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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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[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

I have heard of people without a junk drawer.

Heard of.

[-] GalacticTaterTot@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Of course, the junk drawer.

I don't think I've ever been in a home without one.

[-] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

i live alone and i have one

[-] Catfish@aussie.zone 26 points 1 day ago

Where is the ball of asparagus rubber bands?

[-] rkw_social@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

Empty the drawer into a box. Whenever you use a box item, it goes into a drawer. After a year, donate the box

[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

At least one. Usually more.

[-] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Every family has that drawer

Every family... I have TWO of them

[-] Hawanja@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I have multiple junk drawers. Like all of them.

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago

Yep, we have that drawer. Ours is much larger and much more full. My wife loves baking, which accounts for a lot of it - there's about 5 pie servers in there, for example, along with various spatulas of many sizes. There are also three ice cream scoops so the odds are good I'll have at least one that is clean when I need it. Lemon zester, spoons, all kinds of baking and cooking-related stuff. The rubber things you use to get stubborn jars open. I can't even think of what else is in there, but there's a lot.

This is separate from the drawer that has rarely-used knives (we have a knife block for the commonly used knives), cake decorating materials, and similar stuff.

And both of those are separate from the designated "junk drawer" that has random stuff like box cutters, can coozies, gift cards, coupons, etc.

[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 2 days ago

Every family has this drawer.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago

Everyone has this drawer, but this one is too organized. It appears to be 100% kitchen tools. You need to add a deck of playing cards, a bunch of soy sauce packets, a few half-used books of matches, a few take-out menus, and some loose keys in order to do this drawer properly.

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[-] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

We have 3 such drawers, one in the kitchen, one in a common area and one in the laundry room.

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[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago
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[-] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 2 days ago

Your wife is right mate, this drawer is what makes a house a home.

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Yes, I have the where-does-this-thing-go drawer, for food prep items that don't fit elsewhere, and also the junk drawer which includes things like

  • Lighter
  • Weird long plyers
  • Twine
  • Self-fusing rubber tape
  • Random rubber bands
  • Twist ties that came with electronics
  • A random assortment of sharpies in various states of abuse
  • A weird scissor thing with a blade at 90° to a flat piece of steel
  • Random Lego pieces
  • Batteries that are good but not in packaging
  • Hearing aid batteries (noone in our house has hearing aids)
  • A single 12"x18" piece of Scotch Brite
  • Matches
  • A pencil with the tip broken off
  • A pair of 1/2" Cast iron pipe 90° fittings
  • A key for a car that nobody can ID
  • The manual for the microwave
  • A bunch of pennies
  • ~~Coupons for McRibs that are expired~~ gone thanks for this thread
  • ~~Our home insurance policy~~ nope, 3y out of date
  • A replacement impeller for the fish tank
  • An iPod charger (FireWire)
  • An iPhone charger (usb)
  • 2 sets of analog headphones
  • A dishwasher cleaning tablet

So...there you go.

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[-] DevopsPalmer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 days ago

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

[-] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 14 points 2 days ago

I honestly have multiple drawers like it.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Our catch-all drawer has screwdrivers, pliers and enough other tools to rebuild an engine, plus office supplies.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Every house has one.

[-] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Solution: build a new cabinet with a bunch of drawers and put one item in each drawer

[-] mdurell@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

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

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 315 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Every household has a junk drawer. Be thankful you don't have more than one.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 177 points 3 days ago

This is not a junk drawer! This is a cooking utensil (mostly baking) that has no other good place drawer!

The junk drawer got like, loose screws and scotch tape and batteries and scrap paper and whatnot

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[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Pretty much every house i cooked at i found an equivalent of this drawer, even when they did other things differently. Maybe with the exception of my girlfriend, she's freakishly organized, but she has one massive drawer that includes silverware where somehow all the weird crap fits and it's organized,

Edit: I lied, I looked at her drawer again today, she has a subsection for random cluttered shit

[-] 4grams@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[-] sheridan@lemmy.world 84 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 days ago

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

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago

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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[-] recreationalcatheter@lemm.ee 63 points 3 days ago

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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[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 216 points 3 days ago

This drawer is the solution. To everything...

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[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 98 points 3 days ago

Every family has this drawer

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 63 points 3 days ago

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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[-] squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

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

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 147 points 3 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.

[-] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 15 points 2 days ago

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

[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

You're lucky you only have one, and it's only a single layer deep

[-] somedev@aussie.zone 13 points 2 days ago

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

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 131 points 3 days ago

Yes. Minus the scale, absolutely. It’s the tools that too big for the utensil drawer but too small to take up shelf space in a cabinet.

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[-] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

I sort of have 3 variations of this drawer. One is fully named “the junk drawer” and contains things like rubber bands, batteries, scissors, garden snips, things that are sort of odd one out in other spots, but I feel are still relevant to my kitchen. Then I have one that is this but specifically things used on the stove and for mixing. So that puts spatulas, whisks, and such into their own mess. Finally is the “kitchen gadgets” drawer which looks very similar to yours. No organizer tray because everything is odd shapes, but also honestly sees little enough use I don’t really mind digging through it.

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[-] caboose2006@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Every family has at least one packing drawer of course!

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days 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.

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 79 points 3 days ago

It's the miscellaneous utensil drawer. We have 2. Up top for common ones like can opener, corkscrew... big one on floor for the lesser used ones like rolling pin, flour sifter, hand mixer....

If you are arguing over this, don't. Not worth it because there's no better answer unless you have a millionaire mansion with a gazillion drawers

[-] irotsoma@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I have accessory drawers, but they have organizers in them and I never put sharp things just randomly strewn i n a drawer. I have some baskets with random stuff in them for like extra cotton balls, the other of a 2 pack of soap, and stuff like that which could be considered "junk drawers", but none of it is junk really. And I do have in my basement workbench a drawer that has random leftover parts from projects like screen spline, insulation spools, etc. That could definitely be called a junk drawer, but non of that is dangerous to reach in and grab, nor will any of the items damage each other when fumbling through them.

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