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.
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?
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.
My wife has serious ADHD, this is every drawer.
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.
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.
We have this drawer.
Yep. The “junk drawer”. Even in my house with my diagnosed OCD mom had one of these.
Remove the scale, electronics don’t belong in the misc food prep and niche baking implements drawer. Once you do that you’ll easily recognize it as the food prep and niche baking implements drawer. The scale goes on a shelf, or in a cabinet next to the mixer/food proc/salad spinner.
Scale goes right next to the flour in a cabinet.
You’re the worst kind of human. Flour should be haphazardly measured using volume and feelings and a “good enough” mentality.
We have the scale on the top at hand all time and use it for everything. Is pretty good for measuring water.
I do not have this drawer.
I have two of this drawer.
I’d be more inclined to call this a misc utensils drawer. I have one just like it, with many of the same items, but I also have a true “junk drawer”, but it has anything but utensils in it. Like, batteries, screws, magnifying glass, fire starters, a deck of cards, etc. All of the shit that ends up near the kitchen that doesn’t have a whole space dedicated to similar things, finds a home in the junk drawer.
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.
Every family has this drawer.
Every single person does not have this drawer.
Every child has this for every drawer.
TIL my wife is a child
Every house have this. And yours is very neetly organised. Congrats. May you “tiroir à bazar” stay this empty of small non identified cluter.
Pfft you call THAT an overstuffed drawer?
I bet you can open it without anything catching the backside of the cabinet, nerd.
We have long sticks and tools around in case something gets stuck in any drawer, I think last stuck draw was a one of the dinner trays sticking up and we couldnt open the drawer, before that was the cutlery drawer and a long knife sticking up XD
Dinner trays? Those things people used in the 70s to eat dinner infront of the TV?
Yeah, we still use them for different purposes, quite handy at times, can just wipe them over clean and put back in draw. I find them easy to carry food and so does my parents, both mum and I have autoimmune illnesses that affect us, dad has Parkinson’s so gets shakes and is often bit unsteady, so dinner trays help alot :o)
There are probably houses out there somewhere that do not have one of these, but I have never encountered one. They appear with the same frequency as 10 million dollar lottery tickets.
