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If pedantry is coming to the fore.
I would argue that all examples so far are infact flatware drawers with a few bits of cutlery thrown in.
Definitely bone TJ don't panic.
Definitely bone TJ don’t panic.
Well, if I was tj I'd be panicking [insert shocked smilie here]
Apparently, carrier bags can be a filing system when tidying up. In our household, I’m absolutely methodical but an intermittent filer, my spouse is the opposite.
surely the heroin spoon is a bad sign ?
This one? 😮
Run!! Save yourself!!
Mine
think that pic will have the globalistas twitching
Wasn't expecting this to turn into Readers Spoons.
I'm going down to my Mum's in a couple of weeks, I might resurrect this thread with a picture of her cutlery drawer (not a euphemism) and you'll all be revealed as rank amateurs
I'm ****ing dreading it to be honest, the house gets worse with each visit... 🙁
Wasn’t expecting this to turn into Readers Spoons.
Pure filth...
Pure filth…
It's taken a tine for the worse.
It’s taken a tine for the worse.
Forking hell, that's a bad joke.
Mrsmidlife, a saint, goddess and Captain of Industry is almost without fault.
As is tradition, we have a plastic washing up bowl in the stainless steel sink. When she has finished with the scummy water and odds and sods of food waste therein, she tips the bowl so it rests on its side, thus removing 85% of the contents. I have suggested more than once over the last 39 or so years that it might be worth the effort of tipping it all the way until it’s empty. I’m pretty sure she’s going to get the hang of it soon.
Audio cassettes. She refuses to throw them out. We have no device for playing them. We haven't had one in all the time we've been together. We'll never own a device that can play them. Regardless, I'm forbidden from throwing them out so they live in the kitchen junk drawer. I live with the vain hope that some day in the future Erotica by Madonna, Circle In The Sand by Belinda Carlisle and the Philadelphia movie soundtrack suddenly become hugely valuable and we can retire early off the proceeds
Lids on jars that are half screwed-on but you don’t find out until the jam jar lands on the tiled kitchen floor.
Anyone else have to put up with this?
Ah I see you’re married to my MiL
Me "We haven't used it for twenty years"
Her "It may come in handy, put it in the shed"
Me "There's no room "
Her "Throw some rubbish out!"
Me "It's all your stuff "
Her " I don't ride bikes"
Oh, I remembered another.
Carrier bags. She can't throw them out. Our cupboard under the stairs is full of them.
Back when we met, she had a flat and in her bedroom was an absolutely enormous wardrobe. At least 3 x the size of a normal double wardrobe. Behind the wardrobe is where she kept plastic carrier bags. She'd jam them in the gap between the wardrobe and the wall.
Eventually she was selling her flat so we decided to decorate it and that involved moving the huge wardrobe. I started pulling out the plastic bags. Got all that I could reach but there were clearly more pushed way deeper behind the wardrobe. I managed to get the wardrobe moved and able to get properly in behind it where I discover that for the entire 10 years she's lived there, she's been constantly stuffing plastic carrier bags behind it. The entire back of this triple wardrobe is filled with plastic bags. The deepest stuffed ones have been in there so long they've actually started to decompose. How long does a plastic bag have to be in existence before it decomposes!?!? I must've filled 20+ black bin bags with smaller plastic bags.
Nowadays the plastic bags are gone but she hordes reusable bags under the stairs. The loft is also full of them.
I'm not allowed to throw them out.
"Ovaltine"
I think that sums up where 20 years of STW has brought us. Thanks for the insight Matt.
That's not a patina, thats a heroin spoon.
In the interst of transparency, feel free to rate my cuttlery tray...
I'm aware it needs work, but it's pretty decent compared to some of the atrocity on here.
I think mines a solid six out of ten.
@tracey ...
Youv'e put knives into a tray in a drawer... on this basis, we can never be friends.
But let it be known, I don't hold it against you. It's not your fault.
In the interst of transparency, feel free to rate my cuttlery tray…
I’m aware it needs work, but it’s pretty decent compared to some of the atrocity on here.
I think mines a solid six out of ten.
I can't give you that!
Spoons and forks are back to front! Who wants to pick them up by the business end, rather than the handle?
Same for the spatlier*.
And as any fule kno: The order should be K F S, not S K F.
2/10 and count yourself lucky 😉
*I know
If you open a tub of marg…take the tin foil bit off and put it in the recycling, it’s not needed, how **** hard can this be?
Scoop out the contents and throw them in the bin, then put the container in the recycling.
The toilet roll thing though – it really, really doesn’t matter. For anyone who thinks it does, the problem is entirely yours.
