How About a Junk Drawer Thread

tclu1308 · 10-09-2009, 12:15 PM

Well I'm getting rained out from work for the 3rd day this week and I'm bored outta my gourd, so I decided (about an hour ago) to clean out my junk drawer. Wow. This is almost like Christmas! I think junk drawers need to be discussed here on G&G. I just know all you guys and gals have one, so what's all in yours? If I listed the entire contents of mine it would be the longest post ever, so I'll start with the top ten things I found that I didn't even know were in there.

1. 3 inch sheath knife my grandfather gave me when I was a kid. bone handled, still purty dang sharp!
2. A brand new spark plug for my four wheeler, that I sold 5 years ago
3. A really cool pair of aviator sunglasses that I last wore to a mustache/ninja party
4. The 11/16 wrench that has been missing from my set for at least a year (I assumed it was gone forever).
5. An arrowhead I found when I was in junior high.
6. 8 Gumby Club cards! (If I can find 2 more I can get a free pizza or pokey stix!)
7. A bag of those gold foil covered chocolate coins.
8. A snakebite kit.
9. Full box of CCI Stingers.
10. 11 beer tickets from my hometown's annual reunion, wrapped around 7 tickets that I won playing ski-ball.

This is the coolest rain day ever! I think I'm gonna start up a pot of my world famous white chicken chilli and maybe even drink a Sam Adams.

BTW, I am only working on my primary junk drawer for now. I will probably save my secondary back up junk drawer for another day. haha

SwedeSteve · 10-09-2009, 12:55 PM

Pretty amusing what you can find !!

ArkansasHunter · 10-09-2009, 01:45 PM

I gotta a junk drawer in the kitchen. It is running over with lots of keepable junk.

When I don't have a place to put something I wanna keep it goes in my junk drawer.

My Junk drawer is very personal because it' s my junk and know one else's.

No one has any bizzness go'in through my junk drawer because it's my junk.

My junk hardly ever gets used, though sometimes I look through it to see whats in it, in case there is something I can use.

My Junk drawer is crooked and you have to pick up on it so it will open.

My junk drawer contains some personal items like old hunting liscens, bill folds, several pocket knives, parts to Mag light flash lights, one shotgun plug, several watches I've broke or they broke, a ground fault wall receptical I could'nt figger out how to install.
One phillips head screw driver with the end burned half off from trien to install the ground fault receptical.
Another screw driver with the bits in the handle...A whole bunch of worn out calculators that I used on my route...They have centimentel value.
Odd and not so odd screws, nuts and bolts. It even has one of the legs off our sofa in my junk drawer. A green oval rubber coin purse that you squeeze and it opens up.
Plus much much more stuff.
OH I found a perfectly round flat rock so it's in my junk drawer..I drue a happy face on it...A.H

tclu1308 · 10-09-2009, 02:25 PM

Hey A.H, somehow I figured this post would draw your attention. Sounds like you have things under control with the junk drawer. I don't have any rocks with smiley faces but that is a nice touch. I do however, have some bottle rockets in my junk drawer, and a few M-80s, and a string of blackcats.

After cleaning this thing out, I put the box of stingers in an ammo can w/ the rest of my .22 ammo. Now I feel somewhat safer in case the junk drawer ever catches fire.

SwedeSteve, I just sense that you have an incredibly awesome junk drawer. Come on, out with it. Tell us all the goodies!

SwedeSteve · 10-09-2009, 02:46 PM

QK. I just had to go down and take a peek. Some items I found:

A solar powered calculator that wo'nt work LOL
A box cutter
A little tub of carmex
2 pocket knives
A one hole punch
A used roll of 35mm film
A broken pair of scissors
A watch
A tobacco pouch and pipe
A small tin of dry flies I found at the lake
A really old looking tootsie pop (It was really old)
A dried up glue stick
string
paperclips
8 Chucky Cheese tokens
A basketball needle for my pump !!
A small bag of fishing sinkers
And a whole lot of other valuable stuff !!

gunnut2u · 10-09-2009, 02:54 PM

Maybe instead of a garage sale , everyone could have a junk drawer sale !!LOL wouldn't that be interesting?

