I have 2 of these drawers. 1 in the kitchen and 1 in the garage.
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Most of my drawers are junk drawers. IDK how I find anything
I’ve got four of those.
Edit: wait, that’s a useful disorganized kitchen drawer. I’ve got two. I should do something about my four junk drawers, and today’s the day, goddammit!
Ah yes. The “nonsense drawer” as my youngest labeled it. It has stuck. In my parents family it was called 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.
One basket is practically the same solution as one drawer.
We do
A junk drawer? ... yes, most houses have one.
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.
just take the pizza cutter out
Your house is this drawer. Think about it.
I’m lucky that my drawer like this is actually inside a cutting board cupboard. The inconvenience helps give it purpose: awkward unnecessary crap we rarely use
A drawer full of emergency makeshift weapons? Yes. Also a junk drawer? Yes, more than one.
This is all of the drawers in our kitchen.
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.
you have too much stuff. time to minimalize!
Bench / pastry scraper next to the end grain cutting board on counter (that's how I clean it most often). Microplane and pizza cutter (Italian chef knife) get hung. Funnel covers a teacup protecting it's rare use from excess dust / atomized oils in the kitchen. Garlic press is a waste of money when you have knife skills. -Citrus juicer likewise (cut 1/3 slabs around the core using the geometry to make squeezing efficient).
Looks good
Sepparate utensils into three groups. Prep and baking tools should be near the largest counter space. Cooking tools should be near the stove. Single use tools should be near the curb.
Where else would you sort the strange kitchen tools?
They don't belong anywhere in particular, so they are clumped together.
Yeah, I've got that drawer
In my house it’s a whole room instead of just a drawer.
I don't have this drawer. The ambiguous items just get a place assigned to them with their less ambiguous brethren. And some of these more three dimensional things I keep in a cabinet, like the funnels. I usually keep my scale out on the counter at all times because it's part of my coffee setup in addition to just baking/cooking