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.

  • DevopsPalmer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    Yours is actually much cleaner, but you cannot escape the drawer. We are all the drawer. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

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    2 hours ago

    Yes, every family has this drawer, and every family also has a member who despises this drawer and fruitlessly reorganizes, labels and makes it easy for everyone else but it takes one load of dishes and…

    What were we talking about again. Oh yeah, that’s normal.

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    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.

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    39 minutes ago

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

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    45 minutes ago

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

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    1 hour ago

    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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    1 hour 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.

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    3 hours ago

    every family has this drawer. We have this drawer. The solution to having this drawer is having this drawer.

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    4 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.