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debm55

(54,960 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:38 AM Jun 2025

It's junk drawer time again. Go to your junk drawer and find one think you need to get rid of. Throw it away and tell us

what it was. Thank you. Mine was a set of keys.

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It's junk drawer time again. Go to your junk drawer and find one think you need to get rid of. Throw it away and tell us (Original Post) debm55 Jun 2025 OP
A battery for the old school flip phone I had decades ago RoadRunner Jun 2025 #1
Good for you RoadRunner. One less thing in the junk drawer. debm55 Jun 2025 #4
Like other folks BOSSHOG Jun 2025 #2
Thank you BOSSHOG. debm55 Jun 2025 #6
I don't have junk drawer...anymore... MiHale Jun 2025 #3
Congratulations. MiHale. debm55 Jun 2025 #8
howdi AllaN01Bear Jun 2025 #15
I can't. There are things in there that I know will come in handy someday. Ocelot II Jun 2025 #5
But Ocelot II, most times they won't come in handy. Deep down in your heart you know that. Free yourself of one item. debm55 Jun 2025 #9
I don't even know what some of those things are. But I know I will need them. Eventually. Ocelot II Jun 2025 #11
HAHAHAHAHA. then free yourself of the item/items. You can do it. Try my friend. debm55 Jun 2025 #16
Not too long ago, I left the water dripping in the kitchen and filled up the sink, and it also filled up the junk drawer Walleye Jun 2025 #7
Thank you Walleye, well that's one way to solve the problem of Junk Drawer. debm55 Jun 2025 #10
"That's one way of doing it" is my favorite motto Walleye Jun 2025 #22
Thank you Walleye. You are set free from all the stuff in the junk drawer. debm55 Jun 2025 #23
corperate did a remod of all the apartments at tic toc base in sonora ca. AllaN01Bear Jun 2025 #12
Oh dear. AllaN01Bear. Glad you found substitutes for your meds not for junk. debm55 Jun 2025 #17
old check book from 2004, shredded though as most were still unused and the account was closed long ago Shellback Squid Jun 2025 #13
Congragulations, Shellback Squid. Now that wasn't hard was it. debm55 Jun 2025 #18
An old BigMin28 Jun 2025 #14
As is mine. A little at a time will do it. Congratulations. I am very proud of you, BigMin28 debm55 Jun 2025 #19
Leftover plastic utensils accumulated from past JMCKUSICK Jun 2025 #20
Congratulations, John. Set yourself free by slowly throwing away the junk. debm55 Jun 2025 #21
I threw away some Happy Meal toys. I found them in the back of the junk drawer and some packs of ketchup. It feels good debm55 Jun 2025 #24
When does one usually have a use for that thing? BOSSHOG Jun 2025 #25
Your right BOSSHOG, a junk drawer is a hoarder. paradise. I win. If you havenlt use it yet, You are not going to. debm55 Jun 2025 #26
The instruction manual for a long discarded appliance Raven123 Jun 2025 #27
Congratulations, Raven 123. Way to go. debm55 Jun 2025 #30
I just did that last weekend! Lilithschyld Jun 2025 #28
Thank you so much, and congratulations, Lillithschyld. debm55 Jun 2025 #31
Oh Deb, I never throw just one thing away when I do something like this! CrispyQ Jun 2025 #29
Congratulations CrispyQ. I am very proud of you. I will check out the link.I have some packs of Sweet &Low. that are debm55 Jun 2025 #32
Ummm. Most justaprogressive Jun 2025 #33
Thank you justaprogressive. Congratulations throwing those old batteries out. debm55 Jun 2025 #36
Husband's wedding ring from his 1st marriage LNM Jun 2025 #34
HAHAHAHHA. Thank you LNM. debm55 Jun 2025 #35
Which one? Seems I have 3. The original, one for the original's "overflow", and a 3rd for the overflow's overflow. retread Jun 2025 #37
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH. Start with the first one first. thank you retread. debm55 Jun 2025 #39
A cookie cutter in the shape of a Christmas Tree. Two recipes (hand written) for "Crunch green pea salad" and CTyankee Jun 2025 #38
Thank you very much CTyankee. for sharing. If it;s in the junk drawer it isn't going to be used. debm55 Jun 2025 #40
I don't even "do" Christmas any more. I stopped getting a tree about 10 years ago. CTyankee Jun 2025 #41
Thank you very much for sharing with me. My husband belong to the Congregational Church also. My family was and still is debm55 Jun 2025 #42

BOSSHOG

(44,601 posts)
2. Like other folks
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:43 AM
Jun 2025

My junk drawer is filled with valuable items which have outlived their usefulness but I cannot part with them. But I know that one day (soon) I will need that whatchmacallit and it will be there for me.

