What weird thing would someone find in your junk drawer?

[bif]

I'm guessing everyone has a junk drawer in their house. Is there something strange you keep in yours?

[CrispyQ]

1. I inherited an old brass letter opener, with a heavy but cute mouse body & a bladed tail.

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

[3catwoman3]

2. How many of us have only one junk drawer?

I have at least 4.

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. Ant traps, I guess

But we have two junk drawers in the kitchen.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. A kidney stone

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]

5. My top dresser drawer has some small machine parts I programmed and ran

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]

6. an ice pick ...

... 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]

7. Not enough drawers...

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.

[cloudbase]

8. Tire valve caps with a Volvo logo on them.

I have no idea how they got there.

[Iggo]

9. An 18-inch braid of human hair from when I stopped being a longhair back in '05.

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

[2naSalit]

10. A bee hive.

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.

[Ziggysmom]

11. A baby tooth from a long past kitty named Ollie, in a little test tube.

[Midnight Writer]

12. A brass bottle opener in the shape of a well-built naked woman.

[Marthe48]

14. I have one of those

and keep it in my knife drawer, use it often

[Marthe48]

13. All I can call it is a shiv

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]

15. A Sink Wrench

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.

[Niagara]

16. Two prison shanks!

Oh my bad, they're only putty knives.

[Archae]

17. A ball of solid catnip.

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

[Clouds Passing]

18. Shark teeth

I found in the desert wilderness. Ancient.