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.
Everyone has this drawer, but this one is too organized. It appears to be 100% kitchen tools. You need to add a deck of playing cards, a bunch of soy sauce packets, a few half-used books of matches, a few take-out menus, and some loose keys in order to do this drawer properly.
Don’t forget tangled wired headphones, rubber bands, a single battery, loose change, and unevenly folded napkins you’ll never use!
When my daughter was 4, she named it the “Don’t know where go drawer” and that’s how we’ve referred to it since.
I also have a man drawer.
What is the green thing with the white blades?
Aaaah, the “As seen on TV”+drawer! Yes we have that one.
Why is it on the top. It should be second or third.
Not in my house: We have like, 4 or 5 of that drawer. Between me and my wife we have a shitload of kitchen gadgets and accessories.
I have three small awkward necessary crap drawers, and my apple slicer doesn’t fit into them. But my kitchen is so small, I call in the galley (facetiously, it’s not actually on a boat).
A messy drawer? There should be at least two: one for the kitchen and one for general.
I do not have that drawer. Mine is at least twice as full.
Sorry to say, your wife is right. Sorry to say, even if she is wrong she is right.
I am ridiculously organized and clean. I do that 5 minutes of swift pickup/wipe a few times each day.
That said, still have this drawer. There is always a collection of items that don’t seem to go “together” but they’re always used. That’s what this drawer is for.
I don’t get the stock picture though. It’s an obvious arrangement of tools that haven’t even been used.
To say what others have said in a different way. Yes, in almost any categorisation system, you’re gonna need to deal with some misc haha.
Where else could these things possibly go? (minus the scales, which in my opinion belong on some flat surface in a cupboard of countertop somewhere, since I use my scales all the time)
We have one of these drawers at home, also. I think your wife is right on this one friend.
Yeah it’s a thing. I’ve made wood box type things to separate the drawer out and try to keep it slightly organised.
We do not have that drawer. My kitchen is tiny and only has 2 drawers. As a result, our entire apartment is a mess
Dear OP, the only odd thing about your drawer is that your garlic press in in there (unless this is your backup garlic press of course). In our household, we have it in the main cutlery drawer.
BTW, we have several such drawers spread out over our home: one in the kitchen, one in the living room, one in the home office and several in the garage.
Found the dad.
If you already have a maxed out sharps drawer, then you probably don’t actually need any of the knives in this drawer. Like how often do you actually use the pizza cutter? I just cut pizza with a chef knife. Or the egg cutter? How often is that used? Sometimes the answer is to go through all your drawers and see what can be tossed to make space for the things you actually do use.
