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.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    14 minutes ago

    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).

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    10 minutes ago

    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.

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    10 minutes ago

    Yeah it’s a thing. I’ve made wood box type things to separate the drawer out and try to keep it slightly organised.

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    53 minutes ago

    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.

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    31 minutes ago

    A messy drawer? There should be at least two: one for the kitchen and one for general.

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    2 hours ago

    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.

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    54 minutes ago

    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.

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    2 hours ago

    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.

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    3 hours ago

    Every family has a misc. drawer. Staplers, pens, rubber bands, paper clips. Lots of office supplies usually but it often will broaden out to all kinds of random crap.

    That one is not exactly what I’d expect in the misc drawer but it’s not totally out of bounds?

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    2 hours ago

    We have this drawer. Full of kitchen utensils that don’t fit nicely into other drawers.

    My parents did not have this drawer. Or at least, not nearly to this extent. Idk how they did it with a smaller kitchen than we have.

    I have to sat that the additional of a scale to that drawer is a wild choice

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    1 hour ago

    I also don’t have that drawer, but I have a box next to the toolbox labeled “useful crap that aren’t tools”