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Where did all these twist-ties come from??

March 1st, 2008 at 04:28 pm

I'm sure most everyone has a "junk" drawer in their house, typically in the kitchen I would guess. We somehow have managed to develop 3 junk drawers in our kitchen. I decided to tackle cleaning a couple of them today. The first one wasn't too bad. A few assorted items that really didn't belong in the kitchen. Way too many pens. A bunch of new pencils that didn't even have points yet. Some expired coupons. You know - junk.

Then I moved on to the 2nd drawer. I was running short on time by then so chose not to dump it and start fresh. Instead, I just kind of dug around in there to see what I could find that didn't belong. The main thing I found was twist-ties, twist-ties and more twist-ties. Dozens and dozens of them. Different sizes. Different colors. Both new and previously used.

We buy trash bags that come with twist ties, but we never use them. We tie off the ends of the bags to close them instead. So the pack of ties goes in the drawer. Well, after a few years of this, you end up with a drawer overflowing with twist-ties apparently.

Twist-ties also come from bread packages, toy packages and assorted other places. Being the thrifty type, I don't throw away the used ones. I straighten them out and stick them in the drawer. Boy, I won't ever do that again. It was tough, but I made myself throw out all the old, used, twisted ones and just saved the new, flat, clean ones (and I saved way more of those than we would possibly need).

Who knows what lurks in drawer #3? That's a project for another day.

Posted in Cooking/Household Stuff | 5 Comments »

5 Responses to “Where did all these twist-ties come from??”

  1. Aleta Says:
    March 1st, 2008 at 04:34 pm 1204389280
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    I had to smile when I read your post because I run into the same problem. First of all, I normally don't like the ties that come with the bread, so I use a stronger tie. I have found the system of taking the drawer and dumping everything out and sifting from there to be the best system. I look for like items also. I think everyone should have a junk drawer but we should clean it more frequently. It seems to be the catch-all drawer for everything.

    Good luck on the 3rd drawer.

  2. HouseHopeful Says:
    March 1st, 2008 at 05:04 pm 1204391054
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    I also have a drawer full of ties Smile I just cleaned my junk drawer out last week & threw away a ton of them. While keeping some of the good ones.

  3. littlemama Says:
    March 1st, 2008 at 05:23 pm 1204392190
    1204392190

    The dreaded junk drawer!? You're a brave soul. You ALMOST got me motivated to clean mine. Smile

  4. mom-from-missouri Says:
    March 1st, 2008 at 08:44 pm 1204404263
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    When I married DH, he had a row of junk drawers--all the drawers on one side of kitichen...I got rid of them all. Keys now go on the key holder, batteries now go in the battery box in the cabinet in the laundry area, coupons now go in the coupon box. His biggie was the zillions of soysauce packets, ketchup & mustard, salt, pepper and plastic silverware......
    But, I did find about $20 in loose change in the drawers also.

  5. disneysteve Says:
    March 1st, 2008 at 08:54 pm 1204404886
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    mom, I must admit I found 2 packs of Chinese mustard that were totally dried out and solid - yuck. I also found a couple of coupons that expired quite some time ago. Needless to say, we need to clean out the drawers a little more often.

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