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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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[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 3 months 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.

[-] Fondots@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

The only reason I don't have such a drawer, is an overall lack of drawers in my house, don't really have one to spare to be a junk drawer.

Which is a damn shame because I could really use a drawer to throw some miscellaneous odds and hands that don't have any other designated place to live.

[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I wish I could open mine.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

We don't have one, we have multiple

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

I have that drawer, a bit more full tho.

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

[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months 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.

[-] Sciaphobia@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Shimitar@feddit.it 4 points 3 months ago

My family has a junk home, not just a drawer :)

[-] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

That's easy:

[-] bradd@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I'd be more inclined to call this a misc utensils drawer. I have one just like it, with many of the same items, but I also have a true "junk drawer", but it has anything but utensils in it. Like, batteries, screws, magnifying glass, fire starters, a deck of cards, etc. All of the shit that ends up near the kitchen that doesn't have a whole space dedicated to similar things, finds a home in the junk drawer.

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

We have two of them.

[-] don@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

There isn’t a house in existence that doesn’t have one of these. All houses that exist have one of these by celestial mandate.

[-] mykl@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

A messy drawer? There should be at least two: one for the kitchen and one for general.

[-] Mobiuthuselah@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

What is the green thing with the white blades?

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[-] ssfckdt 4 points 3 months ago

I have whole cabinets like this

[-] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago

Correct, we have this drawer. And what sucks is that it has been broken for about 20 years.

[-] Onionguy@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Have you ever visited other people's kitchens? Everyone has that drawer.

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

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

[-] bighatchester@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

We all have one . Mines right next to the oven so I have quick access to various things I use

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

This isn't a junk drawer, this is something different.

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[-] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Every family has at least one packing drawer of course!

[-] DrQuickbeam@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months 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.

[-] vladmech@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

[-] UniversalFlamingo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

We have several of those drawers.

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

We don't have one.

If something isn't important enough to have a specific place, it isn't important enough to own.

[-] Today@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months 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!

[-] Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

How did you get in my house!?

(yes, we have this exact drawer, though I moved the scale to another drawer)

[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

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

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