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.
My wife has serious ADHD, this is every drawer.
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.
I lack the space for a drawer like this, instead this exists as a plastic tub in the kitchen cabinet under the sink.
Hate to say it, but just about everyone I know has a junk drawer, myself included. Same as you with the other drawers, organized to the max, but the junk drawer will always be the junk drawer.
To an extent, we always had a junk drawer. Over the years it got smaller and more organized. Utinsels have an actual drawer for them all. So no pizza cutter in our junk drawer anymore. Almost everything in your picture has a spot for us.
Here’s our junk drawer now.
I have a knife drawer with 2/3 of these objects in it and a measuring tool drawer witj 1/3 of these items. My junk drawer contains literally nothing in this drawer.
That one drawer won’t look messy, if every drawer looks like this. *taps forehead *
Sorry OP, we’ve got two in our home.
Yes. It’s so common that it’s been a well known joke in the UK for the last 16 years: The “Man” Drawer.
Shit not only does ever house have this drawer, every restaurant I’ve ever worked in has a utensil pan like this.
Yes, I have a drawer like that. And yes, every family has this drawer.
Team junk drawer. Where else do you keep your used batteries?
I also have this drawer
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.
You can at least make some compartments so it’s not all jumbled together
But yes, I do have a couple of those drawers