Actually, it does. Tho original patent for a paper toilet roll and holder show it was designed specifically for the free end of the roll to hang over the front, so that in the event of feces accidentally getting onto a person’s fingers, it wouldn’t transfer onto the wall, thus risking further contamination of other people’s finger touching the wall.
Also, the loose end is further away and touching the wall, so not so easy to get hold of, without scraping your fingernails across the wall.
It should be so blindingly obvious that a loose piece of paper hanging down several inches nearer than the bloody wall is just so much easier to grab hold of! Why is this so difficult to comprehend?
In the interst of transparency, feel free to rate my cuttlery tray…
I couldn't rate that.
That's a DNF. Your spoons and forks are in the wrong way around AND in completely nonsensical order. That's utter lunacy right there.
Please hand yourself in to the authorities.
The draining board is the battleground in our house. We have a little wire rack on there with slots that are clearly for resting plates in, then a flat bit on the side for cups and cutlery etc. If you load it properly you can probably get 15 to 20 plates and bowls etc all lined up, a few mugs, all the cutlery in the house, all drying properly and easily accessible. Mrs-g, and her mum when she is round both seem to approach the drying rack with the aim of covering up as much of its surface area as possible with as few things as possible, and then from there building a jenga tower of stuff. Because the plate holder bits are at the back of the rack, this tower will always slope towards the edge of the worktop so any sort of slippage will have things sliding off onto the floor and breaking. Bonus points for constructing a tower so precariously balanced that it can collapse and fall just by being breathed on.
Because in the past I've complained about this a million times it's no secret that it winds me up, so now when I'm attempting to surgically remove the item I need from the pile, in a rush cos whatever I'm cooking is burning, needs a stir, or whatever and something falls this is now taken as some sort of violent protest on my part where I'm dropping things on the floor on purpose.
Then having retrieved whatever it was I needed from the draining rack I give it a little wash cos it's never actually cleaned properly anyway.
I know someone who will stack a draining rack from the front. From the second plate onwards every item gets banged into the first one, so ends up with a heap of porcelain chips on the drainer. This is why we can't have nice things.
And when did TJ take a picture of our kitchen drawer?
Using a blunt 30 year old bread knife for ALL cutting tasks in the kitchen! How we haven't had a major severing, blood spurt type injury is beyond me (we do have several very sharp knives of sizes and shape that are appropriate to each task). Oh and ripping open bags of frozen veg and extracting the contents through a tiny hole and complaining when they are spilt all over the floor.
As it's now rate my kitchen drawer and i started the thread - here's ours! Critique away!... 🙂
That’s not a patina, thats a heroin spoon.
In the interst of transparency, feel free to rate my cuttlery tray…
I’m aware it needs work, but it’s pretty decent compared to some of the atrocity on here.
I think mines a solid six out of ten.
Its complete filth. Not even close to a 6/10. So many things wrong with it but, most critically, where are your teaspoons. You animal.
As is tradition, we have a plastic washing up bowl in the stainless steel sink.
People can largely do what they want IMO, but plastic washing bowls - as opposed to washing things under running water like the rest of the world manage is without exception; minging. I've no idea why it's still so popular in this country, but it's gross.
Opening frozen veg has just triggered me - MrsMC's disability affects her ability to open most packets - frozen veg, crisps, any sort of spherical confectionery.
She can use scissors of course.
Of course she doesn't. She grips the packet with her teeth, yanks it with her good hand and tears the packet open, sending the contents all over the room, while also leaving the packet incapable of being closed shut in a secure snd airtight manner.
People can largely do what they want IMO, but plastic washing bowls – as opposed to washing things under running water like the rest of the world manage is without exception; minging. I’ve no idea why it’s still so popular in this country, but it’s gross.
Same. We have one and I have no idea why, it's utterly baffling to me but I've conceded that particular battle for an easy life. My OH and people on here, when this has been raised before offer unconvincing arguments about saving water (you are in control of the tap). Or being able to move the bowl to use the tap (the kind of people who fill a bowl to 'soak' but never wash the contents).
They are gross, invariably become scratched in short order holding grime until they need replacing so more unnecessary plastic is produced. They limit the capacity so washing larger or awkward shaped items is more difficult. If you feel the need to put a washing up basin inside a perfectly serviceable washing up basin why stop there? Why not keep going in some Russian doll style? It's bonkers and I bet most people do it because they've always done it, without thinking 'why'?
If one washes up properly, then a washing up bowl is a must. Firstly one doesn't scratch the stainless steel sink, or stain the porcelain sink.
Wash the cleanest items first, then a bit of a rinse. It uses less water. Simple.
Gosh we all seem to own a lot of teaspoons. My posh cutlery is stored in a box (steak knives, cake forks etc), otherwise they get abused by being thrown from a distance into the cutlery drawer from the dishwasher.
