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bif

(25,393 posts)
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 02:59 PM Jan 2025

What 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?

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What weird thing would someone find in your junk drawer? (Original Post) bif Jan 2025 OP
I inherited an old brass letter opener, with a heavy but cute mouse body & a bladed tail. CrispyQ Jan 2025 #1
How many of us have only one junk drawer? 3catwoman3 Jan 2025 #2
Ant traps, I guess Jilly_in_VA Jan 2025 #3
A kidney stone EYESORE 9001 Jan 2025 #4
My top dresser drawer has some small machine parts I programmed and ran House of Roberts Jan 2025 #5
an ice pick ... surrealAmerican Jan 2025 #6
Not enough drawers... 2naSalit Jan 2025 #7
Tire valve caps with a Volvo logo on them. cloudbase Jan 2025 #8
An 18-inch braid of human hair from when I stopped being a longhair back in '05. Iggo Jan 2025 #9
A bee hive. 2naSalit Jan 2025 #10
A baby tooth from a long past kitty named Ollie, in a little test tube. Ziggysmom Jan 2025 #11
A brass bottle opener in the shape of a well-built naked woman. Midnight Writer Jan 2025 #12
I have one of those Marthe48 Jan 2025 #14
All I can call it is a shiv Marthe48 Jan 2025 #13
A Sink Wrench ProfessorGAC Jan 2025 #15
Two prison shanks! Niagara Jan 2025 #16
A ball of solid catnip. Archae Jan 2025 #17
Shark teeth Clouds Passing Jan 2025 #18

CrispyQ

(39,615 posts)
1. I inherited an old brass letter opener, with a heavy but cute mouse body & a bladed tail.
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 03:03 PM
Jan 2025

It's not as good as today's openers with the little razor blade but I keep it around.

EYESORE 9001

(28,227 posts)
4. A kidney stone
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 03:26 PM
Jan 2025

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 didn’t 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

(6,005 posts)
5. My top dresser drawer has some small machine parts I programmed and ran
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 03:29 PM
Jan 2025

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

(11,624 posts)
6. an ice pick ...
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 03:49 PM
Jan 2025

... 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

(96,807 posts)
7. Not enough drawers...
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 03:50 PM
Jan 2025

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.



Iggo

(48,822 posts)
9. An 18-inch braid of human hair from when I stopped being a longhair back in '05.
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 04:46 PM
Jan 2025

I meant to donate it, but I never got around to it.

2naSalit

(96,807 posts)
10. A bee hive.
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 05:40 PM
Jan 2025

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.

Marthe48

(20,600 posts)
13. All I can call it is a shiv
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 06:49 PM
Jan 2025

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

(72,580 posts)
15. A Sink Wrench
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 08:20 PM
Jan 2025

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.

Archae

(47,127 posts)
17. A ball of solid catnip.
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 09:10 PM
Jan 2025

Kira ignores it, but Raven goes bananas trying to chew holes in it.

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