a picture...and a question
a re-post...from the archives
an idea for dinner
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This is the junk drawer. I once thought of writing a book about junk drawers... Junk Drawers of the Rich and Famous. It would show close-ups of famous junk drawers and catalog the contents, the premise being, that we are all equal when it comes to the junk drawer. My sister-in-law dashed my book plans when she casually mentioned that she does not have a junk drawer. Holy Mother of God, how is that even possible? Where does she put all. that. crap? The Raffi CD, the vampire blood, the tire gauge, the mouse trap, the starfish, the baggie full of state capitol magnets, the walkie talkie, the batteries........Where do the kids go to find everything in the world that they've ever lost?
So here's the question.
Do you, gentle reader, have a junk drawer?
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From the archives...the hidden garden...some thoughts on letting our kids go at their own pace.
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Our vegetarian week went off with out a hitch. One of Max's friends (a cute girl) even said that we were 'so cool'...so score one for vegetables.
I'm not feeling very motivated to cook right now, so let me think, what's quick and easy and doesn't destroy the kitchen....
Ah yes, I've got it.
(I once worked in a very authentic Italian restaurant in jax hole and this was a quick and flavorful favorite, made infamous by ladies of the night in Italy)
a greens and pea salad with basil green goddess dressing
fresh bread (another staple from our Wyoming days)
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Junk drawer?
SO I'm loving Raffi and vampire blood...hmmmm,you are a strange bunch in CO. In our fam we acually have 1 1/2 junk drawers because one is "partly" cleaned up. They hold such treasures as change, hair rubber bands,old receipts , dog hair!- stale chewing gum halfway in it's wrapper,shoelace, dead cell phone, a few beer caps(all needful things!)
ReplyDeleteGood Greif.
ha! i love that raffi and vampire blood are sharing prime drawer space.
ReplyDeletealso, your sil? what planet does she live on? because i've never known a house without a junk drawer. it's mandatory. and i would totally pre-order your book.
Oh how I wish we had a junk drawer! There is such little storage in this rental house that the ONE drawer in the kitchen holds cooking utensils. Instead we have, what I lovingly refer to as, "Rat Piles"...Little rat pack (pack-rat?) piles of crap strategically placed around the house. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteThat dirty, dirty dinner idea sounds delicious!
I love your book idea. You should do it. It would be like that photo section in US Weekly of celebrities looking haggard in the grocery store parking lot, but EVEN BETTER!!!
Does your sister have OCD? I am suspicious. (And very jealous. She obviously has her act together!) :)
I love that you posted about this! I spent 5 minutes this morning trying to open our junk drawer! Seems somehow the pencil box pushed up on a stack of take-out menus that wedged the mace against the cabinet. The more I pulled the more certain I was that I was going to get pepper sprayed! Time to clean that thing out!
ReplyDeleteThe front of our cutlery drawer magically turns into a junk drawer quite regularly. Lately, I've been a bit more devoted to keeping it a cutlery, string and batteries drawer. Oh, and elastics. And ever since the random toys and paperclips and labels and stickers and watches with dead batteries and keys to houses we don't even remember got turfed, a favourite toy car has vanished, seemingly into the ether. Which just proves your theory, that that's where kids find things. My son still looks in there every day, sure there must be some rubble to sift through in search of said car, even though it's been missing for months, and the rubble has been kept at bay for months. There's a lesson in this, clearly.
ReplyDeleteIvey, no matter what you sil said, I think you have a million dollar book idea and you really should pitch it to the 'in the know' guys!
ReplyDeleteI must confess that we have two junk drawers, that sounds really bad doesn't it?
Mike saves every nail, screw, wire nut, rubberband,sharks teeth [?!] ect. because you know,one day he might need it. Of course, when the time comes he can never find anything,but that has never stopped my pack rat loving husband for saving it all!
Our junk drawer is my hubby's workshop :) We only have one drawer in the kitchen, so I usually pile up the "stuff" that doesn't seem to have a place and out it goes. His workshop is a diaster, but when I ask where something is, out he goes and brings it in...love that!
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed your vegetarian week!
Not often I see the words "love" and "junk drawer" in the same sentence! I abhor mine, but since it seems to get refilled within a few days I have decided to come to terms with the fact that I am a junk drawer person. I'm also a last minute person and a procrastinator, two other qualities that I wish I didn't have but can't really get away from. I have to admit I actually have two junk drawers. What do I have in there? Cd's, toys I don't know what to do with, sunscreen, journals, take-away menus, lego catalogues, stray socks, lip scrub and things that just haven't found a "home" yet.
ReplyDeleteA junk drawer is a must and every once in a while when I clean and organize mine...I find myself going back numerous times to open it and stare at the beauty! No OCD over here but when visiting my daughter I have been known to clean and organize HER junk drawer--Thanks for letting me Ko!
ReplyDeleteOur drawers tend toward the end of "multipurpose" drawers on their good days, e.g. we have a battery/lightbulb drawer, a notepad/electronics charger drawer, and then a good old fashioned "junk" drawer which is fairly neat but too many odds & ends to title it. I have seen nice organizers for junk drawers but never understood how they must work...
ReplyDeleteCouldn't Imagine life without a junk drawer. My dear friend calls mine my " dirty little secret", since the rest of the house is pretty clean and sparse. Also in college my friend's Mom dumped her entire junk drawer in a box and sent it to her! That's one way to get rid of all that junk- drop it on some poor unsuspecting soul!
ReplyDeleteYes to I have a junk drawer, but I inherited the gene. My mother never had a drawer that wasn't full. When we had hospice for her we set her bed in the dining room and one of the women there to help suggested we put the things on top of a cabinet in the drawer of the cabinet to make room for I forget what. My niece (who was staying to help) and I looked at each other and started laughing. We knew the secret...that drawer and all others in the room were FULL already. I think it is a kind of safety valve. Some of us need it more than others. I try to go by topics, but one drawer just becomes the catch all. :) Helen
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