RV Junk Drawer Items

Above, The Beast at Goulding's Lodge Campground in Monument Valley. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Do It Yourself RV has a good article on what 12 items to keep in a RV "junk drawer".

I have most of the 12 items they listed, although my "junk drawer" in The Beast is much more organized than that of the one pictured with the article.

They begin with:

No matter how organized you are in your own home, nearly every house has some sort of junk drawer. A junk drawer (or junk closet, box, room, corner) is not necessarily full of junk or trash. However, they do tend to hold items that just don’t seem to have homes in other locations.

Junk drawers tend to collect items such as small tools (all those darn Ikea Allen wrenches), rubber bands, eyeglass kits, pens, and other “just in case” items.

RVs also tend to collect items that end up in a junk drawer or random unused space. However, because RVers are usually organized folks, let’s call this space a “utility drawer” instead of a junk drawer. 

It’s just fine to have a catch-all space, but the key is to have only one of these types of drawers. If you have too many utility drawers or too many useful items, you won’t be able to find anything. 

Depending on your RV space, you might not have a drawer to spare. That’s okay, a plastic shoebox or tackle box will do the trick, and they are also portable. 

How many of these 12 items you can fit into that space will depend on the size of your rig and your junk…er…utility drawer.  Whatever you choose to get, make sure each of the items you keep in there are small, lightweight, and easy to handle, use, and store.

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