I don't have a junk drawer; I do, however, have a junk ROOM.

What? Only 1 drawer???

Haha, I was wondering: which one?

I'm glad I'm not the only one with multiples!

Reread my post, I wrote, ..."took a picture of their junk drawer, or one of them."

Now get to it! I do have one in my bedroom, and in a desk drawer in the LR.

I do have an empty drawer in the UR. And I have no idea what to put inside it. Unusual problem, for sure.

Here’s my kitchen “junk” drawer. I can honestly say that it stays organized like this all the time. My kitchen is super-organized . . . unlike our guest room, which has sadly become a dumping ground for everything else during this last Christmas season! This year’s goal, no this MONTH’S goal, is to tackle that next!

I don't have a kitchen junk drawer. I have a system of "junk" collectors...

I have a "handy tools" and such drawer in my laundry room that holds a hammer, pliers, picture hangers, felt feet for furniture, glue, and a tape measure.

Since I have a secretary in my living room, that furniture contains my "office" if you will.

In my back hallway, I have three baskets. One for quickly grabbing a flashlight, scissors, a Swiss Army knife for opening packages, etc. One basket for, keep paperwork for awhile (receipts/mail) but won't need to file it or keep it longterm. One basket for coupons, which I empty into the recycling every 1-2 months, if I didn't need them.

Okay, I'll play, too.

One of the joys of cleaning out junk drawers is finding treasures like this:

Lynn, maybe not in the kitchen, but surely you have a real junk drawer? lol. The drawer you have looks like office supplies, with lipstick! I like it!

Cmm, I'm laughing at all the scotch tape you have, just like the ten rolls I found.

Bpat, oh dear, your drawer reminds me of one I have in the utility room, where I keep my small appliances and a lot of plastic bags in bags. The second drawer, how sweet!

Looks like there are quite a few scotch tape hoarders! ;-)

I LOVE this bag holder. It sits on the floor in the pantry. It is the size of a very small trash can. I've searched around and it appears to have been discontinued :(

Simple Human bag holder

The crumpled-up, nested bags are courtesy of a family member who shall be nameless but whose initials are DH lol! Me, I fold the bags and keep stashes where they are used as liners for wastebaskets and small trash cans.

LOL, yes my other “junk” drawer in my laundry room is just as organized. But, like I said, my guest room right now is seriously a big and complete mess! It looks like someone turned it upside down and shook it! We’re heading to Taos tomorrow morning for 4 days. I’ve already warned my housesitter not to even open the door in there. The rest of the house, though, is cleaned and waiting for her. All she needs to do is vacuum before she leaves on Monday (because my 2 dogs and her big dog, Grizz, all shed so darn much! But, she loves house sitting here, thank goodness!). The guest room (sigh!) is my next MAJOR project when we get back.

I don't have a junk drawer either. I am an organizer-so everything has a place and I try to put it back in the place each time. Now-until it actually GETS to it's place it tends to either get thrown on to my desk or into baskets that are dedicated for certain places. But I usually get those emptied out at least once a week.

Now, my DH on the other hand is a mess. I don't know how someone with OCD can live with someone with ADD, but it works. As long as all my drawers, shelves and cupboards are precisely organized and labeled, I can over look his messes.

Well this is indeed embarrassing! You can see by the little plastic baskets I had some sort of system (or at least higher hopes) for organization! Maybe I will clean it out today! (Probably not...with my dh and 2 teens it is a Sisyphus-ian task.) :)

One, we are only to have ONE? LOL

Dee, that was funny. Of course then you have to go into all sorts of contortions to get it open again.

Dee, that's why my junk drawer is 30" w x 11" h x 20" d. The problem I foresee is I'll fill the darn thing up and lose everything! lol

I don't have a pic, but I did recently clean out my junk drawerS. Even to the extent that I took every pen and pencil in the house (we have one drawer in the kitchen for pens, paper, tape, etc, plus pen cups on two desks and another by the phone upstairs) and tested them, and any duds went in the trash. To take it a step further (OCD alert), I pulled out all the pens I've taken home from hotel rooms and put them in their own box. We also take home a key card from most hotels we stay in. Maybe I'll figure out a way to display them all. A key card and pen collage? I am kidding and I do realize it's dopey to keep the key cards. At least the pens have a function.