Dragunov · 10-09-2009, 03:07 PM

You've inspired me to go through one of my junk drawers.

Lets see......

Duct tape
Nails
A small bag of undeveloped film
Small, pocket sized tape recorder/tapes (still works)
a 20cc bottle of banamine, I used to work on a ranch. (tossed it)
A bottle of ground glass mixed with cayanne pepper(black egg mixture)
Box of tic-tacs
Sweet-tarts/old (ate them anyway)
Steel handled ice pick
Guitar pick (Jim Dunlop)
Fat strat guitar pickup
$5 bill! (BONUS!)

Misc. change
Empty 7.62X39 steel casings
Ball of real sinew string that I made
Dental floss
Roll of artificial sinew string.
Dust bunnies and a band aid.

That's about it.

Uhhhh..... Are we all really this bored??

tclu1308 · 10-09-2009, 03:09 PM

SwedeSteve I will trade you 5 of my chocolate coins and 2 new carpenter pencils for that basketball needle! The chocolate coins don't expire until October of 2011, and the pencils are brand new unsharpened!

ArkansasHunter · 10-09-2009, 03:21 PM

I have a small tape measure in mine I forgot to mention LOL

tclu1308 · 10-09-2009, 03:24 PM

Dragunov, this is a lighthearted junk drawer thread. Yes, we are bored. I also happened to notice you suggested you have more than one junk drawer. By all means man, go through it!

Few things have brought me as much happiness on a rain day as going through my junk drawers. Just a bit ago I found a deck of cards with Spiderman pictures on the back and also a golf pencil with at least ten feet of duct tape wrapped around it!

Cyrano · 10-09-2009, 04:12 PM

I don't have a junk drawer. I have two junk attics and a 14x26 junk shed that I really need to go through, considering I can't get into any of them!

Trouble is, what I think of as "junk" Her Imperial Majesty thinks of as "treasure," and vice versa. This makes it hard to get rid of anything that's not positively broken.

Dragunov · 10-09-2009, 04:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyrano

I don't have a junk drawer. I have two junk attics and a 14x26 junk shed that I really need to go through, considering I can't get into any of them!

Trouble is, what I think of as "junk" Her Imperial Majesty thinks of as "treasure," and vice versa. This makes it hard to get rid of anything that's not positively broken.

I feel your pain! My wife has stuff from 25yrs ago in storage that I keep threatening to get rid of (I won't though for the fear of being neutered!).
She keeps saying she'll go through it. (Right!)

I'm afraid to go through my other junk drawers out of the fear I'll lose a finger or something. Lots of sharp stuff and hard telling whats growing or on the loose in it.

thrillbilly · 10-09-2009, 04:45 PM

Hmmm, I have several junk drawers...
Kitchen-
3 loose band-aids
numerous candles in various stages of use
about 10,000 matches (mostly still in the boxes thankfully)
2 phillips and 3 regular screwdrivers
Replacement bulbs for Mini-Mag (I've been looking for those!)
10 AAA, 5 D, about a gazillion AA, and one 9 volt battery
Empty? can of zippo fluid
pack of camels with one left (? no idea how that got there)
4 Bics...2 almost empty (but still "good" so they stay lol)
A head of a old hammer I found in the yard (I'll get a handle on it someday)
One schrade pocket knife (one blade broken, other one DULL)
About 10 loose .22LRs (I have those things EVERYWHERE!)
1 empty 12G hull (?)
A .30 caliber cleaning brush
Assorted condiment packs from McDs and pizza place
A old (2003) Cabelas catolog
A pack of BBs (I aint had a BB gun in like 5 years!)

Have to go to work now...I'll check my bedroom junk drawer later LOL

CalifgirlinOk · 10-09-2009, 06:53 PM

I cleaned my junk drawer out about 4 months ago and it's pretty neat.But give me time and it will look like a tornado hit it again.

