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.
Every family has that drawer
Every family… I have TWO of them
Jesus fuck, it’s fine.
Yeah this is some privileged American problems I wish I had.
Yep, we have that drawer. Ours is much larger and much more full. My wife loves baking, which accounts for a lot of it - there’s about 5 pie servers in there, for example, along with various spatulas of many sizes. There are also three ice cream scoops so the odds are good I’ll have at least one that is clean when I need it. Lemon zester, spoons, all kinds of baking and cooking-related stuff. The rubber things you use to get stubborn jars open. I can’t even think of what else is in there, but there’s a lot.
This is separate from the drawer that has rarely-used knives (we have a knife block for the commonly used knives), cake decorating materials, and similar stuff.
And both of those are separate from the designated “junk drawer” that has random stuff like box cutters, can coozies, gift cards, coupons, etc.
In reality you live in a junk drawer cozy. Just support the junk drawer and everything will probably be OK.
Our catch-all drawer has screwdrivers, pliers and enough other tools to rebuild an engine, plus office supplies.
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.
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.
just take the pizza cutter out
Every house has one.
Yes, embrace the drawer
It’s futile to try and avoid the drawer, it’s like trying to stop entropy itself.
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.
Every family has this 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.
