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From: NPR

What Your Junk Drawer Reveals About You

NPR:

The Great American Junk Drawer can be an accidental time capsule, a haphazard scrap heap, a curious box of memories and meaninglessness. It can also serve as a Rorschachian reflection of your life.

You know what we’re talking about: The drawer of detritus. The has-been bin. That roll-out repository where you toss your odds and ends. Sometimes very odd odds and ends. Sometimes whatnot never to be seen again.

Various places on the Internet, such as The Junk Drawer Project and House Beautiful, showcase people’s messes and miscellanies. We found a few images of junk drawers on Flickr. And if you don’t have enough junk of your own, you can purchase a Junk Drawer Starter Kit on Ebay.

You can tell a lot about a person or a family from the household junk drawer. “I snoop through people’s drawers, pantries, closets and garages as part of my research,” says Kit Yarrow, a consumer psychologist at Golden State University, “and I can say without hesitation that the junk drawer is the most revealing place I can look.”

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