What’s in your kitchen drawer?

It was only the cutlery drawer that got a sort out today btw

The ties had a sort last week!!
Just two are being thrown out.

I must sort out my socks

Well, I hope yours look better than mine, Jalima. I've managed to find homes for all the extra junk, and thrown a bag full of rubbish away, but there's still no system to speak of. It would help if DH would empty his tie drawer - the only one he's worn since he retired is his black one!

We've had a drawer sort today too.
It must be a Christmas thing

I've got my oven gloves on a towel rail tucked in between the sink and dishwasher. Right at the back, out of sight and out of mind.

I've been doing a bit of drawer sorting today - we've dismantled an old desk and need space to transfer all the stuff to (that's three drawers and three shelves worth). I've come to the conclusion that half the drawers in our house are just full of miscellaneous crap junk. Every single one has at least four or five old keys, for starters.

If we can't find something it's the first place to look before moving on to the drawers in the hall, before moving on to the drawers in the dining room, before moving on to the drawers in the sitting room.........Get the picture?????

I was once shamed into washing my oven gloves by a teenage grand son, not known for noticing anything at all, said 'yuck, this is revolting!'

Lord knows what everyone else thought by that stage.

We just have green clay underneath the few inches of topsoil CherryHatrick. I can't make a worktop out of that, although I could make some new crockery.

I have put the foil(s) and clinfilm in a box already, now DH is debating where to put it!

It's where to put slightly used oven gloves which really need a drawer of their own (or does everyone wash them after every use?).

We have a bottom drawer for (among others) all those bits of things where you're not quite sure what they are, but you might find you need them one day.
Though I did sort it out not long ago and put all the small batteries and tiddly little screwdrivers into a tin labelled Batteries and Small Screwdrivers.
Felt quite smug recently when I needed a very small screwdriver for a set of battery Snowman lights - a fiver in John Lewis! . (The things you buy when you have Gdcs that you'd never think of buying otherwise!).

Jalima we have two! I've seen storage ideas that use the inside of cupboard doors, but I always wonder if they end up pulling the hinges out of line.

Jalima1108 where I live, marble isn't posh, it is what the soil lies on top of! The rock outcrops in my garden are pink Alicante marble. Lemon juice eats into my worktops, spill orange juice and it leaves a mark, even Coke and vinegar splashes leave tell tale signs. I've really stopped caring now, as whoever buys the house will have to do a complete reform anyway, so it would be a waste of money to replace it.

We're going to try it. I found a spare mesh metal magazine box and DH thought it was a brilliant idea! I did confess that I saw it on 'the internet' but he still thinks it is my brilliant idea.

Thanks Wilma - I may even have two!

Now, I'm wondering if *Wilma's idea will work. I have spice racks on the inside of the tallest cupboard but there must be a space somewhere else.

I swear a lot CherryHatrick, especially when it involves clingfilm. When I was in Australia I saw some clingfilm in a box with its own little cutting device, you just whizzed it across and it cut neatly and nicely. Probably I should have brought home a suitcase full.
My kitchen is old too but without anything posh like genuine marble.

Now, can I find a spare bit of wall for the clingfilm and tinfoil

I am very jealous of those of you with modern kitchens; mine is the one that was installed when the house was built in 1973 and is covered in shiny black marble patterned Formica. The height of the worktops (grey genuine marble and a pig to keep respectable) and sink was designed to fit a hobbit, and when I stand in front of the sink I cannot touch the bottom of it without bending either back or knees.

Eglantine21 I am a Terry Pratchett fan and have made a supplication...

Smithy Clockwork dentures? Hmm
They came from a box of posh Christmas crackers and small children find them very amusing

Jalima1108 I keep my rolls in a wall mounted contrivance with built in teeth. I seem to be the only person who has the knack of making a clean partition, others tend to swear a lot.

We have those too!

Crumbs.

My stuff on rolls is in two wooden magazine boxes suspended from top of a bottom cupboard, in what would be dead space. Like this photo, but hanging inside from the top of the cupboard not the door.

My kitchen and bathroom are tiny, so I got loads of ideas on making the most of the space from YouTube.

My foil is second drawer down along with cling film, greaseproof paper, baking parchment, roasting tin liners. 3 sharpies, 2 rolls of freezer stickers and some zip lock bags - which I hate!

When I designed the cupboard layout our tiny kitchen, I tried to maximise the space and managed to forget to include any drawers. DH fitted it and did not notice either. We did find a narrow space where some tall plastic drawers (6 in total) could live which solved the problem and believe it or not, these are kept tidy. Before the revamp we had a kitchen drawer like everybody else!

'Man Drawer' is hilarious!

Thank you Jalima - i really must learn how to do that!

Very funny nanaK

Here it is:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gATgW8xyxH8