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.
I do not have that drawer. Mine is at least twice as full.
Sorry to say, your wife is right. Sorry to say, even if she is wrong she is right.
We do not have that drawer. My kitchen is tiny and only has 2 drawers. As a result, our entire apartment is a mess
Dear OP, the only odd thing about your drawer is that your garlic press in in there (unless this is your backup garlic press of course). In our household, we have it in the main cutlery drawer.
BTW, we have several such drawers spread out over our home: one in the kitchen, one in the living room, one in the home office and several in the garage.
I also don’t have that drawer, but I have a box next to the toolbox labeled “useful crap that aren’t tools”
We all have one . Mines right next to the oven so I have quick access to various things I use
Every family has a misc. drawer. Staplers, pens, rubber bands, paper clips. Lots of office supplies usually but it often will broaden out to all kinds of random crap.
That one is not exactly what I’d expect in the misc drawer but it’s not totally out of bounds?
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
My wife has serious ADHD, this is every drawer.
This is not a junk drawer. A junk drawer has flashlights, pocket knife, some tools, tape, bandaids, pens. This drawer doesn’t have anything like that.
This is the food prep drawer.
I have three food utensil drawers. Dining, serving, and prep.
If you have a small kitchen, maybe you would combine serve and prep utensils into one drawer.
Can opener, cheese grater, scale, rolling pin, whisks, mixer parts, and cooking knives, all go into drawer. But like the bread knife and cake knife go into serve drawer, along with labels, and serving spoons, for example.
I have this drawer.
It’s not a junk drawer.
It’s an irregular kitchen items drawer.
It’s just the cost of being someone who actually uses their kitchen. We have the garlic press, scissors, pizza cutter, bench scrapers, microplaners, thermometers, etc… in there. All useful things that fit poorly with other things, so they get a drawer all to themselves.
The junk drawer with batteries and twist ties is another drawer.
Every family has a junk drawer. Just accept it and move on in your life.
We have like 3 junk drawers. The get filled with so much shit that we don’t know what to do with that we just find another drawer
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.
Mine is definitely not a junk drawer since it contains things I regularly use and are all food or cooking related. I do also have a junk drawer.
This isn’t a junk drawer, this is something different.
The problem is not the organization or lack thereof, the problem is that someone in your household buys too many niche specialized single-purpose kitchen tools. Wtf is that thing with the green handle?
I try to donate any kitchen tool that I haven’t used in a year or two.
That’s essentially the “overflow” drawer. The only solution is to have less stuff… Or just live with it like i do lol
