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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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[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have 2 of these drawers. 1 in the kitchen and 1 in the garage.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Most of my drawers are junk drawers. IDK how I find anything

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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!

[–] chuymatt@startrek.website 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

One basket is practically the same solution as one drawer.

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks 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.

just take the pizza cutter out

[–] Skates@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago

Your house is this drawer. Think about it.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] christov@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

A drawer full of emergency makeshift weapons? Yes. Also a junk drawer? Yes, more than one.

[–] EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is all of the drawers in our kitchen.

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

[–] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

you have too much stuff. time to minimalize!

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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).

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Where else would you sort the strange kitchen tools?

They don't belong anywhere in particular, so they are clumped together.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, I've got that drawer

[–] neo2478@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

In my house it’s a whole room instead of just a drawer.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

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