3 tape measures
shoe polish
masking tape
dog brush
dog comb
dog nail clippers
sewing threads and needle
velcro
cat nip for Rudy
keys that I don't have any ideal what they go to
buttons
black felt pin
a pack of flower seeds

billy · 10-09-2009, 07:11 PM

change
police scanner
a buncha electric cords that go to who knows what
empty cases
stray bullets
pocket knives
bong
string
targets
old hard drives
lots of papers
loose tobacco
dirty books
hot sauce
camera
nails
gun leather
calculator
bug juice

billy · 10-09-2009, 07:15 PM

i havent smoked pot in at least a decade.
but i might want that bong sometime!?!

larmus · 10-09-2009, 07:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CalifgirlinOk

I cleaned my junk drawer out about 4 months ago and it's pretty neat.But give me time and it will look like a tornado hit it again.

3 tape measures
shoe polish
masking tape
dog brush
dog comb
dog nail clippers
sewing threads and needle
velcro
cat nip for Rudy
keys that I don't have any ideal what they go to
buttons
black felt pin
a pack of flower seeds

Thats where my tape measure went, CGO snuck over to AZ and snagged it... LMAO!!!!

Tigercat200 · 10-09-2009, 09:34 PM

I'm scared to look in my junk drawer.

skiking · 10-09-2009, 11:19 PM

I looked in my junk drawer, and this is what I found:

2 claw hammers
1 tape measure
1 calculator
25 pens
3 needles
1 spool of thread
2 4mm hex keys
1 torx driver
4 lighters
1 pocket knife
1 paper clip
1 bar ski wax
1 button to my favorite shirt that I haven't gotten around to sewing back of for a few years
1 sock
a handful of screws
3 dead AA batteries
1 dog biscuit
an empty pack of gum
4 Ideal-Mark markers (stolen from my last job)
1 floppy disc (don't have a computer that has a 3 1/2" drive)
stray bullets to guns I have never owned
Empty brass to guns I have never owned
2 birthday candles
a few loose M&Ms that were still good
And the best of all
$20 bill

ALR · 10-09-2009, 11:30 PM

A junk drawer? Wow I ran out of drawers years ago, Ive got CARGO! LOL!

10-09-2009, 12:15 PM	#1
tclu1308 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Champaign IL Posts: 459	How About a Junk Drawer Thread Well I'm getting rained out from work for the 3rd day this week and I'm bored outta my gourd, so I decided (about an hour ago) to clean out my junk drawer. Wow. This is almost like Christmas! I think junk drawers need to be discussed here on G&G. I just know all you guys and gals have one, so what's all in yours? If I listed the entire contents of mine it would be the longest post ever, so I'll start with the top ten things I found that I didn't even know were in there. 1. 3 inch sheath knife my grandfather gave me when I was a kid. bone handled, still purty dang sharp! 2. A brand new spark plug for my four wheeler, that I sold 5 years ago 3. A really cool pair of aviator sunglasses that I last wore to a mustache/ninja party 4. The 11/16 wrench that has been missing from my set for at least a year (I assumed it was gone forever). 5. An arrowhead I found when I was in junior high. 6. 8 Gumby Club cards! (If I can find 2 more I can get a free pizza or pokey stix!) 7. A bag of those gold foil covered chocolate coins. 8. A snakebite kit. 9. Full box of CCI Stingers. 10. 11 beer tickets from my hometown's annual reunion, wrapped around 7 tickets that I won playing ski-ball. This is the coolest rain day ever! I think I'm gonna start up a pot of my world famous white chicken chilli and maybe even drink a Sam Adams. BTW, I am only working on my primary junk drawer for now. I will probably save my secondary back up junk drawer for another day. haha __________________ If anybody asks I spent it on golf balls.

10-09-2009, 12:55 PM	#2
SwedeSteve Suspected Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Anchortown, Alaska Posts: 25,529	Pretty amusing what you can find !! __________________ In the absence of orders, ATTACK !!