Youv’e put knives into a tray in a drawer… on this basis, we can never be friends.
You beat me to it. This is one battle I have finally won, persuading her not to ram my nice knives somewhere "for safety," usually mashed up against something else metal like the slots in the draining rack.
She still puts table knifes blade-end down in the drainer "for safety" despite the forks being in the Newcastle position (tines side up) and thus far more dangerous should a small child suddenly develop the ability to leap four feet in the air and land face-first into a collection of slightly damp cutlery. However, I accept this as a reasonable compromise agreement if I don't have to spend half an hour every day trying to repair cutting edges.
And as any fule kno: The order should be K F S, not S K F.
We had this discussion on Disproportionally Cross. I posit that it doesn't matter so long as you maintain consistency.
Carrier bags. She can’t throw them out. Our cupboard under the stairs is full of them.
Bags For Life. They're for life alright, once they enter the house they never leave. We have more Bags For Life than your average supermarket, but when I go to Tesco I have to buy more of the $%^&ing things because there's none in the car. I leave used ones by the door to take out with me next time I go out, she (regular readers will notice a theme here) tidies them away somewhere. Where? The gods only know, "I haven't moved them!" Right, maybe we've got a polterhideygeist.
I’m not allowed to throw them out.
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
If one washes up properly, then a washing up bowl is a must. Firstly one doesn’t scratch the stainless steel sink, or stain the porcelain sink.
If you hold a thing under a running tap, it also doesn't get scratched by the sink, and after you've finished cleaning it, you can rinse it to get rid of the dirty water and soap. The rest of the world (I've surveyed them*) think that washing up bowls are minging, trust me.
* At one practice I worked at we had a united nations of GPs and nurses, I think only the UK and Irish GP had bowls (the Irish GP had used his since his under-grad days, and thought it might have been an inheritance even then...) the Europeans and rest of the world were both amazed and disgusted in equal measure
This thread is therapeutic for me.
Instead of covering things already mentioned I'll add a new one. Water temperature, the sainted Mrs Hoppy argues with herself over this but it's my problem. I turned the outlet temperature on the boiler down because it doesn't need to be scaldingly hot just to add cold in but apparently this is a problem because of potential legionalla build up in the tank (we have a combi boiler) no amount of explaining will persuade her so I turned it back up and the hot water was too hot despite being where it was before I now live a life of disapproving looks as I try to find a satisfactory temperature that needs to be lower than 46 but higher than 50.
Oh and Spoons, Forks then Knives in the drawer.
I try to find a satisfactory temperature that needs to be lower than 46 but higher than 50.
I had to check ours. I turned it down when we first moved in, you could've brewed up with it. The previous occupant "liked it warm" apparently. It's currently set at 50'C in "comfort mode" ie heat-on-demand. Target temp for the central heating is 70'C. These seem to be about right, you can run a bath too hot to get into and fill a washing-up bowl - erm, sink - with water hot enough to wash properly.
Knife , fork , spoon . Fine.
But there are obviously 2 sizes of spoons.
Large for shovelling cereal into ones month.
Small for yoghurt and removing tea bags from mugs .
So should it be knifes, fork , big spoon , little spoon.
Big spoon , knife , fork , little spoon .
Little spoon , knife , fork , big spoon?
Oh the dilemma
Can I just add - tipping half a mug of leftover coffee into the sink before putting the mug in the dishwasher. But not rinsing the coffee down the plughole, so I find dried coffee stains all over the sink a bit later.
Knife should be to the right of forks because that is how you hold them. Spoons I'm ambivalent about as long as it's to one side or the other, never in-between.
Knife should be to the right of forks because that is how you hold them.
There is some logic in that but you're still wrong. I think because it's always said "get the knives and forks" and never "get the forks and knives", the knife must always be to the left cos then you get knife > fork > spoon.
That is the order.
In much the same way that the number three shall be the number thou shall count.
Big spoon, little spoon, cardboard box?
I have the OP's problem (not his wife, obviously). The draining board rack fits best in one direction, wife must have it perpendicular to that. No words have ever been exchanged about that, even when I just wander up and reposition it right in front of her.
I have mentioned pouring coffee down the bathroom sink drain, couldn't deal with that one.
Would post a pic of the cutlery drawer, but since I just open it and pour the contents of the drying rack into it, then close it again, I think it might prove upsetting.
it’s always said “get the knives and forks”
Always? "Get the cutlery."
the knife must always be to the left cos then you get knife > fork > spoon.
But then you have to have to swap them over. For that logic to hold you'd also have the knife(s) on the left when place-setting.
I know you right-handed weirdos switch hands routinely with forks and spoons depending on whether you're also using a knife or not, but it makes no sense.