My wife says every family has this drawer. I do not believe every family has this drawer. Do you have this drawer? Do you know a good solution to this drawer?
We have a silverware drawer, organized, maxed out. A sharps drawer, organized, maxed out. Ziplocs, organized, maxed out. Bbq tools and oven mitts, organized, maxed out. But all this shit has no particular category so fuck me right. I gotta have an awkward necessary crap drawer. Maybe I should post all my drawers and crowdsource me some sense into my kitchen.
Pfft you call THAT an overstuffed drawer?
I bet you can open it without anything catching the backside of the cabinet, nerd.
Throw in birthday candles, rubber bands, and a few coins and you got yourself a proper junk drawer.
I actually think they need one or more random sharp objects to almost cut yourself on, just to be on the safe side. Pizza cutters just aren’t sharp enough for this application.
Not only does everyone have one of these, they suffer from quantum entanglement.
Well this backfired on OP
Ah yes, the “junk” drawer. I have three! :-)
That’s not even a proper junk drawer, that’s all kitchen gadgets, but okay… Yes, in my experience, most households have a junk drawer.
You could build our repurpose something like a silverware organiser, but fitted to the items in there.
But the true travesty: the scale should be easily accessible and in constant use tsk tsk
(We don’t have such a drawer btw)
where’s the sauce packets?
Packet drawer, organized, maxed out
Your wife is correct.
We have four of these drawers. What helps is organization trays of different sizes and a junk cupboard.
Long skinny things fit here, curved things go here, bulky things get piled up in the cupboard.
Sorry OP - we all hate it too, but everyone has this. Your drawer doesn’t even look that bad. (You were able to OPEN it!)
This is true. It is the “occasional use kitchen drawer”
You guys can open THE drawer?!
That’s easy:
Yes, every household in the developed world has a drawer like this. It’s for things that you hardly need or never need, but might do, one day, probably (not).
Why it bothers me: in a more sane world, this stuff would be shared. Every community would have a junk tool shed - not every household of 4 people, or 2 people, or (increasingly) one person. It’s reminiscent of that drill statistic: the average electric drill is used for 7 minutes in its lifetime. This is madness. Our planet is overflowing with junk. As a species we need to be smarter.
How do people do without an electric drill? Why don’t they use it?!
In fairness 7 minutes with an electric drill will get you a lot of holes!
The problem is that it’s an incredibly inefficient use of resources. Most drills sit unplugged virtually the whole time. If we could only find a way to share them, we could have the same number of holes for a tiny fraction of the resources and the pollution. And as a bonus it might even strengthen local communities, which would be another obvious win. IMO the electric drill shows the dysfunction of consumer capitalism in microcosm.
the average electric drill is used for 7 minutes in its lifetime.
This smells like a fact pulled from someone’s ass. This article thinks so too.
Supposedly, supposedly. There were lots of links in Steffen’s post, but no source was provided for the assertion that the average power drill is used for a total of just six to twenty minutes during its lifetime. (I find the numbers highly suspicious. I wrote to Steffen asking for his source, but haven’t heard back.)
I use drills everyday for work and have one at home that doesn’t get used much because if I want to get handy I don’t want to drive to work to get one.
Transaction costs, in this context, might also be called pain-in-the-butt costs, and pain-in-the-butt costs don’t have to get very high before you say, “Screw it, I’m buying a drill.” You accept, even welcome, low levels of utilization in order to avoid onerous transaction costs. And, yes, you are being totally rational. Utilization isn’t everything.
I’m guessing that 6-20 minutes is like the actual time spent driving screws or drilling holes. Each one takes maybe a few seconds. 6-20 minutes in that case translates to hundreds of screws driven, even on the low end. So not nearly as worthless as the time makes it sound.
Sure, it’s a factoid. Maybe it’s 20 minutes. But we all know it’s very low. Seven minutes is an overestimate for my drill.
have one at home that doesn’t get used much because if I want to get handy I don’t want to drive to work to get one.
Yes, and it’s a problem. The possibility of borrowing one from your neighbor is passed over entirely and the alternative is to drive to get another one already in your possession.
All of this is completely unsustainable behavior at the scale of the planet. I suppose you’ll get in a huff and take this personally but I really am talking about all of us. As I said, I have a drill myself and bought it for exactly the reasons you cited. I just think we could all do better.
I also have this drawer
