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.
Where is the ball of asparagus rubber bands?
Every household has a junk drawer. Be thankful you don’t have more than one.
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
This guy has it right. That’s basically my mom’s kitchen gadget drawer. Junk drawer has duct tape, 3 leftover zip ties, some loose AA batteries and the big screwdriver everyone seems to have
The junk drawer should contain nothing that touches food. We have a couple of those outside of the kitchen
100%.
Also, we have two of these.
The takeout chopsticks on the right must have escaped from the junk drawer/ packet drawer, looking for a better life.
They’re handy for cooking noodles though, but we keep them in a rubber banded bundle.
Of course, the junk drawer.
I don’t think I’ve ever been in a home without one.
i live alone and i have one
At least one. Usually more.
Every family has that drawer
Every family… I have TWO of them
Two families?
Who doesn’t?
This drawer is the solution. To everything…
…except getting something out of the drawer.
What sucks is when you end up super frustrated getting everything to fit, so you rip apart the drawer and put everything back in all nice and wow would you look at that you can fit everything and close it easily!
For two days. Tops.
If you have that problem, it means you really need 2 junk drawers, not one.
Empty the drawer into a box. Whenever you use a box item, it goes into a drawer. After a year, donate the box
Thanks ms kondo 😶🌫️
I have heard of people without a junk drawer.
Heard of.
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 expiredgone thanks for this threadOur home insurance policynope, 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.
Use the dishwasher cleaning tablet then cross it off the list too!
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.
Our catch-all drawer has screwdrivers, pliers and enough other tools to rebuild an engine, plus office supplies.
Jesus fuck, it’s fine.
Yeah this is some privileged American problems I wish I had.
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.
We have 3 such drawers, one in the kitchen, one in a common area and one in the laundry room.
Ah yes. The Doom Box.
Yours is actually much cleaner, but you cannot escape the drawer. We are all the drawer. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
