yes, my mom had a junk drawer and also a candy drawer

If I had a junk bowl these days it would be the size of a small swimming pool.

I also was born in 46. My Mom died in 56, but I remember a cookie jar, blue with flowers on it being the junk bowl. I can still picture it sitting on a little table under the window in the kitchen. Good memories. It's those little things in our lives that make us smile!!!

I still have a junk bowl on the kitchen bench for elastic bands, paper clips, and assorted small pieces. Down the bottom is a small sound box from a Dr Who toy which still says "EXTERMINATE!" whenever it is disturbed! I keep forgetting it is there until I disturb it again, and I jump every time.

My family didn't have a junk bowl; we used a whole drawer. In fact I have one now. I tend to keep twistie ties (of all sizes) in it since those are handy for just about everything. :)

My Grandma had the best "junk bowl". It was a tin container with odds and ends. Crystal button, an acorn (which I had not seen before), commemoritve coins - just all knds of trinkets. I LOVED going through that old metal container.

Born in '47 but I can't remember having a junk bowl.

Just lately, though, I contrasted the differance between my childhood home (and others as well) and homes of today. It seems to me that today we have LOTS more stuff. Talk about junk drawers or bowls, I think alot of people have junk rooms! :mrgreen:

(Blame it on the mass media for convincing us we need all this stuff, 'ya think?)

I had a Laundry Room Bowl when my
children were small.
If I found something in their pockets
it went in the bowl on the shelf.

No exceptions.
This taught them to clean out their
pockets.
Stuff stayed there until we had a
really good "reward" day or
just a rainy day when they were
bored. Then the bowl became a special
place to retreive there GOODIES.
J J

I have a junk bowl by the front door, and then I have 2 junk drawers in the kitchen. If I could just stay off the computer long enough, I think I could get that down to only 1 junk drawer.

I've tried and TRIED to organize our clutter - doesn't work. DH thinks every horizontal surface in the house is HIS to use for whatever happens to be in his hands at the moment when he wants to get it out of his hands ...