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Growing up my mother always had a "junk drawer" in all of our kitchens. Scissors, 1000 pens, coupons, rubber bands, sunglasses, flashlights, random keys -- you name it.
I didn't see where you mentioned YOUR stuff, just your mother's.
Scissors - in the desk.
1000 pens - don't have 1000. Pens, a sharpie, highlighter are in a cup by the appointment book.
Coupons - in a basket in the kitchen, organized by month.
Rubber bands - in the desk
Sunglasses - in each car
Flashlight - in a drawer in each bedroom
Random keys - don't have any
The drawer you describe is called the mommy drawer. Junk drawers are elsehwere. There must be 20-30 of them. Drawers are mostly used for junk. What else are they for?
Yes, several in the kitchen. I can't seem to go through them, throw stuff out and put everything into one drawer. We had one in the kitchen growing up. It was next to the silverware drawer in our kitchen. I think as we have moved to having a designated office in our homes, a lot of this type of "junk" has migrated into that space...or at least into a desk somewhere.
Growing up, there was always a junk drawer in the kitchen and one in the family room. My wife doesn't like them, so we don't have one. Most of the junk is left on the counter until we get sick of it and throw it out.
Junk drawers are like Lays potato chips. You can't have just one.
One junk drawer in the kitchen holds scissors -- the desk is upstairs, far away from the kitchen, so why wouldn't make sense to keep a second pair in a place where I use them quite frequently -- a screwdriver, glue, tape, safety glasses, floral wire and tape, thumbtacks, screws, a small hammer, and maybe a washer or two. Mostly stuff that I use frequently enough that I don't want to run out to the shed to get the toolbox to fish through.
The other kitchen junk drawer holds miscellaneous kitchen stuff -- rolling pin, biscuit cutter, straws, toothpicks, wine bottle corks, jar openers, and other stuff that can't be categorized in volumes large enough to warrant their own drawers.
No - disorganized surroundings (which one has control of) represent a disorganized mind. Ha ha! just joking with you. I live alone so it's very easy to maintain order.
It would be difficult to go through life without accumulating much of what ends up being junk - the books and magazines never read, the novelties bought on impulse, the free samples sent in the mail, not to mention a thousand things saved to gratify some personal sentiment - the bric-a-brac and detritus of daily existence. Most of it ought to be discarded firsthand, but some of it manages to stay past the year’s Spring cleaning; and all too soon, it piles up again. At first, it seems but a benign intrusion - after all, it might someday be useful, even needed, one thinks - but it continues to grow, taking up more and more space. After a while, it even takes on one’s persona, making it all the more difficult to part with even a single piece of it; until, finally, the clutter controls the man, and he becomes its faithful custodian - to serve it all his days.
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