We have a junk drawer, but truth be told it’s not all that junky. We just call it that because there’s no better name for that type of drawer.
It’s where keys, wallets, sunglasses, etc. live, and it’s in a convenient corner of the kitchen to grab stuff on the way out and drop it off on the way in.
And lots of other body parts, sadly. 
Is is still called a junk drawer if it is neatly organized?
I voted that I do not have one, but I do have a drawer with pens, paper clips, batteries, etc. in their own little compartments.
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According to an unimpeachable source (Bon Appetit), no, once you organize it like that it has to be renamed. They suggest “the drawer of things not used very often”, but I think simply “the old junk drawer” is easier to use in casual conversation.
I can either have a junk drawer or I can have a wife. Both can not exist in the same universe. At least not my wife. We do have an organized miscellaneous drawer.
I have most of the items on this list, but they are split into several different drawers, and some live in jars. Like, we have a jar on the kitchen counter for rubber bands and twisties.
But the paperclips live with the checkbook and stamps.
Paperclips are in a drawer in my desk, along with other office supplies.
The checkbook is in a drawer in my husband’s desk, which has a collection of mechanical drawing tools. The checkbook is there because that drawer is above the hanging folders with bank papers, etc.
Stamps are in a drawer in a sideboard, along with cards and other stationery-related items.
So each drawer has a purpose, but they are probably arranged differently than other households.
We don’t keep rubber bands and twisties. We have string for anything rubber bands might be useful for, and string doesn’t turn into goo, like old rubber bands do. We got tired of cleaning up old rubber bands.
Junk drawer here was stationed near the former landline it has pads of paper, fat black markers, paper clips, rubber bands, ribbons as cat toys, old business cards (throwing out today😒) scissors, blank greeting cards, old address book ( dead folks😏) phone cases (why?) Xmas light fuses, erasers, what’s this, a waterbed part! Jeez oh Pete. I’m done here! Gotta go will sort it out uh later that’s the ticket!
OK I voted that I do have a junk drawer but it is neatly organized.
I too have grown tired of gumbands.
I now buy different sizes of hair bands which act much better.
I possibly should have voted “other”; but I have one drawer I think of as the junk drawer, and a lot of other drawers and to some extent entire rooms that might qualify. The other drawers are at least somewhat better organized, however.
Many of the things on that list are kept in other drawers – a lot of them are in one of several desk drawers in a couple of different rooms. The junk drawer also contains a batch of things not on the list, such as electrical tape (I don’t think that’s what was meant by “sticky tape”, which is in the office desk and also usually in a couple of field boxes for sealing seed packets back up in the field, and if that includes packing tape also in the packing shed for packing garlic braids to mail), parts for Felco shears, miscellaneous small plumbing parts, stick on labels for food packages etc., and I’m sure some things I’m forgetting; in addition to the non-Ikea tools and screws/nails and rubber bands which were on the list.
All the rest of that stuff on the list is in the house. Just not in that particular junk drawer – or at least I don’t think so, though it might be. A lot of it is in more than one place in the house and/or barns and/or vehicles; as, come to think of it, is pretty much everything in the junk drawer.
I get rubberbands with the newspaper and some groceries. So they’re free. They work for a lot of things.
Our junk drawers (we have 2) also include electric tea lights for our Christmas luminaries, butane candle lighters for our regular candles, doggy clean-up bags, manuals for various appliances, a box of thumbtacks for our bulletin board, plastic utensils, and plastic drinking straws (contraband!)
I keep electrical tape in my well-organized “big” desk drawer, because when we take expired batteries to the hazardous waste collection center, they require batteries to have their terminals covered with electrical tape. I’ts just handier.
I have a couple of junk drawers. One in the kitchen for food related stuff, and another one for desk type stuff.
The kitchen one has toothpicks, gum, candy, gravy mix packets, readers, labels, and a wrench.
There should be a jar opener but it’s disappeared. The wrench if for opening soda bottles.
The other one is where pens go to die, and stamps hide.
IMO, junk drawers are where you put stuff that you can’t figure out where it should go. If you would put something not like anything else in the drawer, it’s the junk drawer.
Someone on Facebook asked what should go in the drawer and I said
Takeout menus, toothpicks, 3 cough drops of unknown age, pens (mostly not working) a couple of straws in stained wrappers, packets of condiments, again of unknown age, but at least one soy sauce packet is dried out
Just because we only have so many kitchen drawers, the takeout menus share a drawer with the yard tools i use just outside the back door. A wrench for the sticky water tap, gloves, clippers, the caps that go on the irrigation system in the winter, the one phone book that survived the purge…
I don’t think that’s a “junk drawer”, though, because I’d never put a random item there. It’s pretty much gardening and paper reference to be used in the kitchen.
Our Xmas tree can switch from white lights to colored ones at the push of a button. That suits us nicely.
I prefer colored lights. But I bought my pre-lit artificial tree at an after Christmas clearance sale, and white lights were all they had. So that’s what I have.
“Are you satisfied with the condition of your teeth”? Not sure I have a right to answer that. I have teeth, but they are all implants. I can eat, but the artificial teeth have a strange feel, as if there were a ⅛-inch thick piece of rubber between the implants and my jawbone. I was told that all my natural teeth were likely to have to go eventually, so why not do them all at once? In retrospect, this was a bad call. Some of my real teeth were not giving me any trouble. If I had kept them longer, I think my chew profile would be more like it should be. I recommend not letting yourself being talked into the radical treatment. Not a panacea.
I have a string of tree lights that are puffs of fiber optic threads. All white.
If I were to put up a tree, that would be why