The Junk Drawer

Growing up in my home in Sutherland, there was a drawer in the corner cabinet that was full of junk. Such as nuts and small bolts, screws, nails, paper clips, shoe laces, small hinges, thumb tacks, a few small tools, small paint brushes, etc. When ever we needed something, we would go to that drawer to see if we could find it. Occasionally we did, but most of the time we didn't. Bread crumbs would make their way into that drawer. It was still there when I married and left home. It was moved when my mother moved into town. She did not take it with her. I went to school, graduated, and then began teaching. That junk drawer showed up in our house. Not the same one, but one like it that contained the same things. I have been retired for 18 years of so. But I have discovered that most of the drawers I have or junk drawers. I have a junk closet. I have a junk garage. I have junk under my bed. I have my under ware in a small corner of one drawer. I have my socks in the top front of another drawer. The first two feet in my closet has the clothes I wear. The rest is junk. I leave junk around the house and Carol is still trying to train me to put it a way. I have a stack of junk papers. I have a stack of junk magazines and catalog. There are three dressers with draws and a cedar chest that I to a look in side last week and that was the first time in years. These are all in the bedroom. The kitchen is a little better. Most of the drawers are opened every day, and there is nothing hiding in them. It is different in the cupboards. There are a couple of cupboards where things are hiding in the back. The other day we went through the "junk" in the milk safe. We found some things in there that we haven't seen for several years. I have had three or four computers of the last ten years and now have a lot of Junk files and junk emails. When the computer quits, you have to have more memory in the next one to hold all the junk files and junk mail or the last computer plus more memory for the new software.