My wife says every family has this drawer. I do not believe every family has this drawer. Do you have this drawer? Do you know a good solution to this drawer?
We have a silverware drawer, organized, maxed out. A sharps drawer, organized, maxed out. Ziplocs, organized, maxed out. Bbq tools and oven mitts, organized, maxed out. But all this shit has no particular category so fuck me right. I gotta have an awkward necessary crap drawer. Maybe I should post all my drawers and crowdsource me some sense into my kitchen.
You’re lucky you only have one, and it’s only a single layer deep
Yes, I have the where-does-this-thing-go drawer, for food prep items that don’t fit elsewhere, and also the junk drawer which includes things like
- Lighter
- Weird long plyers
- Twine
- Self-fusing rubber tape
- Random rubber bands
- Twist ties that came with electronics
- A random assortment of sharpies in various states of abuse
- A weird scissor thing with a blade at 90° to a flat piece of steel
- Random Lego pieces
- Batteries that are good but not in packaging
- Hearing aid batteries (noone in our house has hearing aids)
- A single 12"x18" piece of Scotch Brite
- Matches
- A pencil with the tip broken off
- A pair of 1/2" Cast iron pipe 90° fittings
- A key for a car that nobody can ID
- The manual for the microwave
- A bunch of pennies
Coupons for McRibs that are expiredgone thanks for this threadOur home insurance policynope, 3y out of date- A replacement impeller for the fish tank
- An iPod charger (FireWire)
- An iPhone charger (usb)
- 2 sets of analog headphones
- A dishwasher cleaning tablet
So…there you go.
You need to run bleachbit on all that
We have a space for that in our cutlery drawer, as well as a basket of miscellanea in a shelf where it doesn’t matter if they get dusty.
just take the pizza cutter out
I have a knife drawer with 2/3 of these objects in it and a measuring tool drawer witj 1/3 of these items. My junk drawer contains literally nothing in this drawer.
Yes, every family has this drawer, and every family also has a member who despises this drawer and fruitlessly reorganizes, labels and makes it easy for everyone else but it takes one load of dishes and…
What were we talking about again. Oh yeah, that’s normal.
You have the OCD strain of autism and so do your parents.
Yes, embrace the drawer
Yeah, we have this drawer. There are always going to be some tools you use in the kitchen enough to justify the purchase but not enough to be in any of the daily driver drawers. Honestly, this is not bad, we have a drawer that is the awkward necessary crap drawer for the awkward necessary crap drawer.
Wow. Yours looks really clean. We have two of these drawers and they’re maxed out double as full.
Every house has one.
I am proud to say that I don’t have this drawer. I grew up in a house with this drawer and always hated it. Nothing new is added to the kitchen without considering the actual need and anything that goes unused for any length of time is getting reevaluated.
Could you un max out other areas? Eliminate duplicates elsewhere so things in this drawer could be moved to the newly made space?
Exactly like in the picture
A junk drawer? … yes, most houses have one.
Ah yes. The “nonsense drawer” as my youngest labeled it. It has stuck. In my parents family it was called the junk drawer.
