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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] 2 points 3 days ago

I do have it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I wish I could open mine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Every household, family or sole occupant, has this drawer. Sometimes there are more than one of these.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

We have this drawer, maybe 2. My parents recently thinned and organized theirs. You can get cut-to-fit drawer Inserts if it bothers you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

We have several of those drawers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I think there are some sharp as well as blunt instruments that can be used to help resolving that disagreement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

There are probably houses out there somewhere that do not have one of these, but I have never encountered one. They appear with the same frequency as 10 million dollar lottery tickets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I have this drawer, and also the junk drawer. This is the correct solution to 'uncommonly used tools of an awkward shape'

I'm sorry you had to find out this way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This drawer is government issued when a house is built. Every family had this drawer. It is load bearing. Removing the contents of this drawer will cause irreparable damage to the house.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I'm pretty sure ours still has junk in it from the last family that lived here.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I have that drawer, a bit more full tho.

It's the one where everything is oddly shaped and can't stack easily.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

She's right. Always.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

At first I was thinking I don't have this drawer, but I suppose I have a version of it. Anything that doesn't get used weekly goes into a misc. box that I store in the pantry to keep clutter out of drawers, e.g. icing spatula, fat separator, some baking items, etc.

My knives are upright on my counter and my scale is in my cabinet though, so that also frees up space. A few trays in your drawer might help?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I have this drawer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I have no drawers but at least one box per room for this purpose

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

im afraid that everyone has the forbidden drawer. the drawer that should never be opened except as a last ditch effort to find that one appliance that seems to elude you in every other drawer. you can try to destroy the drawer, but it will always come back in some form.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Proud junk drawer owner checking in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I have an entire spare dresser that has nothing but these drawers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

One drawer? We have house full of these, cupboards and a garage XD

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

No drawer. Probably due to the kitchen layout, we don't have smaller drawers, so the tools and such go into their own container.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

At my parents' place, EVERY drawer is like that!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have a large silverware drawer with a silverware tray. The area around the silverware tray is that drawer though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

My work does one of those round robin steal it gift exchanges. One of my coworkers would just dump her junk drawer into a bag. It had the best stuff!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Man, I wish I had the space for several junk drawers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I have one and my parents have one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Every kitchen has this, but I'd work on your layout. You could put about 50% more gadgets in there.

Also, store the scale vertically somewhere for maximum efficiency

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