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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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[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Our catch-all drawer has screwdrivers, pliers and enough other tools to rebuild an engine, plus office supplies.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Only if you have extra drawer space to waste. Most beneficial would be to give a dedicated space to the scale

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

You're lucky you only have one, and it's only a single layer deep

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 12 points 4 hours ago

I honestly have multiple drawers like it.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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  • ~~Our home insurance policy~~ nope, 3y out of date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.

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

You need to run bleachbit on all that

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 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.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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.

just take the pizza cutter out

[–] kerrypacker@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

You have the OCD strain of autism and so do your parents.

[–] DevopsPalmer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 8 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.

[–] 4grams@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 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.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 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.

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 1 points 4 hours ago

Your house is this drawer. Think about it.

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 10 hours ago

Your wife is right mate, this drawer is what makes a house a home.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

It's futile to try and avoid the drawer, it's like trying to stop entropy itself.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago

Every house has one.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 65 points 14 hours ago

Every family has this drawer.

[–] quafeinum@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Exactly like in the picture

[–] DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world 3 points 7 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.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] somedev@aussie.zone 13 points 11 hours ago

Yep, have one. Its perfectly organised, because those things always go back in that drawer so that's just where they go.

[–] Shacktastic@lemy.lol 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 71 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

Everyone has this drawer, but this one is too organized. It appears to be 100% kitchen tools. You need to add a deck of playing cards, a bunch of soy sauce packets, a few half-used books of matches, a few take-out menus, and some loose keys in order to do this drawer properly.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

And a Pez dispenser, nerf bullets and misc batteries.

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[–] mdurell@lemmy.world 29 points 14 hours ago

Not to brag but I have two of these and a proper junk drawer.

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 hours ago
[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 14 points 12 hours ago

my family has had 2 of these since the 90s and now i have 2 of my own.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 5 points 10 hours ago

Wife is always right

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago

Yes, I have a drawer like that. And yes, every family has this drawer.

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Not only do we have the "one", we each have one in our own space as well.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Every single organization system will fail. When we try to put things into categories, there will always be some things that don't fit. That is why every organization scheme needs a miscellaneous category. That seems to be the purpose of this drawer, and that's great.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Try being ADHD. Every drawer is a miscellaneous drawer!

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