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.
Yours is actually much cleaner, but you cannot escape the drawer. We are all the drawer. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
A junk drawer? … yes, most houses have one.
Wow. Yours looks really clean. We have two of these drawers and they’re maxed out double as full.
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.
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.
Ah yes. The “nonsense drawer” as my youngest labeled it. It has stuck. In my parents family it was called the junk drawer.
I am proud to say that I don’t have this drawer. I grew up in a house with this drawer and always hated it. Nothing new is added to the kitchen without considering the actual need and anything that goes unused for any length of time is getting reevaluated.
Could you un max out other areas? Eliminate duplicates elsewhere so things in this drawer could be moved to the newly made space?
Yes, embrace the drawer
every family has this drawer. We have this drawer. The solution to having this drawer is having this drawer.
Pretty hard to avoid the drawer. Maybe find a new home for that scale (maybe sideways in a deep drawer?), throw a few rarely used tools into a ziploc bag, and introduce a caddy or two to corral the small stuff.
Exactly like in the picture
Your wife is right mate, this drawer is what makes a house a home.
Just to the left of the stove, and the goddamn potato masher always manages to wiggle its way to the top and block the drawer opening.
It’s also how some fruit is grown so leave the drawer ecosystem alone.
Every house has one.
Nobody has this drawer. They’re all lying to you, it’s some big in-joke like that reddit thread where that person was asking how to switch from Spanish to English and everybody replied in Spanish. You should stand your ground and tell your wi–I can’t even joke about the level of gaslighting that would entail. Everybody has this drawer.
I’ll be honest though, the scales are a poor fit and probably make it way more cramped. You can stand those up sideways at the edge of a cupboard or in whatever place that you keep cutting boards, because they’re a similar shape.
Depending on how often each thing is used, you could optimise by figuring out a hanging solution for some of them. That’s quite a common thing, hanging under cupboards or on the backsplash part of the wall. Your wife might appreciate something like that as long as it’s agreed on. You’ll never totally get rid of this though.
