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April 13, 2006

show and tell: junk drawer

Aaaahhh. The junk drawer. My philosophy for keeping my house somewhat tidy in the midst of four trinket loving, junk collecting kids is to stuff everything in to closets and drawers. As such i have three junk closets; one for art supplies, cleaning stuff and various sundries including 80 empty bottles leftover from our only attempt at home brew wine, then we have the way too many toys closet and, lastly, the closet full of shoes, coats, muddy buddies, snow suits, hats and mitts.

I have one real junk drawer, but one could argue that every drawer around here is a junk drawer.

junk drawer


Clockwise from 12:00 there is felt pads for chair legs, nightlight bulb, a toolset, emergency blanket for the kids earthquake kits at school, cover for the ear thermometer, "nonuttin" granola bar, penny wrappers, salbutamol for the nebulizer, batteries and screwdriver, pulmicort for the nebulizer, instruction manual for my camera, magnet sticker things, shane's back brace and water paints.

I'm sure there is much more under that top layer. But it's really just a mix of various things that i don't have anywhere else to put.


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Posted by Jess at 12:16 PM Permalink

Comments (8)

It IS amazing to me that across the world these drawers are all the same...

I have a friend who insists that the perfect house would have six bedrooms -- one for each member of the family plus a second one for each person's junk.

I am beginning to agree.

So I see we clean house alike-thank goodness for lots of closet space-

You have a very nice junk drawer too.

Wow. That's quite a wide range of things you have in there.

Ah, Pulmicort. Our 5-year-old is on it.

Hubby calls it "Pull Micortney." Complete with British accent.

We have almost no closet or drawer space in our house, so we have assorted "junk piles" everywhere. And junk plastic bins. Gaaaa! Makes me crazy.

One of the best things about my house is that it has the best junk drawer space ever! Have a happy Easter with your family Jess!

Am I to limit it to a drawer? Not an entire room? No WONDER people won't come visit me anymore. Time to clean.

Oh, honey, was that you that commented about BlogHer recently? Are you going? I'm far too nutty today to sort through my brain files.

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