That's Where My Safety Pins Are!

I'm hopping on the Junk Drawer Bandwagon started by Kathy at the newly renamed Everybody Knows.  Riley thoughtfully arranged the contents of his junk drawer on a lovely table but if you do that, then the whole drawer-ness of the collection goes out the window.   I say keep the clutter cluttered! 

There's very little method to the above madness.  Adhesive bandage strips are there so the three-year old can get to them easily.  I used the waffle maker last week and needed to remember how it works so its instruction book replaced the bread machine's that is usually on top of the official Manual Pile.  The maps, bag clips, flashlight fuses and the obsessive-complusive shopping list must all have sentimental value since they haven't been used in years. (The maps have been rendered obsolete by Mapquest and a cable modem.)  As for those magic bottle-opening scissors, still-in-box?  They're going to come in handy one day, I just know it.

Comments

[Kathy]

Is that a baseball schedule down in the corner?

[Mike]

Melinda Morton is a horrible person!
She's an anti- Christian Dyke Lesbian !
GO MARRY ROSIE ODUMBELL !!

[doghouse riley]

Thanks, Mike. That sheds new light on the issue for me.

And thank you, Robin, for the "lovely table" remark. It's my own semi-skilled handiwork, a replacement top for an old school office table my Poor Wife rescued. It sits outside all year and usually has a half-dozen plants on it, so it gets watered on a daily basis. And in my defense, laying out the contents of the drawer resulted in the damn thing being better organized than it's been, well, ever.

[eRobin]

Hi Kathy :) Yes - I forgot to mention that. I have old Mets schedules stuck everywhere. I love those guys.

Riley: Once I reassembled and refinished a tiny table and I felt like a hero. Haven't tried anything like it since.

[http://www.chepooka.com]

Oh no! I can't join this meme because I recently read that book, "Getting Things Done" and learned for the first time in my life how to organize. And now everything I own has a place, a label ... junk drawers are no longer junk drawers and ... who am I? Who am I? Where did I go? :( lol

[eRobin]

No junk drawer!? But where are your safety pins and packing tape?

Start a new meme: I'm so oranized, my safety pins are never lost.

[grannyinsanity]

I wish I had a junk drawer, not a series of boxes that move everywhere. I could start one, but I'd have to put my silverware in a box and then it could travel anywhere!