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.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 month ago

    Yep, this is a junk drawer at its nascent stage.

    My mother got into the pampered chef selling bulldonkey when I was young, and despite the dozens of items we got from them, only four really stood out, and she still has three of them. The ice cream scoop (how hard is it to make a shaped chunk of metal, after all), the kitchen shears (which were actually good quality), the slap-chop before there was a slap-chop brand (the one that is now missing/broken), and the kitchen organizer thing for the countertop: pic related. It was great for the longer shaped things, like some of what you have in the drawer. If the drawer bothers you that much, consider something that goes on the countertop or on the wall (or even a hanging pot organizer, which I love above a kitchen island.

    • @capital_sniff
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      11 month ago

      Was it the ice cream scoop with anti freeze in the handle to make scooping easier? My mom did all of those. Tupperware, pampered chef, and the basket one.

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        11 month ago

        That’s the one! Was it antifreeze? I always thought it was water based to take advantage of the phase-change temperature difference.

        • @capital_sniff
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          11 month ago

          12 year old me thought it was anti freeze, but I could be wrong I never opened one.