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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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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

Exactly like in the picture

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Try being ADHD. Every drawer is a miscellaneous drawer!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

just take the pizza cutter out

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

My life is this drawer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Wife is always right

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 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.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Remove the scale, electronics don't belong in the misc food prep and niche baking implements drawer. Once you do that you'll easily recognize it as the food prep and niche baking implements drawer. The scale goes on a shelf, or in a cabinet next to the mixer/food proc/salad spinner.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Your house is this drawer. Think about it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

When my daughter was 4, she named it the “Don’t know where go drawer” and that’s how we’ve referred to it since.

I also have a man drawer.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Throw in birthday candles, rubber bands, and a few coins and you got yourself a proper junk drawer.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

We've got 2

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

Yep, I have a 'random shit' drawer too

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Pfft you call THAT an overstuffed drawer?

I bet you can open it without anything catching the backside of the cabinet, nerd.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I am proud to say that I don't have this drawer. I grew up in a house with this drawer and always hated it. Nothing new is added to the kitchen without considering the actual need and anything that goes unused for any length of time is getting reevaluated.

Could you un max out other areas? Eliminate duplicates elsewhere so things in this drawer could be moved to the newly made space?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep. The "junk drawer". Even in my house with my diagnosed OCD mom had one of these.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

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 ladels, and serving spoons, for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Nobody has this drawer. They're all lying to you, it's some big in-joke like that reddit thread where that person was asking how to switch from Spanish to English and everybody replied in Spanish. You should stand your ground and tell your wi--I can't even joke about the level of gaslighting that would entail. Everybody has this drawer.

I'll be honest though, the scales are a poor fit and probably make it way more cramped. You can stand those up sideways at the edge of a cupboard or in whatever place that you keep cutting boards, because they're a similar shape.

Depending on how often each thing is used, you could optimise by figuring out a hanging solution for some of them. That's quite a common thing, hanging under cupboards or on the backsplash part of the wall. Your wife might appreciate something like that as long as it's agreed on. You'll never totally get rid of this though.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Almost every home has a junk drawer or other junk container. Mine has multiple.

All that being said, I don't think I've seen a drawer as confusing as this.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Yes, every household in the developed world has a drawer like this. It's for things that you hardly need or never need, but might do, one day, probably (not).

Why it bothers me: in a more sane world, this stuff would be shared. Every community would have a junk tool shed - not every household of 4 people, or 2 people, or (increasingly) one person. It's reminiscent of that drill statistic: the average electric drill is used for 7 minutes in its lifetime. This is madness. Our planet is overflowing with junk. As a species we need to be smarter.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Aaaah, the "As seen on TV"+drawer! Yes we have that one.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 day ago

Every family has this drawer

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

That's essentially the "overflow" drawer. The only solution is to have less stuff... Or just live with it like i do lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I am ridiculously organized and clean. I do that 5 minutes of swift pickup/wipe a few times each day.

That said, still have this drawer. There is always a collection of items that don't seem to go "together" but they're always used. That's what this drawer is for.

I don't get the stock picture though. It's an obvious arrangement of tools that haven't even been used.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

Every house have this. And yours is very neetly organised. Congrats. May you "tiroir à bazar" stay this empty of small non identified cluter.

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