The drawer of random crap

[foxyknoxy30]

I seem to have this drawer in my kitchen that's full of random stuff that I can't find anywhere to otherwise put it.Included are suction stickers ,old sunglasses and various rolls of patterned sellotape! Do you have an equivalent and please describe contents .

We have a special drawer in the kitchen; in fact when we did up our kitchen I insisted on having a "bits " drawer.
I have several plastic boxes in there, containing string, blue tac and cellotape in one (things for joining stuff together!), one with spare keys in (mostly labeled) one with batteries of various sizes. There's a mini tool kit, keys to the shed and the radiator key (loose) plus some other random crap that I can't remember without looking.
It sounds quite tidy but really it's not!

Kitchen drawer. It contains the tea towels, blutac, screwdrivers, matches, spare bulbs for the Christmas tree lights, freezer bags, hand warmers that need reactivating, napkin rings. It’s insane.

I have a drawer of useful random crap in kitchen.

A pure bred Drawer of Crap with 3D glasses, Xmas lights for long gone lights and exotic batteries we cannot use.

And I also have a hidden cupboard we call the Room of Requirement which contains WW1 memorabilia, a life sized Facehugger (Alien), a telescope and a pop up tent along with loads of stuff ‘that has to be kept in case of disaster’

We “go big or go home” in this house with Drawers of crap.

Various drawers in rooms but in the study one you'll find
odd bits of about 10 different currencies some of which I can't even identify which country.

A bazillion usb wires for various devices - some I'm not sure what they're from

Chargers - not sure what some of them are for anymore

Old spare mobile phones

Assorted cracker gifts including mini screwdrivers, golf tees, nail clippers

Old spare passport photos

All the loyalty cards that never get used

Cheque books (most never used)

Multiple card readers for same bank

Spare batteries including various sizes of button batteries that I don't think fit anything we own

Here it is!

Yep; it's known as the Shit Drawer here!

It's full of assorted crap (some is useful, just nowhere else for it to live)!

It includes secateurs x2, various keys that I not sure what they belong to any more, approx 1 bazillion batteries, bike pump, earphone rubbery bits, teeny hip flask that dd2 occasionally likes to drink water from. Ummm, blutack, sellotape - rolls and rolls and rolls of the stuff, duct tape, some sort of carpet tape.

Probably more crap in there but cba to shift and look.

Bragging here!
I have 1 drawer of doom, DH has an entire antique roll top desk (that no longer 'rolls') full of so-called 'it'll come in useful' crap, none of which has done so in the last 20 years or so.
When his stuff migrates away from his cubbyhole 'office' that he can't get in to because it's full of crap I simply bin it and feign innocent ignorance for as long as necessary.

Known as file 13 in my house. It contains all manner of random objects such as odd batteries, lightbulb, pot towels, kitchen utensils, torches, matches, old letters, receipts, prescription meds, old phones. All that type of stuff. If anyone can't find or needs anything we always ask, have you looked in file 13?
Another smaller drawer is full of sweets and chocolates....for the grandkids you understand, ahem.

Several drawers and several small boxes full of this crap! All terribly useful but not frequently needed.

I actually used something from my drawer of crap!

A 13amp fuse, from the packet bought years ago when the heater stopped working.

I was most annoyed when I threw all the random cables out and then needed a new cable that goes from the phoneline into the back of the modem.

I went into my plastic box of meds yesterday and found co-codomol 2 years out of date, time to clean that one out.

I used cocodamol that was 2 years out of date, when desperately in pain. It worked.

I've just found the left handed cheque book that arrived just before cheques became obsolete.

FrauBlucher
The pills in the purple box are to be taken in the event of a catastrophe in the nuclear power plant 40km away (every householder in the radius gets a pack)

What the fuck? What are they? Some sort of iodine to prevent radioactive uptake to your thyroid gland? Or a good old fashioned cyanide capsule?
I used to live within the vague radius of two nuclear power stations and we never got sent suicide pills 😆
I now live near a large chemical plant and they send me a calendar every year to tell me what to do if their emergency siren goes off. So far, it has never happened...

Yeah, it’s called my house.

It's not fair! I want nuclear apocalypse pills too!!

