaning them out lately so I have all kinds of weird stuff.
cloudbase
(5,835 posts)I have no idea how they got there.
Iggo
(48,655 posts)I meant to donate it, but I never got around to it.
2naSalit
(94,170 posts)The whole thing, about the size of a big marble, in a little box. It never got put with the rest of the collection that's packaged up in storage. I have a small collection of failed hives that are all smaller than a golf ball. This one will soon be united with its kind now that I've found it again.
I realized I didn't answer the question in my comment above. And I had to go look.
Ziggysmom
(3,674 posts)Midnight Writer
(23,248 posts)Marthe48
(19,619 posts)and keep it in my knife drawer, use it often
Marthe48
(19,619 posts)I got an old table knife in a box of junk at an auction. The blade had been honed down to a thin blade, at the tip, almost looks like an icepick. That has been one of the handiest tools for me, ever since. I've used it as a pottery tool, on furniture refinishing, just anything where a traditonal tool wasn't going to help do the job. I keep it handy, one of the few things I can grab without a search
ProfessorGAC
(71,051 posts)With all the sinks and faucet assemblies having the gnurled plastic nuts, I don't really need a sink wrench anymore. But, it's still in that drawer.
Niagara
(9,995 posts)Oh my bad, they're only putty knives.
Archae
(46,941 posts)Kira ignores it, but Raven goes bananas trying to chew holes in it.
Clouds Passing
(3,174 posts)I found in the desert wilderness. Ancient.