Drawer of Last Resort - What's in Yours?

Time for an eye test - I read this as

"Drawers of last resort".

Made me think of school gym knickers. Quadruple gussets.

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.

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.

kircubbin2000

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!

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

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....

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!

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

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 have several ?

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. ?

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.

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!)

Please, what's an egg chair?

Ah, the Black Hole drawer, or the Graveyard drawer, wherein things go to await the end of eternity or to be lost forever.
Yes, got one of them full of long disused tat, (sorry, things my husband says we should keep) but daren't throw any of it away in case he decides he needs it the day after disposal, and also a vegetable rack tucked away in a rarely visited corner, full of stuff too big to cram in the aforesaid Black Hole.

The last time I looked there was a glue stick, an ammonite from a beach in Dorset, a jewellers loupe, a stapler, two defunct mobile phones, a map distance marker, some bits of Lego, Allen keys, a wooden dragon whose tail is waiting to be reattached, a plastic bag full of miscellaneous stationery items and a box of ibuprofen. The drawer next door to it is even worse than that!

I'd need a weekend to list the contents of 3 drawers, 2 plastic boxes and a cupboard. My bedside drawers are also as bad, full of 'stuff'.

It is for de-icing the deep freeze!! I have several.

Lexisgranny yes a freezer tool. Scraper one end and the handle bit with foldup side sections makes a 'shute' for the water to drain neatly from bottom of compartment in to some shallow bowl.

I have the same objects that other people have mentioned.I have one of those organisers with little compartments,but it's not very good.I'm going to get a cutlery tray,as mentioned by calendargirl.

That was my first thought!

I remember someone posting a lanelled tin “Pieces of string too short to be useful” (a hoarder after my own heart!)

I love a “messy drawer” mines in the kitchen, it’s full of all sorts of stuff, batteries, old keys, receipts, sellotape, I could go on! The best is the roll of cling film which is stuck to the bottom of the drawer because the superglue leaked, I’ve cut most of the cling film off but there is a lovely lump of it left!!

Simple.... it's jammed with all the usual and useful bits and pieces that I've forgotten I have and so never look for.

Oh and the bits that aren't useful but which I put in the drawer in case they ever became so.

I’m glad it’s not just our house that has a drawer of shame. I think for those of us who were in the guides, it comes under the guise of Be Prepared. In the pocket of our blouses, we had to have a notebook, pencil, handkerchief, plaster, 2p for a public phone and a safety pin. As pre-pubescent girls, we had one side of our chests that was 32AA and the other side 32GG!