Drawer of Last Resort - What's in Yours?

Please, what's an egg chair?

wish my husband believed in a place for ANYTHING! if I inserted a cutlery tray he would say I was being controlling. thank goodness he has his shed..... (you can imagine!)

My Gran had one. It was always called the brivetting drawer. That's when you brivett around to find anything. My younger brother, asked what he would like for one of his birthdays, said he wanted a brivetting drawer.

I have put weight on lately, so as a last resort I have had to invest in larger drawers to fit my larger bottom in. ?

We have several ?

I don't exactly have a drawer, but I do have a box of all sorts of things - odd keys, clips, plugs, various fasteners and screws. Far to much to list. I call it it my Useful Box, (think Play School!) and do use it quite often.

We call this kitchen drawer the HOPE drawer, the last resort to find something!

I wish I was organised enough to put all those things in a drawer. They are scattered to the four winds from one end of my house to the other!

Sounds very similar to mine Mamissimo, when I moved recently I upended all the similar drawers into a very large see through Ikea plastic box, which is now full of such fascinating and wonderful items, including a purse containing baby teeth from both the boys and the dog, and keys to several clocks we have accumulated over the years. I will wind them all one day and see if they keep time! Meanwhile, I'm discovering things like rechargeable batteries, dog toys, pencil sharpeners and the odd Claires hair accessory....

This all reminds me of the Michael McIntire sketch called The Man Drawer. Check it out on YouTube, very funny and so true.

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My trouble is a make up drawer.My daughter used to work in Boots and trained as a make up artist.She bought many eye products from all the top brands and gave me palettes of shades and lipsticks. They look so nice and most are still unopened but it seems a sin to dump them. I no longer wear make up.

You could give them to the hygiene bank if you don't want them. Anything unopened is welcome and think how happy those items would make someone who can't afford them!

I have a drawer for batteries , drawing pins, paper clips balloons, string, notepads, envelopes and anything else that lies around including elastic bands fairy light bulbs, pencils and pens and it's not full yet.

Lexisgranny, Yes its a scraper you use when you defrost your freezer for scraping away the ice. I have one but i've never used it and it languishes in the kitchen drawer.

Time for an eye test - I read this as

"Drawers of last resort".

Made me think of school gym knickers. Quadruple gussets.

When we moved into a house in 1982, there was a drawer in the kitchen containing all kinds of stuff including 2 nit combs - yuk, yuk, yuk

If only there were just one!

The drawer of doom. It’s daunting but what you want is usually in there .

The one thing not in my 'go to' drawer is the radiator key I've been searching for for days!

We have both a Drawer of Doom and a Cupboard of Crap....
String, clips, rubber bands, lesser used gadgets, bamboo chopsticks and skewers, tape of various kinds, labels, preserving bits and pieces, recipe cuttings (although these days i try to take photos on my ipad). Old tea towels.
I could go on.

I've just been gazing into my kitchen mess drawer. In my head Tina Turner started singing:

"Do I love you? My oh my
If I lost you, would I cry?"

Answer's "NO" ... time for a chuck out.

I wish I only had a 1 drawer of tat. I have a bathroom unit with 9 baskets. They were tidy at first but now each basket is overflowing with stuff, either given as gifts or bought. I’ve lost count of the number of hard skin removing items I’ve got and I have loads of hair bands and hair products that I no longer use (now have cropped hair) and that’s just 2 baskets out of the 9. I need to be brutal and have a clear out - but what if I one day need something I’ve chucked!!

Whoops, forgot link:

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b007jthd?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

I've just listened to this on Radio 4 Extra. If you are a fan of Ian Carmichael you'll enjoy it. At the beginning he has time to kill and starts rummaging through his desk drawers. The list is hilarious.

The whole podcast had me laughing out loud and snorting, even though it's over 40 years old.

We also have a cutlery divider in the 'junk' drawer. Mostly organized, but sometimes there is overflow from one slot to another. Why do we have so many elastics and permanent markers?

I also have a section in my utensils drawer for odd little utensils...cherry pitter, citrus peeler, clips for closing bags of food, etc. That section seems to keep growing as well.

lexisgranny my first thought was that it was one of those spoon/scoops that you get in the lid of a tub of ice-cream, Ever the optimist!

I no longer have a bits drawer, having moved house. Now have to keep trotting out to the shed for screwdrivers and gardening string, to the bathroom for plasters and bedroom for tweezers. It was much easier when everything was in a drawer!