The junk drawer traces its roots to Depression-era scarcity, when saving small items wasn't clutter — it was survival strategy. Despite its reputation for chaos, the junk drawer followed a quiet logic ...

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The humble junk drawer is a fixture in almost every home. True to its name, the junk drawer is a place to store everything that doesn’t have a natural home elsewhere. But the junk drawer also serves ...

Even the most pristinely organized and Marie Kondo’d among us still have a junk drawer—that place where tangled headphones, scrapbooking tape, Costa Rican coins, and one random golf ball coexist ...

I’m going to go on a limb and assume that you have a junk drawer. We all have one, and I don’t know about you, but I’m not about to get rid of mine. After all, where else would we put our junk?

According to the evolutionary biologists*, right after humans woke up with opposable thumbs, they used those thumbs to open a drawer in their kitchen and fill it with crap they didn’t need.