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.
My wife has serious ADHD, this is every drawer.
This is not a junk drawer. A junk drawer has flashlights, pocket knife, some tools, tape, bandaids, pens. This drawer doesn’t have anything like that.
This is the food prep drawer.
I have three food utensil drawers. Dining, serving, and prep.
If you have a small kitchen, maybe you would combine serve and prep utensils into one drawer.
Can opener, cheese grater, scale, rolling pin, whisks, mixer parts, and cooking knives, all go into drawer. But like the bread knife and cake knife go into serve drawer, along with labels, and serving spoons, for example.
It’s called a junk drawer and as far as I am aware it’s an inevitability. However, I will say it’s odd that you have utensils in there. Most junk drawers I’ve encountered are filled with random crap that rarely if ever gets used.
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?
That’s essentially the “overflow” drawer. The only solution is to have less stuff… Or just live with it like i do lol
Almost every home has a junk drawer or other junk container. Mine has multiple.
All that being said, I don’t think I’ve seen a drawer as confusing as this.
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.
The problem is not the organization or lack thereof, the problem is that someone in your household buys too many niche specialized single-purpose kitchen tools. Wtf is that thing with the green handle?
I try to donate any kitchen tool that I haven’t used in a year or two.
I have this drawer.
It’s not a junk drawer.
It’s an irregular kitchen items drawer.
It’s just the cost of being someone who actually uses their kitchen. We have the garlic press, scissors, pizza cutter, bench scrapers, microplaners, thermometers, etc… in there. All useful things that fit poorly with other things, so they get a drawer all to themselves.
The junk drawer with batteries and twist ties is another drawer.
Entropy wins… always. You must free yourself and accept this. You cannot defeat entropy.
Every house has one. My mother with legit OCD had one… though she claimed it was a ‘Miscellaneous’ drawer and not a junk drawer. (To be fair, it was a well organized junk drawer at any rate.)
But yeah, your wife is right.
Don’t known, but that big green thing with the clamping white blades…do not put your dick in that.
Of course, everyone has this drawer. It’s called a junk drawer. Where else would you put this crap. What planet are you living on?
Yep. The “junk drawer”. Even in my house with my diagnosed OCD mom had one of these.
We have this drawer.
A junk/misc. drawer? Yes.
This isn’t junk/misc, most of those things should have proper places.
This is a monstrous misuse of the misc drawer. The pizza cutter, for example, should be with your knives.
It’s so not a junk drawer it should be a proper utensil drawer if nothing else. Get that scale out and just line the others up like you live in a society!
