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us Offline Swiss Man

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Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
on: March 31, 2012, 07:22:15 PM
Forgive me if this sounds like a silly question but are junk drawers only in the U.S.A? 

If other countries have them what are they called?

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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #1 on: March 31, 2012, 07:27:14 PM
Do you need photos of mine? I have plenty of those in the kitchen...just in case you are wondering.  :D
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Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #2 on: March 31, 2012, 07:32:20 PM
Yep junk draw here in England. If you talk to my wife she will say I have an entire garage now.
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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #3 on: March 31, 2012, 07:35:52 PM
I think junk drawers are pretty universal.  I've personally seen them in Japan, Czech Rep. and Hungary.

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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #4 on: March 31, 2012, 08:13:33 PM
I have more of them to.
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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #5 on: March 31, 2012, 08:43:04 PM
We also have them in Belgium, here we call them "rommel schuif"  ;).
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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #6 on: March 31, 2012, 08:47:49 PM
Quote from: Farmman on March 31, 2012, 07:32:20 PM
Yep junk draw here in England. If you talk to my wife she will say I have an entire garage now.
:rofl:

This is true for me too.  We honestly don't have a "junk drawer" in our house.  Our garage is for that.    :D
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Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #7 on: March 31, 2012, 11:10:39 PM
Nope I don't have one. Everything I have is organized and sorted. It's the only way I can keep sane in all this madness we call the world.
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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #8 on: March 31, 2012, 11:15:39 PM
mines called a MAN DRAWER

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Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #9 on: March 31, 2012, 11:55:51 PM
I think I can find a couple of drawers like that around the house.. :D


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Reply #10 on: April 01, 2012, 12:29:33 AM
I have a junk "cabinet"

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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #11 on: April 01, 2012, 01:32:09 AM
Huh, I think I have a junk bedroom... mine!  :-[

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Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
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Reply #14 on: April 01, 2012, 01:53:48 AM
That was suppose to be a smiley and a thumbs up I don't know what happened twice .

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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #15 on: April 01, 2012, 02:07:45 AM
Quote from: hansthebear on March 31, 2012, 11:15:39 PM
mines called a MAN DRAWER
Yep, I got one of these :P
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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #16 on: April 03, 2012, 04:54:49 PM
I have an end-table like thing that has 7 drawers.  They are all my junk drawers. 
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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #17 on: April 03, 2012, 11:29:59 PM
Quote from: badwolf on April 01, 2012, 02:07:45 AM
Quote from: hansthebear on March 31, 2012, 11:15:39 PM
mines called a MAN DRAWER
Yep, I got one of these :P


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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #18 on: April 03, 2012, 11:32:58 PM
Quote from: badwolf on April 01, 2012, 02:07:45 AM
Quote from: hansthebear on March 31, 2012, 11:15:39 PM
mines called a MAN DRAWER
Yep, I got one of these :P

that was exactly the sketch I was thinking of as well. :D  I also have a 'man drawer'. 8)
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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #19 on: April 04, 2012, 12:04:56 AM
3 Drawers in our kitchen probably fit junk-drawer description. Along with 1 cupboard,
and a good portion of our 2nd bedroom (closet and floor).

In our defense, we don't have a garage, and our 'basement' is actually a cellar, mostly
the domain of house-spiders and ... THESE...


As horrifying as they appear, they're just a kind of cricket: harmless really, but ugly.

Soo... we leave all our 'junk' in our already small and crowded house.
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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #20 on: April 04, 2012, 01:57:48 AM
If I saw one of those in my house, I would engage with 9mm rounds and then burn it down.  Say what you will about living in Canada; yeah it's cold and there's lots of snow but at least I don't have to put up with that nonsense.

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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #21 on: April 04, 2012, 02:43:10 AM
Quote from: Lynn LeFey on April 04, 2012, 12:04:56 AM
[...] our 'basement' is actually a cellar, mostly
the domain of house-spiders and ... THESE...
(Image removed from quote.)

As horrifying as they appear, they're just a kind of cricket: harmless really, but ugly.

I suddenly have new insight into how people afraid of spiders feel when I just carry away a spider that have frightened them instead of killing it...

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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #22 on: April 04, 2012, 03:18:18 AM
Quote from: Lynn LeFey on April 04, 2012, 12:04:56 AM
3 Drawers in our kitchen probably fit junk-drawer description. Along with 1 cupboard,
and a good portion of our 2nd bedroom (closet and floor).

In our defense, we don't have a garage, and our 'basement' is actually a cellar, mostly
the domain of house-spiders and ... THESE...
(Image removed from quote.)

As horrifying as they appear, they're just a kind of cricket: harmless really, but ugly.

Soo... we leave all our 'junk' in our already small and crowded house.

If I had those running around my house I'd have 12 gauge marks on everything.  Just looking at the picture I'm having Starship Trooper flashbacks, and I'm not talking about the shower scene!

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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #23 on: April 04, 2012, 04:10:50 AM
TBH real junk drawers are those controlled by women. It's such a mess, that sometimes they don't even open.

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Re: Is "Junk drawers" an American tradition only?
Reply #24 on: April 04, 2012, 06:16:36 AM
I like to fill my man drawer with old chargers and various other bits of mystery electronic cables. It acts like a tree's root system and keeps everything together in the event of a mudslide.

I remember my grandfather's junk drawer was a goldmine when I was a kid. He was a glazier for 40 years and a Jehovah's Witness (like Amish people with power tools for those that don't know) and the stuff he had in there was mind boggling to a 10 year old. Crazy glazier tools and hardware that I'd never seen before, old pocket knives, drill bits, driver tips, you name it. Every time I'd dig something cool out and go running to him to ask him if I could keep it the response was the same,

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