Ask Lemmy

Exactly like in the picture

Nobody has this drawer. They're all lying to you, it's some big in-joke like that reddit thread where that person was asking how to switch from Spanish to English and everybody replied in Spanish. You should stand your ground and tell your wi--I can't even joke about the level of gaslighting that would entail. Everybody has this drawer.

I'll be honest though, the scales are a poor fit and probably make it way more cramped. You can stand those up sideways at the edge of a cupboard or in whatever place that you keep cutting boards, because they're a similar shape.

Depending on how often each thing is used, you could optimise by figuring out a hanging solution for some of them. That's quite a common thing, hanging under cupboards or on the backsplash part of the wall. Your wife might appreciate something like that as long as it's agreed on. You'll never totally get rid of this though.

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

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

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.

Every house has one.

Wife is always right

Yes. It's so common that it's been a well known joke in the UK for the last 16 years: The "Man" Drawer.

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

Not only do we have the "one", we each have one in our own space as well.

Every family has this drawer.

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

My life is this drawer.

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

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

I see enough squish things tools to designate it the squishing drawer.

Every single organization system will fail. When we try to put things into categories, there will always be some things that don't fit. That is why every organization scheme needs a miscellaneous category. That seems to be the purpose of this drawer, and that's great.

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.

We've got 2

I have an entire spare dresser that has nothing but these drawers

First thing I'd do is recycle that stupid plastic whatsit and the egg slicer that got used once.

I lack the space for a drawer like this, instead this exists as a plastic tub in the kitchen cabinet under the sink.

Yep, I have a 'random shit' drawer too

When my daughter was 4, she named it the “Don’t know where go drawer” and that’s how we’ve referred to it since.

I also have a man drawer.

We have two of them.

Yes, I'm pretty sure everyone has a drawer like that. One thing I'm missing (unless I'm just not looking hard enough) is scissors.

I have a large silverware drawer with a silverware tray. The area around the silverware tray is that drawer though

What is the green thing with the white blades?

Not in my house: We have like, 4 or 5 of that drawer. Between me and my wife we have a shitload of kitchen gadgets and accessories.

Aaaah, the "As seen on TV"+drawer! Yes we have that one.

I am ridiculously organized and clean. I do that 5 minutes of swift pickup/wipe a few times each day.

That said, still have this drawer. There is always a collection of items that don't seem to go "together" but they're always used. That's what this drawer is for.

I don't get the stock picture though. It's an obvious arrangement of tools that haven't even been used.

Why is it on the top. It should be second or third.

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.