Condoms & Parking Tickets: Your Junk Drawer Secrets Exposed

What's In There?

• A condom
• A Tide Pen
• A Used Checkbook (no more checks)
• An Ashtray (I don’t smoke)
• A tin of Icebreakers Mints (I thought these were gum when I bought them)
• A birthday card from my dad (It plays the theme song from Friends when you open it)
• A pin from ComicCon that says “Anakin ’08”
• A Three-Hole Punch (WTF?)
• Tissues (Oh man, I totally needed these 3 weeks ago!)
• Miscellaneous Paperwork (bank statements, parking tickets, bills)

mswen's junk drawer

[Disclaimer: I have a house.  Which apparently triples the size of a junk drawer and means lots of tools and hardware.]

• Masking tape
• Unopened packs of gum
• Mysterious keys
• Twisty ties
• A packet of seeds
• Hilighter pen
• Every type of glue imaginable: Krazy glue, wood glue, Elmer’s glue…
• Elastic bands
• About 3 screwdrivers
• A Ziploc bag full of random screws and nails
• Pictures of our house when it was gutted
• Sidewalk chalk

Steve's Junk Drawer

Cigar cutter
2 lighters
Various chargers from old cell phones
Twine
Unused airline ticket (Denver to L.A.)
Scottrade monthly statement
Twine
AA bateries for my wireless mouse
Schedule for Denver area AA meetings (2006)

The drawer from which there is no return...

Yes, I said it. My Junk drawer has gone beyond just junk. Nothing ever returns from here… nothing gets out…
I see an old cell phone. I paid good money for that.
A plastic skull keychain from a cereal box.
Some sort of bowl I tried to make in Pottery class 6 or 7 years ago.
Letters from the county jail.
An envelope full of pictures that are already on my computer.
Business cards from my husband’s failed business partnership.
Chainsaw lubricant…
5th grade elementary school yearbook.
Address stickers with my maiden name on them.
Fish flakes… my fish are dead

yet I keep these things… maybe to remind myself that I am a slob at heart.

mattfriedinNY's junk drawer

• Condoms
• Checkbooks
• 3 pairs of earbud headphones
• receipts
• business cards
• a remote control for my air conditioner
• old concert tickets
• a USB cord
• my soon-to-be expired passport
• old photographs

Coffee Slut's Drawer

Well, let’s see here:

old cigarettes
old birthday cards from my mother
old pairs of glasses that I can no longer see out of
old cameras
old pictures
keychains
tourist nick naks
my passport
old gum
staples

Basically things I need to throw away because their old, but I haven’t the heart. They all mean something to me. Gotta keep the passport though.

Chelsea's Junk Drawer

Here it goes:

• My Mother’s military ID card from 1985…..? Why, can anyone tell me why I have this?
• Domino’s pizza coupons
• Black nail polish. I’m a witch.
• Pencils with penis erasers and one with a Jesus eraser.
• Scissors
• Travel size deodorant
• Thank you cards
• Guitar shaped earrings
• Dice
• Dum-Dum lollipops
• Birth control
• Batteries
• A painted rock…….???? This is the strangest one by far.

Elijay's Desk Drawer Contents:

• Passport 
• Bright yellow ruler 
• Checkbooks for accounts I no longer have 
• Binder clips I stole from my last job  
• Magic Rub eraser  
• Scotch tape 
• 3-hole punch 
• A deck of World War II playing cards

ethwiny's junk drawer

 I spend more time at work than at home so my junk drawer is in my office desk.

• toothbrush/toothpaste/floss
• a box of plastic forks (the secret is out and people keep taking them from me!)
• my old notary stamp
• an almost used up deodorant (in case I forget to apply at home)
• an empty ‘after sandwich’ mint tin from Subway
• a notepad shaped like a W
• an IMBD printout of memorable quotes from Dirty Dancing
• two VERY old sticks of gum and a fireball
• the recipe for a strawberry spinach salad I promised to give to my coworker 6 months ago
• a picture of the cover of my sissy’s(Megan Hart) book, Dirty
• a chi hair iron
• tour books for the UK

aliciak's junk drawer

• quote book
• maraca (yeah, just one) 
• crayons and markers 
• an unused (I think) urine cup, in which my doctor uncle put my Xmas $$ in 
• the little book where I write down EVERY SINGLE BOOK I’ve ever read. In pencil. Neatly. With stars by the ones I like. And a date every 10 books or so. And lists in the back of authors whose work I’ve read a lot of, and the actual books I’ve read. Shut up.
• Mitch Hedberg cd 
• camera lens
• Elmer’s glue 
• broken flashlight
• Kermit pez container 
• small part of my AWESOME rock collection 
• circular stickers for doctoring up my expired museum educator badge 
• deck of cards 
• my Little Prince address book (yeah I still use it…totally disorganized) 
• Safety Cone’s briefcase 
• 2 Ernie pez containers 
• piece of fabric from top of jam jar