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The wrong type of usb cable.

The warranty card for a small appliance you got rid of seven years ago.

Dead batteries.

Dried out elastics

That smell! Come on, you know it.

Pencil shavings stuck to dried up play dough

Several dry, useless pens and at least two dull pencils with no sharpener anywhere.

Huge collection of twisty ties

Bobby pins.

Expired subway/metro card from a city you are never going back to

Half a box of birthday candles.

At least three pens that don’t work

Small screw-on caps to unknown containers

At least one pen that no longer writes.

Enough string to snarl half the contents of said drawer.

A "mystery" set of keys.

Fridge-magnet ad from the basement water-proofers who worked at your house in 2020.

at least five pens, four of which no longer work but you can't remember which four so you keep them all and keep trying them in case one of them is the one that works

it's called a strippenkart, in case anyone else remembers.

Always a "where's the rest of it" moment when opening that drawer

plastic utensils and a single paper napkin in clear plastic wrap

Old keys 🗝️

Several AA batteries of dubious functionality.

Tape measure.

A screw and a nut that don't fit together

And the wire hasp from a Champagne cork.

A lighter without lighter fluid

Soy sauce and ketchup

A rubber band that will break as soon as you try to use it.

Greedia, don't lose that number! 😄

A true junk drawer must contain a minimum of three pennies, and an old marble.

A cord that goes to something but you don't know what so you keep it because you KNOW it goes to something and you WILL need it one day or never.

A Bic lighter from 1994 that you still believe in.

Some electric cars do.... 🤔

Ketchup and soy sauce packets

Can confirm.

Yes! Classic.

Random paper clips

Matchbooks.

One random battery that doesn't fit anything you own.

Mail from the previous home owner that you can't destroy nor send.

--Padlock, no key --1 Lego --Dry glue stick --Preschool barrett of adult daughter

Lint!!!

one chopstick

Sticks the landing.

😆True

An unopened Happy Meal toy from the 90’s.

One half of a clothespin, with the spring.

Pens, highlighters and sharpies all dried out of course.

Every single size of battery except the one you need RIGHT NOW. *Apologies for bending the setup of the post. **Seriously, yesterday I had to get AAA batteries because I had every other size in the junk drawer. Guess which one I needed urgently?

One battery of questionable charge

Paper clips

calculator

A ball of rubber bands

Keys that don’t belong to any door you can find

I mean, where else would something like that go?

Just threw away a push pin so this wouldn't happen. Thought about drawering it, but old enough to know better.

Various packets of expired condiments you saved knowing you would only ever use them if you were trying to survive a zombie apocolypse.

Random Allen wrenches

A small sealed plastic pouch containing some screws and drywall anchors.

Two undeveloped canisters of film

Likely dead batteries

20 year old pencil

There is no known way to avoid this.

A tube of crazy glue that was used once, and now is crusted and dried out so it can't be used again.

Lanyard from defunct conference

Loose AA batteries that may or may not be used and which you don’t remember buying.

Personalized matchbox from some wedding that happened in the 90's, or earlier.

Matches even though no one smokes

At least a hundred assorted screws & nails.

Staples

Required.

This. Miscellaneous, different sized, unpackaged batteries. Some work, some do not, nobody knows which.

Junk-drawer flashlights are for storing dead batteries, that’s why they’re next to the candles😉

drywall screws with old drywall dust on them

IKEA hex wrench(es)

10 of those screw tools you get to assemble furniture.

Flash drives of unremembered origins

key that you have no idea where it might work

100% accurate

OMG! I'm sure I have CueCat downstairs somewhere. Likely in a box with multiple AOL installation CD's or perhaps even floppies. Now our phones do everything a CueCat was supposed to.

I hang all my cables on a door's coat hook

A bunch of ink pens that are dried out.

Scissors. Rounding out scissors would be tape and those little plastic deals that close a loaf of bread. When you start putting things in it that you’re too lazy to put back in your toolbox you’ve gone too far.

The blank warranty card to the toaster you had before the last toaster died.

Coins from countries that don’t exist anymore.

Loose birthday candles

Only 5?! … Fancy.

All the same size.

Haha. Reminds me of this…

Hammer

Started to say that!

This is the key.

An old pre-smart phone cell phone.

A nutcracker - not the decoration, the hinged metal thing you hold in one hand.

😂

And all of the edibles.

Exactly!

Now I'm getting flashbacks.

A key to an unknown lock

A combination lock you plan to use for the pool locker... once you remember the combination.

A battery

Packets of soy sauce

paper clips rusted because you've gone paperless.

Three dried-out markers and an assortment of non-matching screws.

It’s a flathead and you’ve used it for too many non screwing reasons to count.

One dead AA battery.