Confession: My Kitchen Junk Drawer Confessions from a junk drawer life. A junk drawer’s purpose is to have the things we need close at hand instead of far away in the storage or in the garage. However, junk drawers, when you give them a few years or even days, quickly live up to their name. They become a free for all filled with so many things that you can’t even open the drawer. When we don’t know what’s important or when we’re too lazy to put it where it should go, we e