I don't have a messy drawer ... Because we've not long moved house and I threw away everything. I do now have several sets of IKEA kallax storage which I intend to repurpose as EyUp's krappax storage.

The messy drawer in our old house was glorious though, it was previously my parents, all kind of shit. Ministerial collars, actual dog collars, de-worming tablets, krill? Twill?... Budgie seed, daffodil bulbs, pre-icer sample, religious artefacts and once, a bloke called Bill who'd been cremated and wasn't due for being scattered till it thawed. He stayed for ages. Lovely fella, very quiet.

Everyone has one

I have so many of these “drawers” in my house. Decided today to spring clean and have one bin bag full of rubbish and another full of charity stuff items....one room!!! I dread moving on!

I am the absolute Queen of hideous drawers!
I am currently spending every spare moment making my own custom drawer dividers in the hope that this will curb my bad habits.

I am having shedloads of fun with the spray paint as well which I am thinking will aid The Husband's memory of where shit actually is in the kitchen.

A couple of weeks ago I cleaned and decluttered the kitchen. I got rid of any crockery/glasses that were chipped, organised the random corner thing with 3 shelves into a spice rack using glass Douwe Egberts coffee jars, completely cleared the noticeboard and fridge and rearranged and cleaned the cutlery and utensils out. However when I looked into the void that contained an intact but ancient Berrocca tube, a scratched CD (disc 2 of Sainsbury's soul classics), a few safety pins stuck down by that, several dead batteries, a God awful Seksy sekonda watch, menus for takeaways that no longer exist, a clipper lighter missing the flint, a Nintendo ds stylus, a nitcomb, some improperly unrolled tin foil, some dried up Calpol (minus the spoons or syringes ) a set of keys from doors not in my house, lone sachets of diarolyte, lemsip and kfc handwipe, expired sharpie, the attachment to a whisk we no longer have I said to myself "Don't be silly. This might come in useful one day".

Safety pins stuck down by RUST.

I swear to god...

@BigStripeyBastard you are absolutely correct!

I don't live in the UK, I live in Switzerland. DS has the most amazing bunker in his school too, the entire place could live underground in the event of a catastrophe (poor teachers 😂)

I was tempted just to take them to try them out. Then fashion myself a tinfoil hat if the warning happens.

Certainly quicker than scrabbling around in that drawer to find them.

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@NoIsACompleteAnswerSometimes ours is also called the Bits drawer.
I Kondoed the house a couple of years ago and for a while it became The Useful Drawer with neatly stored sellotape, glue, batteries, scissors, spare shoelaces etc, but I admit that random crap has appeared in it.
I don't know how anyone exists WITHOUT a Bits Drawer

Ours is a rammel drawer.

We have a few of these. One is never enough is it? Ours are called Useful Boxes and there's one on top of the fridge freezer, one in the baking cupboard, plus the middle drawer.

They do have a trend of their own - useful box on the fridge has screwdrivers, tape measures, (note intention plurals) a smoke alarm, cable ties, picture hanging kits, a freezer bag with glue products in (including Pritt sticks, oddly) wallplugs (yellow only), Raspberry Pi box, old phones, a Wallace & Gromit stationery pack free from Kingsmill, a paintbrush (looks elderly but unused), pack of antibac wipes (unopened).

Useful box in the cupboard tends more towards name labels, batteries of every type and size imaginable, notebooks that came free with Cosmopolitan ten years ago, a pack of stick on lights (for understairs cupboards and the like) with one gone from the pack, windscreen repair kit (used), extra long safety matches, Command hanging strips, party balloons, a waterproof padlock (still in pack), multicoloured elastic bands, a pack of playing cards, some silicone, mysterious items in static proof envelopes, the ubiquitous empty glasses case and some sunglasses.

Both contain small scented candles. There's no medicines, light bulbs, sewing items, greetings cards or miscellaneous chargers or cables because I already have boxes for those...

The middle drawer in the kitchen is also a magnet for otherwise homeless items, but I'm going to have a clear out of that. It should just be freezer and sandwich bags in every size and denomination under the sun; rolls of foil, cling film and baking paper; those foil dishes for sticking your leftovers in the freezer and no bits, like sticky tape rolls, pamphlets about places to go and yet more pairs of sunglasses...