My trick for storing plastic bags is to save an empty kleenex box and stuff them in there. It makes a great dispenser for them.

just don't ask for a pic of my desk.....

I have a junk chest of drawers, in fact I have another junk chest of drawers for garage junk out in the garage too. It's not really junk, it's more like tools and repair type things. Things that you have to have and use all the time too.

deeinohio

I think to be labeled a TRUE junk drawer, one has to push down on the contents to open or close.

Dee, now that I removed the plastic bags I don't have to push down to close the drawer. So is it still a junk drawer? Yes, yes it is!

I have these for plastic bag storage. One in the kitchen in the recycling area and another in the broom closet. So cheap and perfect for storing them in.Bag storage

Arkansasgirl - those are "utility drawers". :) That's what I have. Right.

Three junk drawers in the kitchen hutch. One for me, one for dh, and this one in-between the two.

Oh puhleeze, those are not junk drawers! lol. They're too pretty and organized with similar items. Nuh uh, doesn't qualify. :)

Sue, I did the same thing a few years ago with pens. I had large holder full of pens and I swear, every time I needed one in a hurry, the ink was dried up. One day I tested every single pen, pencil and marker, and it sure made a difference.

This is one in the kitchen. I admit it was recently cleaned out and reorganized. There is one in the utility room that DH keeps nice and junky. I cleared it out, and now I can hardly open it because he keeps throwing junk in it every time he walks by. Stuff we ‘can’t live without’, ya know!

I no longer have one since we moved. DH however has a junk pile and a junk basket that have grown out of control.

When we were moving, years ago, to our last house, we dumped the contents of our junk drawer into a bag and promptly christianed a new drawer in the new home. I vowed never to do that again and when I bought my own house, I ditched the junk drawer.

When we redid our kitchen a few years ago I designated, in the plans, a junk drawer and it wasn't allowed to be more than 16" wide and I have stuck to that. I check pens on a regular basis and I throw out finished tape holders. There are 4 tape holders in there though.

The one thing I took out was elastic bands and twist ties which I keep in a small ziplock bag and store in the tinfoil/saranwrap drawer. Scissors are now kept in the knife drawer, flashlights are with the used candles in case of a power outage (as opposed to the pretty candles for company).

d_gw - I have that same plastic bag holder and love it. I tried to find one recently for a girlfriend and couldn't find it.

Outside, now that is a bona fide junk drawer!

Good idea about putting twist ties in a baggie. I never thought of that before.

I repurpose metal candy tins to store rubber bands and twist ties. Have a decorative wooden box in the laundry room for plastic bags. We use them for scooping litter.

OK, here are 2 of the many I have. These are really official catch-all drawers. The others are actually dedicated to specifics and also smaller, like the antique sewing machine's drawer where I keep cat toys.

1 is at a computer desk and the other in a kitchen cart. Neither pull out all the way, so there is more in the back:

Our house doesn't really have very many drawers, besides dressers. Our tiny 50s kitchen only has 2 built-in drawers - can you imagine?

No true junk drawer in this house, although I had a lovely large one last home. I do have a plastic box in my Master Closet for all the small items that I can not figure out what to do with, some are just small things that make me smile and other pieces are items that do not fall into the category of anything else and not used often.Guess maybe it is a junk box, but my true junk drawer had a much wider variety of things.

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I see you have a swiffer wet jet too, don't you love it?!

You don't know how hard it was to not organize absolutely everything before it took that picture. I will be organizing that now.

All your junk drawers look good compared to my two. I currently have to smash things down to make the one close. When they get full I clean out and organize again and repeat the process. I can't stand paper clutter.

I don't have scissors in this drawer because I hang them on my pot rack. My pot rack looks a bit like a junk rack, but it holds things that I use frequently. It also helps keep my drawers neat.

Nice cmm. I organized my junk drawer after the pic as well. Pictures don't lie when they're not photo shopped. ;)

Lars my father hated scissors hanging anywhere. He knew of a childhood friend who reached up for them, fumbled and got herself right in the eye. She lost her sight in that eye. This is many years ago but has made me fearful of hanging sharp objects up around the the kitchen. Of course you're safe I'm sure but my brain goes there...

My scissors (Kitchenaid) have plastic protectors that go over the blades, which protect them from opening up and also cover the sharp points.