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My Junk Drawer.

What is in?      
     
Bits of string, bottle tops, vinegar sprinkler,        
(just the top not the whole bottle this slips        
inside the next bottle if I've forgotten to get      
one with a sprinkler, see?)  I haven't the      
patience to use a cruet set besides I use    
my one egg cup for salt. & pepper comes    
with a built in holed shaker/sprinkler top.    
     
Sardine keys, corned beef key, ( these are slot    
B thingies where tab A on the tin slips in then    
you can kinda screw them open and not like keys    
for a keyhole type key and lock. Can opener,      
a corkscrew I've never used, fuses for plugs      
a screwdriver kit of which I've lost the handle    
(these kits are brill they've got loads of    
those things for undoing screws in all shapes    
and sizes and only £1 but no good without the handle, twats!)    
some swizzle sticks, loose pain killers, the packets      
long since ripped apart, O god, in frantic haste...    
       
An unused dummy(pacifier) just in case        
broken rings, broken pens, pencil stubs, lighters      
vape juice (I've long since quit but I'm a ' just in case'er '  
*see siege mentality) a tape measure      
(the cloth one) half set of measuring spoons.      
       
1 egg cup (usually used for salt, see above)    
tin opener different from can opener        
cos this punctures to let liquid out the other      
one cuts the  top of the tin can to get solids out    
or is it the  other way round?      
       
Plastic bags bread is sold in for reuse as freezer      
bags, these get pushed to the back of the drawer      
then, inevitably slip through to the kitchen cupboard      
underneath, to join up with toothpicks aka cocktail sticks      
previous Christmases serviettes, little paper cups for        
baking little cakes in and who on earth could truly be bothered...
Written by Rew
Published | Edited 22nd Dec 2023
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The junk drawer competition.
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