Everybody Has One so Let’s Talk About It

I bet you have one. Maybe it’s in your kitchen. Mine are located there. But I bet you don’t have three of them. How about four?

I’m talking about the “junk drawer” or in my case, drawers. We have a twenty two drawers in our kitchen and over the years four of them morphed into infamous junk drawers.

Since we have been having chilly weather this week, I became kind of frisky and decided to clean out all of those drawers. Oh, the junk I found. I found pens that died of ink thirst a long time ago. I found matchbooks from places I have never heard of. Then there were the soda straws still in their paper wrapper. Don’t ask. I found instructions about how to care for plants I don’t even remember owning. There were cardboard coasters from assorted bars and restaurants. There was the little packet of incense that had long ago turned into incense dust and little sticks. Of course there were keys that I have no idea what they could open or when. Included in the junk was a half box of red, white and blue birthday cake candles. Since I haven’t baked a cake for who knows how long and don’t remember ever using candles that color, I am accusing those rascals of sneaking into my house. Most of all there were coupons and recipes that I have never used and never will. Junk! Junk! Junk!

The most unusual thing I discovered was a tiny turtle made out of sea shells and to top off his looks, he was wearing a tiny little pair of wire rim glasses. I couldn’t toss him in the trash can with all the other junk and I couldn’t recycle him, so he survived and is sitting on the windowsill in my kitchen. He looks rather dashing.

I am now proud to say I have four drawers that have gone through a complete cleaning and not a piece of junk remains here except the little shell turtle. See what happens when the weather gets cold and the frisky feelings return, some of us clean our drawers.