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Please help resolve a disagreement in our home (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by canitendtherabbits@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My mom has one of these, but we (my and my brother) don't live with her anymore. We (me and my gf) don't have one.

You might like a doom box: "didn't organise only moved". Put it in sight but make sure it's small enough that you can put it away when guests are over.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

just take the pizza cutter out

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't have this drawer. The ambiguous items just get a place assigned to them with their less ambiguous brethren. And some of these more three dimensional things I keep in a cabinet, like the funnels. I usually keep my scale out on the counter at all times because it's part of my coffee setup in addition to just baking/cooking

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I'd just point out that most of that drawer could be replaced with a good knife. I mean is cutting garlic really so onerous you need a fancy doodad? Even the zesters functionality could be done with a knife. I hate to be judgey bastard, but that drawer smacks of consumerism and excess. With the exception of the mixer prongs and the scale I'm not seeing anything needed in a residential kitchen.

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

We do

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

Your house is this drawer. Think about it.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

First thing I'd do is recycle that stupid plastic whatsit and the egg slicer that got used once.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yes we all have it.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Planer, pizza cutter, egg cutter, and scraper go in the knife drawer. Funnel goes with measuring cups, scale goes on the counter or take the stuff out from under it so it sits flat. Garlic press and that chacram looking thing go in the trash.

In our house this is similar to the spoons drawer, the drawer that holds all the stirring utensils for cooking.

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