Why didn't my mother warn me?

I have wondered about this too. It must be dust. ?

Mine is always full of crumbs and dust, but I don't know how or why!

The much missed Terry Pritchett had the Goddess Anoya, who presided over things that get stuck in kitchen drawers.

Perhaps she has an acolyte that goes around sprinkling those little bits of gubbins. Now what would she be called?

Where’s Misadventure when you need her......

Pratchett. Honestly I did type that.

It's one of life's mysteries mischief.

I cleaned out all of my kitchen cupboards and drawers before the lock down; I wish I'd waited.

If baking is done on the worktop over the cutlery drawer, there's your answer.

Smileless please feel free to help me, if you can actually get in my kitchen. I keep telling myself my kitchen will look worse before it gets better. I have to be in the mood- 3 cupboards are spotless- I have another 6 to tackle and then the drawers.

It infuriates me how my daughter (lives with me) just DOESN'T seem to see the grubby inside OR outside of cupboards/drawers. It's as if she has a filter. The muck drives me crazy!

I know exactly why our drawer gets dirty. My husband takes something from the drawer but doesn’t close it afterwards. He proceeds to work at the worktop (bending forward at an awkward angle) and crumbs fall into the open drawer. I don’t know how many times we have discussed this. He seems incapable of shutting drawers. I can map his movements around the house by the drawers left open (or partially open because when he makes a big effort, he manages to half close them).

It's that drawer with all the rubber bands, odd keys you have no idea which locks they're for, bits of paper with a phone number but no name and the pens that don't work that puzzle me. Who puts all that stuff in there? I'm certain it's not me!

The use of sugar soap in the kitchen is ideal for shifting surrounding particles of grease which dust etc lands on and makes it look worse. Far less elbow grease is needed. I cleaned out the oven the other week with it no problem and no chemical fumes that you'd get with oven cleaner.

Not forgetting batteries too Chewbacca that will be as dead as dodo's. Christmas cake decorations with the odd lump of icing sugar attached and bent birthday candles.

EV Thanks for that information I will do that next week,my oven needs a good old cleaning and as you know I don't have the use of my right arm for jobs like that so less elbow grease will be a godsend saves me getting in a "man who can" when all this is finished.x

urgh! your drawer sounds just like mine although mine isn't too bad at present.
What I can't explain is the grot on the stainless steel draining board, under the draining rack.
And worse, I found a cluster of clothes moths inside a thermos flask! The lid had been off and it was clean (apart from the unwelcome visitors)
Why were they there? what was attracting them?

Chewbacca have you ever watched Michael Macintyre on the subject of ‘the man draw’. We have a cellar like that!

In the country of Djelibeybi, Cephut is the God of cutlery. Perhaps he has something to do with it.

When we ran holiday gîtes in France the cutlery drawers had to be cleaned out every week they were so full of crumbs. (Maybe all the baguettes?)

I use a cloth with disinfectant on, to wipe them out

Similarly, how do draining racks, that only ever have clean things put in them, need cleaning?

I have an expanding inner liner for my cutlery drawer, why can I never get it back together after cleaning.?

My mother was not a good housekeeper. Her kitchen was less than spotless. In fact, when I had a party when they were away I cleaned the house BEFORE the party, not afterwards, and she didn't notice!

Our cutlery drawers are in a dresser so no worktop above and yet this happens.

How funny, I was wondering that the other day. It's a bit like putting 2 socks into the washing machine just to find that the Sock Goblin has pinched one.

My husband too, I've never seen him shut a drawer completely in over 50 years of marriage, possibly because he was kept in a drawer as a baby.