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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] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, everyone has such a drawer. But what is that green thing at the top? Something for baking?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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

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

Technically, mine isn't a drawer, it's a shoebox tucked under the coffee table, but yes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

This isn't a true junk drawer in my mind because it looks to be all cooking implements. I have a junk drawer, but it contains like rubber bands, rando pencils, gum, etc.

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

Every family without a gigantic kitchen has that drawer.

I have the contents of that drawer in about 4 drawers and 2 cabinets. I have so many cabinets, I don't even have things in some of them and I have instant pots, a tortilla maker and sourdough proofing tools

However, I do have an oversized drawer that has a l lot of stuff in there like the funnels and tenderizer, but it has no sharps in it, and no scale.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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] 2 points 2 days ago

We don't have one.

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

We have several of those drawers.

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

Think about it like Socrates, man. Of course there’s gonna be a category for things that don’t fit in any other categories.

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

Yes/no. We dont have a designated junk drawer, but theres one specific drawer we happen to throw random things into. I clean it out maybe twice a year during one of my adhd fueled hyper cleaning sessions.

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

I have one and my parents have one

[–] [email protected] 147 points 2 days ago

You've lost this one, and if this was a hill you were prepared to die on I would get ready to lose a lot more.

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

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Every home has that drawer. What is the problem that needs a solution?

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

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Consider a spring loaded drawer divider. Keeping everything from sloshing around can make a surprising amount of space.

Drawer with dividers

My drawer in the image used to be a nightmare. Everything used to move around and it would jam when opening sometimes. Adding dividers got it organized enough to leave a third of it free, which is now the rightmost section that's filled with tea.

It's been over a year and I still feel a small sense of joy when I open it sometimes. There's still messes of junk in the back left and right, but they stay put.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Sorry man but I have to side with your wife here. We have even one such junk drawer per room.

  • In the kitchen with scissors, jar opener, potato peeler, nut cracker, sticks, tooth picks...
  • In the living room with matches, candles, coasters, birthday decoration, fertilizer for house plants, ...
  • In the bedroom we even have one per person with protective gear for sports, single socks that have their partner missing, scarves, baseball cap, luggage straps, ...

Could go on with bathroom, laundry room etc. Junk drawers for the win!

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

This is very common. If you really must "solve" it, the solution world be a shadow box layout. You empty it, lay stuff down where you want it, then take a picture or trace the shapes onto paper. Then model and 3d print an insert to give everything a dedicated cutout or cut it from foam or mill it from wood. This is what folks do in workshops. I've never seen it for a kitchen large utensil drawer, but that's what to do if you must.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can understand just about everything in this drawer because I have a drawer that looks like that ...

What I don't understand is that lettuce knuckle duster thing .... were you planning on going to war with the vegetables?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The green thing, right? I have no idea but I need to know

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

I have several. It takes a few months before the order becomes chaos. I do know where to find my stuff though.

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

How did you get in my house!?

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Everyone has that, except for my parents, its not just a drawer, but the entire basement floor. Filled. With. Junk.

😕

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

We have essentially the same drawer but with no scale and more ladies, measuring spoons, etc.

I'd probably put that scale somewhere else since it's a precision device, and it can't be too healthy for it to live like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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] 2 points 2 days ago

I’d say that every house has a junk drawer, but I wouldn’t call this a junk drawer. It mostly looks like random kitchen tools. I guess you’re both right, in a way.

Maybe what you need is a wall-mounted rack to hold some of your other stuff without taking up valuable counter space. For example, I’ve heard people swear by magnetic knife holders. You can probably find magnetic tool holders at a hardware store for less than you’d find knife holders at a store that specializes in kitchen stuff.

Or maybe just get some hooks. Perhaps some little shelves. Whatever. The point is, make the stuff you use most often more accessible, and use the freed-up space in other drawers to clean out this drawer. Then turn it into a proper junk drawer, with shit like loose rubber bands, half~dried superglue, an awkwardly shaped pen from a real estate salesperson, and a tape measure that’s branded with the logo of an NFL team for some reason.

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

Yes everyone has this drawer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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 2 days ago

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

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

Instructions unclear. I now have a sink hole under my house.

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

We had one when I grew up. Now that I'm living elsewhere with my own family we don't; we have two.

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

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wife's right. This is an example of the pareto principle. 80% of your shit fits in 20% of the categories needed to properly organize your shit. 80% of the needed categories account for only 20% of your shit. 20% of your shit (and 80% of the needed categories) are in that drawer.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dude the Pareto principal has started some shit in this household. We don’t even bring it up these days.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The "junk drawer" is supposed to have old receipts, loose batteries, the toy(s) you took from your kid when they threw it at your head, some vaguely kitchen-esque looking tool you got as a wedding gift but don't know what it is....crap like that.

That's just a normal large/specialty utensil drawer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh we have like 2 of these easy but the junk drawer is for things that don’t touch food

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

So you have two junk drawers and this drawer. Welcome to the club my friend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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.

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