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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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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I can understand just about everything in this drawer because I have a drawer that looks like that ...

What I don't understand is that lettuce knuckle duster thing .... were you planning on going to war with the vegetables?

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[–] 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Everyone has that drawer. You can tidy it with spacers to make it look a bit less hectic but it will still be that drawer full of random specialty shit.

I by myself only have a single drawer(don't need/have more) but for my parents this is devinetively true. They have one for metal pieces, one for plastic pieces and one for cutlery. The fourth drawer is for all the stuff that isn't really needed that often or simply to big to be put into one of the other drawers.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Yes, every family I've ever known has had a drawer with bulky oversized kitchen utensils and gadgets. The harder you try to organize these things, the more you will realize that you'd just end up with an entire drawer taken up by a single pizza cutter, garlic press, or zester. Theoretically, if you had enough storage space in your kitchen you could do that, but these things are used so infrequently that they either get shoved into one drawer which fully takes up that one space with disorganized chaos, or placed in a receptacle of some sort to sit on the countertop for when you need it, which is ugly and takes up then takes up the counter space instead.

[–] JakenVeina@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

We have this drawer.

[–] Shimitar@feddit.it 4 points 1 day ago

My family has a junk home, not just a drawer :)

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I have 2 of these drawers. 1 in the kitchen and 1 in the garage.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago

Every home has that drawer. What is the problem that needs a solution?

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’ve got four of those.

Edit: wait, that’s a useful disorganized kitchen drawer. I’ve got two. I should do something about my four junk drawers, and today’s the day, goddammit!

I'd filter out metal things that has handles like this pizza cutter and meat hammer and try to give them some sort of a stand or a magnet surface to stick them on.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

At my parents' place, EVERY drawer is like that!

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It can be sorted quite nicely if you get an organiser division thingy. Even if you're only going to keep one thing in each section, it's nice to have each thing in its own place. The difficulty with that is remembering where it's supposed to be, and that it takes more space.

A little basket is suitable for keeping most of those things if you simply accept that them being in the same basket is actually the correct placement for them.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

One basket is practically the same solution as one drawer.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

It's your house's shrine to Anoia. Rattle it every once in a while.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Everyone I've ever known personally has a "junk drawer." It's where various random doodads and thingamajigs go when they don't neatly fit any other category. And batteries.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

For every item in that drawer, ask yourself: "When was the last time I used this?"

If it's more than a year ago, it's not in the right place.

If it's less than a year ago, it's also not in the right place.

Heard that, this drawer is exclusively for things that were used exactly one year ago.

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[–] Onionguy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Have you ever visited other people's kitchens? Everyone has that drawer.

[–] rbn@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Sorry man but I have to side with your wife here. We have even one such junk drawer per room.

  • In the kitchen with scissors, jar opener, potato peeler, nut cracker, sticks, tooth picks...
  • In the living room with matches, candles, coasters, birthday decoration, fertilizer for house plants, ...
  • In the bedroom we even have one per person with protective gear for sports, single socks that have their partner missing, scarves, baseball cap, luggage straps, ...

Could go on with bathroom, laundry room etc. Junk drawers for the win!

[–] christov@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

A drawer full of emergency makeshift weapons? Yes. Also a junk drawer? Yes, more than one.

[–] nafzib@feddit.online 3 points 1 day ago
[–] Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I have no drawers but at least one box per room for this purpose

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

im afraid that everyone has the forbidden drawer. the drawer that should never be opened except as a last ditch effort to find that one appliance that seems to elude you in every other drawer. you can try to destroy the drawer, but it will always come back in some form.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I’m lucky that my drawer like this is actually inside a cutting board cupboard. The inconvenience helps give it purpose: awkward unnecessary crap we rarely use

[–] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

you have too much stuff. time to minimalize!

I wish I could open mine.

[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I don't have this drawer. I have several drawers organised by use. Baking, cooking, eating, etc. All are barely organised.

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Every household, family or sole occupant, has this drawer. Sometimes there are more than one of these.

[–] maymay@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

No drawer. Probably due to the kitchen layout, we don't have smaller drawers, so the tools and such go into their own container.

We have this drawer, maybe 2. My parents recently thinned and organized theirs. You can get cut-to-fit drawer Inserts if it bothers you.

We have several of those drawers.

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