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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.

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[–] DevopsPalmer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 hours ago

Yours is actually much cleaner, but you cannot escape the drawer. We are all the drawer. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

[–] 4grams@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

A junk drawer? ... yes, most houses have one.

[–] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Yes, embrace the drawer

[–] snowe@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Wow. Yours looks really clean. We have two of these drawers and they're maxed out double as full.

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 1 points 1 hour ago

Ah yes. The “nonsense drawer” as my youngest labeled it. It has stuck. In my parents family it was called the junk drawer.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 hours ago

every family has this drawer. We have this drawer. The solution to having this drawer is having this drawer.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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?

[–] Shacktastic@lemy.lol 2 points 2 hours ago

Pretty hard to avoid the drawer. Maybe find a new home for that scale (maybe sideways in a deep drawer?), throw a few rarely used tools into a ziploc bag, and introduce a caddy or two to corral the small stuff.

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 4 hours ago

Your wife is right mate, this drawer is what makes a house a home.

[–] quafeinum@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Exactly like in the picture

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 25 points 5 hours ago

Every house has one.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Just to the left of the stove, and the goddamn potato masher always manages to wiggle its way to the top and block the drawer opening.

It’s also how some fruit is grown so leave the drawer ecosystem alone.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 points 4 hours ago

Wife is always right

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Nobody has this drawer. They're all lying to you, it's some big in-joke like that reddit thread where that person was asking how to switch from Spanish to English and everybody replied in Spanish. You should stand your ground and tell your wi--I can't even joke about the level of gaslighting that would entail. Everybody has this drawer.

I'll be honest though, the scales are a poor fit and probably make it way more cramped. You can stand those up sideways at the edge of a cupboard or in whatever place that you keep cutting boards, because they're a similar shape.

Depending on how often each thing is used, you could optimise by figuring out a hanging solution for some of them. That's quite a common thing, hanging under cupboards or on the backsplash part of the wall. Your wife might appreciate something like that as long as it's agreed on. You'll never totally get rid of this though.

[–] somedev@aussie.zone 12 points 5 hours ago

Yep, have one. Its perfectly organised, because those things always go back in that drawer so that's just where they go.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 63 points 8 hours ago

Every family has this drawer.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Not only do we have the "one", we each have one in our own space as well.

[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 13 points 6 hours ago

my family has had 2 of these since the 90s and now i have 2 of my own.

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 hours ago

My life is this drawer.

[–] mdurell@lemmy.world 28 points 8 hours ago

Not to brag but I have two of these and a proper junk drawer.

[–] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago

Yes, I have a drawer like that. And yes, every family has this drawer.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Every single organization system will fail. When we try to put things into categories, there will always be some things that don't fit. That is why every organization scheme needs a miscellaneous category. That seems to be the purpose of this drawer, and that's great.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Try being ADHD. Every drawer is a miscellaneous drawer!

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 69 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] ridethisbike@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, that's the junk drawer. This one is all the random kitchen tools drawer. Ladles, can openers, spatulas, meat thermometers, wooden spoons, etc. this and the junk drawer are two different drawers

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

"the junk drawer" is just too damn real.

[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago

don't forget the used Twisties and batteries

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Don't forget tangled wired headphones, rubber bands, a single battery, loose change, and unevenly folded napkins you'll never use!

This guy knows what he's talking about

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Yes. It's so common that it's been a well known joke in the UK for the last 16 years: The "Man" Drawer.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago

We've got 2

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 points 5 hours ago

I see enough squish things tools to designate it the squishing drawer.

[–] Redfox8@mander.xyz 8 points 8 hours ago

Yep, I have a 'random shit' drawer too

[–] th3dogcow@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I lack the space for a drawer like this, instead this exists as a plastic tub in the kitchen cabinet under the sink.

[–] dave@feddit.uk 12 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

I have an entire spare dresser that has nothing but these drawers

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

We have two of them.

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