MiHale

(12,542 posts)
3. I don't have junk drawer...anymore...
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:46 AM
Jun 2025

Used to… cleaned it all out for meds…senior shift.



debm55

(54,960 posts)
9. But Ocelot II, most times they won't come in handy. Deep down in your heart you know that. Free yourself of one item.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:54 AM
Jun 2025

Ocelot II

(128,827 posts)
11. I don't even know what some of those things are. But I know I will need them. Eventually.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:57 AM
Jun 2025

Walleye

(43,691 posts)
7. Not too long ago, I left the water dripping in the kitchen and filled up the sink, and it also filled up the junk drawer
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:52 AM
Jun 2025

So now it’s all clean. Not because of my ambition though.

AllaN01Bear

(28,475 posts)
12. corperate did a remod of all the apartments at tic toc base in sonora ca.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 11:01 AM
Jun 2025

corperate took away my junk drawars . had to find substitutes.

Shellback Squid

(9,849 posts)
13. old check book from 2004, shredded though as most were still unused and the account was closed long ago
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 11:13 AM
Jun 2025

BigMin28

(1,816 posts)
14. An old
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 11:15 AM
Jun 2025

Phone jack extension. No telling how old it is. The junk drawer is 40 + years old.

debm55

(54,960 posts)
19. As is mine. A little at a time will do it. Congratulations. I am very proud of you, BigMin28
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 11:31 AM
Jun 2025

debm55

(54,960 posts)
24. I threw away some Happy Meal toys. I found them in the back of the junk drawer and some packs of ketchup. It feels good
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 12:25 PM
Jun 2025

to throw away those items. I'm free!

BOSSHOG

(44,601 posts)
25. When does one usually have a use for that thing?
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 12:54 PM
Jun 2025

Three days after you throw it away. That’s my philosophy of small hoarding justification. I seldom throw anything away so I can’t prove my hypothesis. I win.

debm55

(54,960 posts)
26. Your right BOSSHOG, a junk drawer is a hoarder. paradise. I win. If you havenlt use it yet, You are not going to.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 12:59 PM
Jun 2025

Lilithschyld

(90 posts)
28. I just did that last weekend!
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 01:11 PM
Jun 2025

As usual, I keep all the plastic clips that come on bags of onions and potatoes. I don't know why I keep them, I NEVER use them. They're gone now (until the next time I buy something that has one).

CrispyQ

(40,612 posts)
29. Oh Deb, I never throw just one thing away when I do something like this!
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 01:17 PM
Jun 2025

I cleaned out my aluminum foil drawer. It also has tins of rubber bands, twist ties, a small box with batteries. I tossed a couple of old chip bag clips that we never used, weird sized foil that we'll never use, the handle to some pot that I probably threw away a long time ago, & many, many packets of pepper flakes from the pizza shop.

BTW, if you like pepper flakes, Flatiron Pepper Co has the best. I'm addicted to this variety. Soup, salad, eggs, pasta, hummus, PIZZA! I put it on everything. I buy 2-3 bottles at a time. It has some serious bite to it!

https://www.flatironpepper.com/products/dark-smoky-2

debm55

(54,960 posts)
32. Congratulations CrispyQ. I am very proud of you. I will check out the link.I have some packs of Sweet &Low. that are
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 01:43 PM
Jun 2025

have been sitting in there forever.

retread

(3,887 posts)
37. Which one? Seems I have 3. The original, one for the original's "overflow", and a 3rd for the overflow's overflow.
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 05:09 AM
Jun 2025

CTyankee

(67,737 posts)
38. A cookie cutter in the shape of a Christmas Tree. Two recipes (hand written) for "Crunch green pea salad" and
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 08:04 AM
Jun 2025

"Sausage Striata" and another recipe from a newspaper clipping dated Oct. 3, 2003.

debm55

(54,960 posts)
40. Thank you very much CTyankee. for sharing. If it;s in the junk drawer it isn't going to be used.
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 10:20 AM
Jun 2025

CTyankee

(67,737 posts)
41. I don't even "do" Christmas any more. I stopped getting a tree about 10 years ago.
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 01:56 PM
Jun 2025

my poor hubby had to cut down the ends to fit into the holder. He was born into the liberal Protestant Congregational Church but had converted to Judaism years before I even met him. He grew up non-religiously Christian and always had had xmas trees, so he had the experience. I was brought up totally "unchurched."

debm55

(54,960 posts)
42. Thank you very much for sharing with me. My husband belong to the Congregational Church also. My family was and still is
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 03:01 PM
Jun 2025

strict Catholic.

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