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.

  • deltapi@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Yes, I have the where-does-this-thing-go drawer, for food prep items that don’t fit elsewhere, and also the junk drawer which includes things like

    • Lighter
    • Weird long plyers
    • Twine
    • Self-fusing rubber tape
    • Random rubber bands
    • Twist ties that came with electronics
    • A random assortment of sharpies in various states of abuse
    • A weird scissor thing with a blade at 90° to a flat piece of steel
    • Random Lego pieces
    • Batteries that are good but not in packaging
    • Hearing aid batteries (noone in our house has hearing aids)
    • A single 12"x18" piece of Scotch Brite
    • Matches
    • A pencil with the tip broken off
    • A pair of 1/2" Cast iron pipe 90° fittings
    • A key for a car that nobody can ID
    • The manual for the microwave
    • A bunch of pennies
    • Coupons for McRibs that are expired gone thanks for this thread
    • Our home insurance policy nope, 3y out of date
    • A replacement impeller for the fish tank
    • An iPod charger (FireWire)
    • An iPhone charger (usb)
    • 2 sets of analog headphones
    • A dishwasher cleaning tablet

    So…there you go.

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    1 hour 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.

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    2 hours ago

    We have a space for that in our cutlery drawer, as well as a basket of miscellanea in a shelf where it doesn’t matter if they get dusty.

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    2 hours 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.

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    5 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.

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    6 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.

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    7 hours ago

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

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    5 hours 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.

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    4 hours ago

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