What's In Your Junk Drawer?

My favorite part about redecorating and renovating is that everything gets cleaned up and cleaned out. While cleaning out the kitchen drawers, I inevitably came to the drawer every kitchen has: the junk drawer. I actually have three junk drawers (scary) but two of them are used nearly every day and so are cleaned out on a regular basis. But the third? Rarely used, it contained some very interesting items, which can be organized into three categories:

Stuff I don't use but can't seem to throw away:

• 10 refrigerator magnets
• 3 old cell phones
• 1 electric hair trimmer
• 1 film camera
• 6 undeveloped rolls of film (does anyone even develop film anymore?)
• 3 unused rolls of film

Stuff I thought was lost forever and has already been replaced:

• 1 staple gun
• 1 stud finder
• 3 wine bottle openers
• 1 jeweler's screwdriver kit
• 1 paint can opener
• 1 stapler
• 1 vacuum cleaner belt

Stuff that's garbage--why was it put in there in the first place?

• 1 2005 calendar
• 1 2006 calendar
• 3 school permission forms, circa 2006
• 12 holiday cards, 2005-2008
• 4 owner's manuals to things we no longer own

The chances that all this stuff, which is currently placed in neat little piles on the living room floor, will end up back in the same drawer are approximately 98.3 percent.