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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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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

To say what others have said in a different way. Yes, in almost any categorisation system, you're gonna need to deal with some misc haha.

Where else could these things possibly go? (minus the scales, which in my opinion belong on some flat surface in a cupboard of countertop somewhere, since I use my scales all the time)

We have one of these drawers at home, also. I think your wife is right on this one friend.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wife's right. This is an example of the pareto principle. 80% of your shit fits in 20% of the categories needed to properly organize your shit. 80% of the needed categories account for only 20% of your shit. 20% of your shit (and 80% of the needed categories) are in that drawer.

[–] canitendtherabbits@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dude the Pareto principal has started some shit in this household. We don’t even bring it up these days.

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[–] Sciaphobia@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago
[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Lennnny@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] bradd@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] don@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

There isn’t a house in existence that doesn’t have one of these. All houses that exist have one of these by celestial mandate.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

If you don’t have this drawer you simply don’t have drawers.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

This is true. It is the "occasional use kitchen drawer"

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We have this drawer. Full of kitchen utensils that don't fit nicely into other drawers.

My parents did not have this drawer. Or at least, not nearly to this extent. Idk how they did it with a smaller kitchen than we have.

I have to sat that the additional of a scale to that drawer is a wild choice

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not in the kitchen but I have a (very large) one for electronics and batteries and it's the worst. Tools and screws. Office supplies.

This kitchen one you could neat up a bit if it really annoys you. Put the scales in a cupboard upright against the side. Maybe get a nicer scale, that one looks naff. Trash the salad shears. What a terrible idea. Put the pizza / dough metal thingie on a wall mounted magnet for knives and stuff. Maybe put some of the other metal stuff there idk. Everything else is pretty small so you can put in dividers for that. The grater and ladle go in the same compartment.

Unless of course you think your wife should tidy up this drawer in which case you can just absolutely fuck off. Into the ocean. Die and get eaten by scavengers.

Edit: oh, that's a meat tenderiser, not a ladle. Everything else stands.

We have two OP. That drawer is as american as low taxes for the rich.

[–] Aermis@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

To an extent, we always had a junk drawer. Over the years it got smaller and more organized. Utinsels have an actual drawer for them all. So no pizza cutter in our junk drawer anymore. Almost everything in your picture has a spot for us.

Here's our junk drawer now.

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I also have this drawer

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

That one drawer won't look messy, if every drawer looks like this. *taps forehead *

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

This isn't a junk drawer, this is something different.

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[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

You could get rid of half of that stuff at least

[–] multicolorKnight@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

We have 3 of them: misc kitchen utensils and tools, misc containers, and misc stuff that does not even belong in the kitchen, but ends up there because that's the only drawers in the house that don't have clothes in them.

If you want to organize it some, you can build or buy dividers and split it up.

[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Ahh. The good ole junk drawer.

I've had one in every home I've lived, even when I was the minor.

Wife says the same.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yep, this is a junk drawer at its nascent stage.

My mother got into the pampered chef selling bulldonkey when I was young, and despite the dozens of items we got from them, only four really stood out, and she still has three of them. The ice cream scoop (how hard is it to make a shaped chunk of metal, after all), the kitchen shears (which were actually good quality), the slap-chop before there was a slap-chop brand (the one that is now missing/broken), and the kitchen organizer thing for the countertop: pic related. It was great for the longer shaped things, like some of what you have in the drawer. If the drawer bothers you that much, consider something that goes on the countertop or on the wall (or even a hanging pot organizer, which I love above a kitchen island.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 points 2 days ago

We have 2 drawers like that. What's the problem with it if you don't have a better place to put that shit?

[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

That's easy:

[–] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

We have four of these drawers. What helps is organization trays of different sizes and a junk cupboard.

Long skinny things fit here, curved things go here, bulky things get piled up in the cupboard.

Sorry OP - we all hate it too, but everyone has this. Your drawer doesn’t even look that bad. (You were able to OPEN it!)

[–] Lokoschade@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

At my parents we had a similar drawer with miscellaneous stuff but it was organised so it looked somewhat tidy. Currently I don't have a drawer like this, cuz I have a tiny kitchen with only one drawer which is reserved for cutlery.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yes. It's so common that it's been a well known joke in the UK for the last 16 years: The "Man" Drawer.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 4 points 2 days ago

It's the stuff drawer. Why are you like this?

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Mine is more organised (without dividers, similar stuff simply each has its own space) and still roughly looks like yours.

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