“THE” kitchen drawer

We don't have one. We reverted to my grandmother's principle years ago.

You know the one: put things away in their rightful places immediately you have finished using them.

It works! We can find things now!

Known in our family as “the drawer of death”, courtesy of my S-i-L.

I grew up with a “table drawer”, because that’s where it was. Now I have a “junk drawer” originally in the kitchen but in our current home it’s in the utility area of the garage. The “bonus” being it’s much bigger than its predecessor. I’d like to say there are no others drawers like it in my house……! 🤥

Oh boy, this is a reminder for me to declutter my crazy Kitchen Drawer, pantry, and pots & pans cupboard.

Since this is a holiday here, I will take the day off from doing that and enjoy some R&R, because that would be one of those four letter words - WORK!
USA Gundy

BTW, some of these drawers look too organized. I must be doing it all wrong. 😂

We called it the 'brivetting drawer' because you had to 'brivet' (is this word one we made up?) to find anything you remembered you'd put in there. When my dear brother, aged about four, was asked what he wanted for his birthday, he said, 'A brivetting drawer'. He was definitely a 'brivetter'.

Thanks to all of you! You have inspired me to clear out three drawers AND a large bowl which sits on top of a shelf unit. I don't know what is in the drawers any more. Time to find out

My dh has lots of drawers like that.

My junk drawer. It’s disappointingly not rammed to the gunnels as junk drawers should be but we’ve only been in this,house one year so there’s time for me to work on building it up to the proper standard.

grandtanteJE65

We don't have one. We reverted to my grandmother's principle years ago.

You know the one: put things away in their rightful places immediately you have finished using them.

It works! We can find things now!

My kitchen drawer is 'the rightful place'. I know what is in there and can easily find what I'm looking for.

I have a garage like that!

I have two in kitchen then there is desk drawer.... and the bowl on worktop for small 'bits'. I emptied it once into a lidded pot that lurks at back of a shelf and the bowl has refilled! ( curtain rings, lids, corks, pins, rubber, sellotape, measuring tape....)

Feeling guilty at having 3 such kitchen drawers I decided to de - clutter. I did dispose of one or two things some of which I don’t have a clue what they are but in the main I was changing things from one drawer to another. Still at least the spoons are all in the same drawer.

I seem to have a collection of chargers, I'm sure i haven't still got whatever they charge, but you can never be sure.......

My.mum in law had a claw hammer hammer and chisel in her kitchen drawer. I never knew why but when we helped clear the house when we moved her, we put the hammer and chisel elsewhere!

Having talked about my mum in law's drawer, my kitchen ones are out of bounds for my DIY husband and his "stuff". He has enough drawers in his workshop!

My garage boxes are just due to a terrible reluctance to ever throw anything away. The garage is a 'half way house' where they spend a few years, then the putting outside an attempt to have them adopted. If things are still outside after a week - I can bring myself to dump them in the dustbin.

A friend has a large wooden box under her kitchen table. If her husband or kids leave anything lying around - it goes in the box. The punishment is trying to find it again amongst all the clutter in there. (It wouldn't work here, though, as I'm the worst offender.)

Here’s ours:
Do I win the ‘messiest’ prize?
I have no idea what’s in it, except that I think there’s a tin somewhere with mini screwdrivers.

grandtante it' all very well saying everything in it's rightful place but the bobbles belong 150 miles away and dh no longer has a surgery. So their rightful place is in 'the drawer'.

Excellent junk drawer, Witzend. 👏 I’m sure you could cram a bit more in, though. 😂

We’ve about four of those junk drawers. Now and then I’ll do a clear out.The deep coffee table drawer next to me has all sorts in it such as recipe books, elastic bands, paper hankies, ciggies magazines, iPad, tape measures, old buttons, a hairbrush, a few catalogues and a couple of emergency bars of choc fruit and nut.

Marker pens for freezer bags, a giant blob of blutaq keeping two pens stuck together, pencils, batteries for my scales, plasters, box of matches, box of masks, an old I-phone case, a small roll of sellotape, a glue stick and a tube of superglue, part strip of paracetamol, string, letter opener, small container with keys for the shed, garage and back gates plus some other keys that I can't identify, a memory stick, lens wipes, self adhesive door stops, tape measure, charging cable, container of out of date vitamin supplements, calendar, pen-knife, paediatric medicine syringes, a joke turd (?), half a packet of tissues, some loose self adhesive floor protectors, a drawstring toggle from a hoody, a local handyman booklet, an old book of Rosemary Conleys greatest guide to calories ...................... I could go on!

Nearly all my drawers are like that and worse.

I don't have one anymore. I had a kitchen renovation last year and had a good sort out and declutter, so my 'man drawer' (If you didn't get the 'man drawer' reference, you're obviously not a Michael McIntyre fan! Lol!), disappeared. Before that it would contain; dead and half dead batteries, old takeaway menus, charging cables, odd nuts and bolts, tubes of glue, spare change, tape measures, screwdrivers, almost empty painkiller foil packs, empty pens, broken pencils, a tennis ball, a gold ball, several golf tees, instruction leaflets, old postcards, odd bits of paper, and much, much more!

merlotgran

I no longer have a suitable draw as they’re all too deep so my bits and bobs get chucked in a redundant wooden fruit bowl which sits on a shelf in the broom cupboard.

I've got a tray on the work surface so all the mess is on display 😲
The drawers are full and quite tidy.