I have one of “those” drawers in the kitchen.  The one where there are quite a few one-purpose items I rarely use.  Like a turkey baster.  Yep, that comes out for Thanksgiving, if I remember and my husband hasn’t already used a gravy ladle to do the same thing.  The potato masher gets a lot of use, as does the garlic press.  (I love my garlic press.)  The apple corer is another keeper as my hands hurt from the apple acid after about the 3rd apple into a 6+ apple pie recipe.  The dough cutter is helpful when I don’t want to use the chef’s knife to pick up stuff.

Then there are all the other things.  Biscuit cutters, which I’ve never used, and probably never will either.  I could probably ditch the wood skewers (didn’t remember I had them in there) and the egg slicer.  Way too many scrapers, including one that the head pops off of.  Three wire whisks.  That third is definitely too much.

This is another one of those places where I could pare down to things that are important.  If I do that enough in all the little spaces, I think I would be amazed at how much space I could reclaim.  Happily, I can usually leave things that are good for someone else in the kitchen at work with a nice “FREE” sticky note by them and they find new homes to either clutter or be useful in.  Not quite “pay it forward” but hopefully I’m cutting down some of the waste in my life while enhancing someone else’s.

What about you?  What’s in your “Everything Else” kitchen drawer and does it really need to be there anymore?