10-09-2009, 01:45 PM	#3
ArkansasHunter Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Arkansas. Posts: 18,224	I gotta a junk drawer in the kitchen. It is running over with lots of keepable junk. When I don't have a place to put something I wanna keep it goes in my junk drawer. My Junk drawer is very personal because it' s my junk and know one else's. No one has any bizzness go'in through my junk drawer because it's my junk. My junk hardly ever gets used, though sometimes I look through it to see whats in it, in case there is something I can use. My Junk drawer is crooked and you have to pick up on it so it will open. My junk drawer contains some personal items like old hunting liscens, bill folds, several pocket knives, parts to Mag light flash lights, one shotgun plug, several watches I've broke or they broke, a ground fault wall receptical I could'nt figger out how to install. One phillips head screw driver with the end burned half off from trien to install the ground fault receptical. Another screw driver with the bits in the handle...A whole bunch of worn out calculators that I used on my route...They have centimentel value. Odd and not so odd screws, nuts and bolts. It even has one of the legs off our sofa in my junk drawer. A green oval rubber coin purse that you squeeze and it opens up. Plus much much more stuff. OH I found a perfectly round flat rock so it's in my junk drawer..I drue a happy face on it...A.H __________________ IN GOD WE TRUST NRA MEMBER

10-09-2009, 02:25 PM	#4
tclu1308 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Champaign IL Posts: 459	Hey A.H, somehow I figured this post would draw your attention. Sounds like you have things under control with the junk drawer. I don't have any rocks with smiley faces but that is a nice touch. I do however, have some bottle rockets in my junk drawer, and a few M-80s, and a string of blackcats. After cleaning this thing out, I put the box of stingers in an ammo can w/ the rest of my .22 ammo. Now I feel somewhat safer in case the junk drawer ever catches fire. SwedeSteve, I just sense that you have an incredibly awesome junk drawer. Come on, out with it. Tell us all the goodies! __________________ If anybody asks I spent it on golf balls.

10-09-2009, 02:46 PM	#5
SwedeSteve Suspected Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Anchortown, Alaska Posts: 25,529	QK. I just had to go down and take a peek. Some items I found: A solar powered calculator that wo'nt work LOL A box cutter A little tub of carmex 2 pocket knives A one hole punch A used roll of 35mm film A broken pair of scissors A watch A tobacco pouch and pipe A small tin of dry flies I found at the lake A really old looking tootsie pop (It was really old) A dried up glue stick string paperclips 8 Chucky Cheese tokens A basketball needle for my pump !! A small bag of fishing sinkers And a whole lot of other valuable stuff !! __________________ In the absence of orders, ATTACK !!

10-09-2009, 02:54 PM	#6
gunnut2u Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Missouri-firearms,USA Posts: 1,581	Maybe instead of a garage sale , everyone could have a junk drawer sale !!LOL wouldn't that be interesting? __________________ I might not be playing with a full deck... But I am playing with a full clip!!! (gunnut2u)

10-09-2009, 03:07 PM	#7
Dragunov Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Peoples Repooblik of Kaliforniastan. Posts: 1,017	You've inspired me to go through one of my junk drawers. Lets see...... Duct tape Nails A small bag of undeveloped film Small, pocket sized tape recorder/tapes (still works) a 20cc bottle of banamine, I used to work on a ranch. (tossed it) A bottle of ground glass mixed with cayanne pepper(black egg mixture) Box of tic-tacs Sweet-tarts/old (ate them anyway) Steel handled ice pick Guitar pick (Jim Dunlop) Fat strat guitar pickup $5 bill! (BONUS!) Misc. change Empty 7.62X39 steel casings Ball of real sinew string that I made Dental floss Roll of artificial sinew string. Dust bunnies and a band aid. That's about it. Uhhhh..... Are we all really this bored?? Last edited by Dragunov; 10-09-2009 at 03:10 PM.

10-09-2009, 03:09 PM	#8
tclu1308 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Champaign IL Posts: 459	SwedeSteve I will trade you 5 of my chocolate coins and 2 new carpenter pencils for that basketball needle! The chocolate coins don't expire until October of 2011, and the pencils are brand new unsharpened! __________________ If anybody asks I spent it on golf balls.

10-09-2009, 03:21 PM	#9
ArkansasHunter Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Arkansas. Posts: 18,224	I have a small tape measure in mine I forgot to mention LOL __________________ IN GOD WE TRUST NRA MEMBER

10-09-2009, 03:24 PM	#10
tclu1308 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Champaign IL Posts: 459	Dragunov, this is a lighthearted junk drawer thread. Yes, we are bored. I also happened to notice you suggested you have more than one junk drawer. By all means man, go through it! Few things have brought me as much happiness on a rain day as going through my junk drawers. Just a bit ago I found a deck of cards with Spiderman pictures on the back and also a golf pencil with at least ten feet of duct tape wrapped around it! __________________ If anybody asks I spent it on golf balls.

