Junk Drawer

Doesn't everyone have one? A catch all drawer in the kitchen where you throw all kinds of stuff? We only have two drawers in our tiny kitchen - we sacrificed 2 and 2 cupboards to get the dishwasher. One is for flat utensils (do not put spoons in there, they'll get super stuck!) and the other, well, it's a shit show. It's the junk drawer. 

Since we only have two drawers in our house, having one that is a huge mess isn't smart. My parents always had one junk drawer, but they had 6 drawers. One was a great big deep drawer and that was for bread. The junk drawer was the very bottom of a stack of four drawers.  Top drawer was silverware, next was mixing cups and spoons, then the giant bread drawer which I think had small electronic kitchen gadgets like the can opener and a mixer. The bread actually lived in a bread box on top of the dishwasher across the room. And at the very bottom there, the junk drawer. Mostly twine, and scissors, and twistie ties. We always had a ton of twistie ties. 

The other day Doug needed a corkscrew. Normally, we're all about the big black box of wine, but he bought a nice high-end beer that was in a corked bottle. He went to the junk drawer, where the bottle openers and corkscrews live, and could not find one. 

It's kind of a hot mess in there. 

I pulled it out and declared it reorganization time and set it on the dining table. 

Honestly. Who needs old duck sauce? I mean, I always feel guilty throwing these things out so for quite some time, they have just landed here. I don't use them. Doug might use the hot mustard but. Not really, no. When we order chinese food, I tell them every single time "No duck sauce or hot mustard, no white rice" but they send it all every single time.  I will use the soy sauce packets, but never the duck sauce or hot mustard. Ugh. It's all going out. Also note the fortune cookies. They actually stopped sending fortune cookies. Wonder why, it's one of my favorite parts of chinese food orders. Not sure who didn't want/eat those but. Goodbye. 

And the bottle caps.  A long time ago, my sister was going to make a birdhouse crafty thing she saw on pinterest which needed wine corks and bottle caps,so we saved her a giant assortment of bottle caps. Geoff has continued to save them, even though we gave her enough to make 2 or 5 bird houses. I am not planning on making a birdhouse. They can go. 

Then, there's the other stuff. The Las Vegas bottle opener is a good one, it's supposed to have a magnet on it but the magnet fell off. I can find a hook for it, and put it somewhere prominent in the kitchen. Cabot cheese slicer, okay. Keeping that. The little glass ramekin of can tabs, my neighbor collects them for some charity thing, so we can get those into a ziploc bag, and get them to her. Goodbye done okay. 

Plastic pre-wrapped utensils. Also from the chinese food. They send them even though I've asked them to stop. I have a small bag of them in the glove box of the car. They've come in handy in the past! 

And then it starts to look normal. Once I get the bulk of the sauce packets out of there, it'll start to become a drawer again! I can have a place to put the mixer beaters and some other things. And, the corkscrews (which were under all the shit). 

Goodbye everything. An after picture to come, I'm sure. Digits below. 

digits: 

exercise: 

blood glucose:
9am: 198
4:15pm: 160
10pm: 216

food:
coffee, water
11am: 2 eggs, a ton of spinach, shredded cheese... messy scramble.
12:30: turkey and 2 slices of bacon w/mayo on 2 slices of 647 wheat bread. Metformin
1:15: 2 pieces of cold bacon that Doug didn't eat for lunch. 
5:45pm: 3 pork chops, green beans, fingerling potatoes. Metformin+jardiance
6pm: 3 oatmeal craisin cookies
9:30pm: 2 babybel cheeses