The kitchen drawer

What big drawers you have Grandma. Having read the lists above, in our house those contents are spread across about 4 drawers.

The drawer we call the 'useful' drawer (after the the great big useful box on Play school!) contains

alan keys
2 sets of really small screw drivers, chisel and phillips head
String
Multimeter
Tiny glass bottles and plastic bags, suitable for samples
Tubes of various types of adhesive
Spare bits for appliances, not sure which
Torch
Metal tape measures, DIY for the use of
Stanley knife blades
Oil lamp wicks
Ultrasonic distance measurer
Black and Decker drill keys

In fact all the things DH wants to hand when he wants to do a fiddly little bit of making/doing . The Dremel is too big for the drawer so lives wherever he had it last - and that always causes problems.

And most of us have an awful lot of small things!

I have organised so much since our move but there are always so many bits that just don't seem to fit precisely anywhere.

Indinana that's exactly what I did when I moved....it's the small things that make us feel at home!

The minute you throw any of the useful bits and bobs ( junk) out you can be dead sure you will need it. Sods law.

I couldn't do without an 'itsy bitsy' drawer.

Each time we've moved I've taken the junk drawer out, tipped it into a plastic bin bag and, on arrival at the new house I've emptied it out into the chosen kitchen drawer. Makes me feel at home immediately

We have a junk house .....

Katek we inherited a trunk from DMiL it's full of photos waiting to be sorted. I think the oldest ones are c1970

Oh and the refurbished steamer trunk in the spare room! I had designs on that......,.

Would it were only a drawer!! DH has a man drawer, a double wall cupboard in the utility room, 2 drawers under the bed, the bottom drawer of his chest of drawers, 2 sheds, 3 plastic garden boxes and an entire single garage. I spend my life fending off incursions from his 'stuff'.

This is my junk drawer, in the living room dresser. Yours is so tidy, Nellie! I also have a whole 5 drawer chest in the spare bedroom, the contents list of which would fill a page on here!

Ours is called " the junk drawer" and contains much the same stuff on everyone's lists + one if those roller things to remove fluff...but with no sticky stuff left on it and some spare electrical fuses. When I was a child "that" drawer was called "the table drawer" as it was part of the kitchen table. My mum also had a cupboard she called the glory hole....containing everything she couldn't fit in the table drawer!

If we had a spare drawer in the kitchen it would be just as described. As we don't we have two boxes on a shelf for 'essential' man stuff!

Our drawer like that is called 'the drawer' and I recently sorted it out, so there!

Oh the shame I have TWOof those sorts of drawers. I have no idea of the finer details

Oops yes jane it is. Silly me

Is a draw the same as a drawer?

Clips for freezer bags
Birthday candles +holders
batteries, selection of
Funnel to fill salt dispenser in dishwasher
String
Multitool
Thing for cleaning venetian blinds
Salad servers
Nappy bags (no longer required)
Barbeque tongs
Insulating tape
Selotape
And more, that I cant remember without going to look.
MM 'man draw' sketch is hilarious, that's what we call ours. "Where's the ......." "in the man draw"

Wish I hadn't looked in it now.

Nellie I think your kitchen drawer wins the prize!? Not only does it contain a large and esoteric mix of objects which may ( or may not) come in handy, but it is beautifully displayed too.
My own kitchen drawer contains,
Plastic pegs,
Plasters and Germaline,
Tinfoil,
Toaster bags,
Twine and string,
Baking parchment
Tubes of Smarties ( for DGC)
A few candles,
A screwdriver,
And a lot of crumbs

And the red silicone pan scraper! How I missed the biggest object I don't know.

Several packs of plasters
Ibruprofen
A clicky gas lighter? we haven't needed that for ages
Meter box key.
Radiator keys.
A strip of emery board.
2 combs.
A badge saying 60 yrs young.(I am 68 next month.)
A wheel from the rack of our previous dishwasher.
2 felt tip markers.
A small mirror.
2 packs of liquid plant food which came with cut flowers.
A blunt gold pencil crayon.
A green plastic fish from one of those magnetic fishing games. I don't think we have the game now.
A piece of white plastic waiting in case we find out what it is.
A black luggage lable holder with a broken strap.
A largeish silicone washer from some jar or other
A red nozzle probably from a tube of glue.
A clip for holding food on the bars of a budgie cage.
A white hanger designed to hold the gathered up strings on rufflet tape. 1 1 Paper clip.
1 broken plastic ring which held the measuring spoons together.
one of those pull up plastic ties.
A plastic bag clip.
There green tube end for a small water sprayer which once went on a watering can.
Kitchen scissors.
Back door keys and the obligatory odd key that fits no known door.
A gin bottle lid.
The rye bread paddle off my bread maker.
A tiny tin of vaseline.
Two metal key rings hooked together.
A beer/wine bottle opener and keeper.

At our house we have a "driggle draw" for himself to put all his bits of clutter in. Stuff very similar to that listed above but including rubber bands, odd screw drivers (often broken), light bulbs and batteries (usually nor working effectively), lots and lots of keys. The keys are usually for doors or windows that we replaced years ago.

It's in the utility room and it also has:

Candles and nightlights
gardening gloves
a screwdriver (or two or three or more)
jars of curtain hooks
string
chargers (not sure what for)
a golf ball
a wet wipe - one of those from inflight service

No hair rollers though!

If you haven't already seen it try to watch Michael Macintyres 'Man Drawer' sketch - hilarious.