10-09-2009, 04:12 PM	#11
Cyrano Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New York Posts: 7,813	I don't have a junk drawer. I have two junk attics and a 14x26 junk shed that I really need to go through, considering I can't get into any of them! Trouble is, what I think of as "junk" Her Imperial Majesty thinks of as "treasure," and vice versa. This makes it hard to get rid of anything that's not positively broken.

10-09-2009, 04:45 PM	#13
thrillbilly Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Ozark Hill Country Posts: 3,182	Hmmm, I have several junk drawers... Kitchen- 3 loose band-aids numerous candles in various stages of use about 10,000 matches (mostly still in the boxes thankfully) 2 phillips and 3 regular screwdrivers Replacement bulbs for Mini-Mag (I've been looking for those!) 10 AAA, 5 D, about a gazillion AA, and one 9 volt battery Empty? can of zippo fluid pack of camels with one left (? no idea how that got there) 4 Bics...2 almost empty (but still "good" so they stay lol) A head of a old hammer I found in the yard (I'll get a handle on it someday) One schrade pocket knife (one blade broken, other one DULL) About 10 loose .22LRs (I have those things EVERYWHERE!) 1 empty 12G hull (?) A .30 caliber cleaning brush Assorted condiment packs from McDs and pizza place A old (2003) Cabelas catolog A pack of BBs (I aint had a BB gun in like 5 years!) Have to go to work now...I'll check my bedroom junk drawer later LOL __________________ *" I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on."* John Wayne

10-09-2009, 06:53 PM	#14
CalifgirlinOk Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 8,547	I cleaned my junk drawer out about 4 months ago and it's pretty neat.But give me time and it will look like a tornado hit it again. 3 tape measures shoe polish masking tape dog brush dog comb dog nail clippers sewing threads and needle velcro cat nip for Rudy keys that I don't have any ideal what they go to buttons black felt pin a pack of flower seeds __________________ I got into a fist fight with breast cancer and I won.

10-09-2009, 07:11 PM	#15
billy Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: a secret lab on the shores of lake titicaca Posts: 20,410 Blog Entries: 161	change police scanner a buncha electric cords that go to who knows what empty cases stray bullets pocket knives bong string targets old hard drives lots of papers loose tobacco dirty books hot sauce camera nails gun leather calculator bug juice __________________ ANGRY SMART AND SOBER Last edited by billy; 10-09-2009 at 07:14 PM.

10-09-2009, 07:15 PM	#16
billy Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: a secret lab on the shores of lake titicaca Posts: 20,410 Blog Entries: 161	i havent smoked pot in at least a decade. but i might want that bong sometime!?! __________________ ANGRY SMART AND SOBER

10-09-2009, 09:34 PM	#18
Tigercat200 Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Middle of the USA Posts: 545	I'm scared to look in my junk drawer. __________________ Bob Beware the fury of a patient man......John Dryden

10-09-2009, 11:19 PM	#19
skiking Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Stumptown, MT Posts: 443	I looked in my junk drawer, and this is what I found: 2 claw hammers 1 tape measure 1 calculator 25 pens 3 needles 1 spool of thread 2 4mm hex keys 1 torx driver 4 lighters 1 pocket knife 1 paper clip 1 bar ski wax 1 button to my favorite shirt that I haven't gotten around to sewing back of for a few years 1 sock a handful of screws 3 dead AA batteries 1 dog biscuit an empty pack of gum 4 Ideal-Mark markers (stolen from my last job) 1 floppy disc (don't have a computer that has a 3 1/2" drive) stray bullets to guns I have never owned Empty brass to guns I have never owned 2 birthday candles a few loose M&Ms that were still good And the best of all $20 bill

10-09-2009, 11:30 PM	#20
ALR STAIN'ALIVE,STAIN'ALIVE! Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: By the shore of Gitchee Gumee, By the Shining Big-Sea-Water Posts: 1,096	A junk drawer? Wow I ran out of drawers years ago, Ive got CARGO! LOL! __________________ AGENT ORANGE The last ghost of Vietnam ATF- Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, who is bringing the chips?