How do I organise my 'everything (clutter)' drawer in the kitchen?

luxor4t

lillibet_dripping wrote: »

You don't!!! Everyone HAS to have a 'junk drawer' where all those little bits are put 'for safe keeping'.......

I don't have any drawers in my kitchen, so I don't have a 'junk drawer'. It was a deliberate choice when our kitchen units were replaced about 8 years back.


Hell on wheels for the first few weeks, after that I had places sorted for the 'bits' that used to accumulate - usually the bin


Stationery/ pens etc went into the desk in the sitting room.
Batteries live in a box next to the light bulbs etc on shelves in the cupboard under the stairs in the breakfast room.
Xmas cake decs, paper frill, birthday candles live in a box on the top shelf of the kitchen cupboard.
The preserving bits like wax discs, jam pot film circles, etc are in a box inside the preserving pan, in the bottom of a kitchen cupboard.
Rubber bands ended up in a ball by the telephone directories in the hallway - because the postman kept leaving nice new bands on the doorstep.
And so on .....

pollypenny

I've just sorted a drawer in the hall. It's in an old fashioned chest of drawers and house telephone directories etc.

The etc bit was overwhelming. I discovered four notebooks, blank as well as lots of note pads. There's two clothes brushes, which we forget about and odd watches, curtain rings and old diaries.

I had some Ikea drawer liners which I hadn't got round to using and they've worked well.

Haven't tackled the hell kitchen drawer yet, though.

Money_maker

As an alternative to bulldog clips, the big clips that some supermarkets use for shoes/kids shoes hold an awful lot of paper in each. And they can be hung up!

rosie383

Money_maker wrote: »

As an alternative to bulldog clips, the big clips that some supermarkets use for shoes/kids shoes hold an awful lot of paper in each. And they can be hung up!

I would never have thought of that. Brilliant. I just wish I had kept the one I chucked last week!
Good idea about cutting the ice cream tub to size. And also tetrapak too. I knew you guys would be full of great ideas that I just couldn't think of.

rosie383

Thanks to your genius idea I just had a brainwave of my own. I got an old trouser hanger and snapped off one end with clip still attached. It works brilliantly to hold my pieces of paper. For those of you who wish to copy my somewhat amazing idea (ahem), it does not work if you actually manage to slide the clip off the cross bar, doesn't have the same springiness to it. I'm sure that some of you amazing OSers have already done this before but I think it's the first original idea that I have ever had which has worked. So I'm chuffed.

meritaten

Cutlery trays work well too - I have one in my desk drawer which keeps all my Pens, pencils, staples, rulers,etc separate and accessible. and the drawer is quite shallow so it fits it really well (and it cost £1 in the poundshop)

Evil_Olive

rosie383 wrote: »

Thanks to your genius idea I just had a brainwave of my own. I got an old trouser hanger and snapped off one end with clip still attached. It works brilliantly to hold my pieces of paper. For those of you who wish to copy my somewhat amazing idea (ahem), it does not work if you actually manage to slide the clip off the cross bar, doesn't have the same springiness to it. I'm sure that some of you amazing OSers have already done this before but I think it's the first original idea that I have ever had which has worked. So I'm chuffed.

I also use a whole (unsnapped) clip type trouser hanger to hold a recipe book open at the relevant page when I'm cooking - I hang it from the handle of one of the wall cupboards over the work surface - keeps it right in front of my face but out of the mess and grease on the work surface

WantToBeSE

My friends and I all call this type of drawer a 'man drawer' because its full of crap

rosie383

↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ Love it ;-)

LameWolf

We used to have a "man drawer". Then we had the kitchen refitted, (only been putting that off for 10 years :eek: ) which gave me a grand excuse to get rid of the carp that DH had accumulated in there. (Do we really need 4 keys to the meter cupboards??):D

I have rehomed all the useful bits in sensible places, ditched the carp (a good 50% of the contents of the drawer) and there is no longer a man drawer. YAY! Result, methinks.:rotfl: