What is in your bedside drawers?

[LifeAdvice]

I recently got a new bedroom furniture set (new to me - passed down from family), and the bedside table have 3 fairly big drawers in each one. I am single, so I can use both.

Prior to now, my bedside table had one very small drawer. So having 6 bigger ones to use has me at a loss. A friend said she puts pillowcases in hers, another said PJs, but I have these in my linen cupboard (pillowcases) and dresser (pjs).

What does everyone else use multiple bedside drawers for? (I obviously get that one is v helpful for all the little things you might need at night!)

Mine are my main bedroom drawers.
Top drawer - underwear, hairbrush hankies, specs etc
2nd drawer - tshirts
3rd drawer - jumpers
Bottom drawer - jeans, thick tights, charging cables, shaver

Under bed drawer - swimwear

Stationery, books, ereader, hand cream and lip balm.

Socks and tights in the bottom drawers, and an assortment of stuff in the top one. Hand cream, lip balm, pens, lube, painkillers, and random crap.

I have 3 stuffed full!
Tissues
Toilet roll
tampons
Condoms
Cleanser
Toner
moisturiser
Cotton pads
Eye cream
Hand cream
Body lotion
Sudocrem
Bobbles
Pens
Notepad
Books
Vitamins
Chocolate
Hairdryer
Hairbrush
Scissors
Hand mirror
Nail cream
Night cream
Serum
Usually some receipts
Contact lenses
Painkillers
Sometimes a straw, teaspoon or Lego

Don't rush to fill them! They will fill with junk soon enough!

My thoughts exactly.

@LifeAdvice

I recently got a new bedroom furniture set (new to me - passed down from family), and the bedside table have 3 fairly big drawers in each one. I am single, so I can use both.

Prior to now, my bedside table had one very small drawer. So having 6 bigger ones to use has me at a loss. A friend said she puts pillowcases in hers, another said PJs, but I have these in my linen cupboard (pillowcases) and dresser (pjs).

What does everyone else use multiple bedside drawers for? (I obviously get that one is v helpful for all the little things you might need at night!)

@LifeAdvice snacks hehe

I use my bottom bedside drawer as a bin

Books to read
The DC’s red books
The DC’s Christmas stockings
A first edition of Alice in Wonderland in a fireproof box
Spare glasses
A T shirt that ds loved when he was 3 and I can’t bring myself to pass on - 10 years later!

The appliance manuals for everything in the house.
Batteries, adapter plugs , chargers
Thermal winter stuff , hats gloves
Summer stuff, hats, sunglasses
Sewing and mending gear.

Top drawer is bits and bobs
Second drawer is knickers
Third drawer is socks
Fourth drawer is bras

What we call the “sex drawer” vibrators, condoms, lube etc.
Then charging cables, lip balm.

I only have one so not much in it.

You could keep things such as books/kindle, medications, a candle and torch in case of a power cut, chargers for iPad/phone (I have both so need 2), remote control for TV, a pen and pad of paper (have lost count of the amount of times I've been in there and needed both when taking a call for instance), then sex related stuff (pill, condoms, toys), toiler roll/tissue, slippers, hair bobbles

Top drawer knickers and bras
Middle t-shirts that I sleep I
Bottom socks

Top drawer as lots of PP, night time bits including lavender oil, herbal sleep tablets, earphones, ear plugs, micropore.
One drawer with all hair stuff inc dryer, brushes, mousse.
One drawer all feet related so nail varnish collection, Vicks, woolly socks.
Bottom drawer a box of tissues, all clothes receipts, random birthday cards.

Top drawer is bits and pieces.
Second is underwear.
Third is socks.

DH’s is the same. We don’t have a chest of drawers as we have a wall of built in wardrobes but we do have a dressing table that contains make up, hair stuff etc.

I’m stuck for space until I move this month, so use mine for general storage:

Top drawer has health and beauty stuff like ibuprofen, hand cream, lube, pantyliners, eye masks etc. General stationery stuff for posting parcels.

Middle has lingerie BUT I would prefer a proper storage space. I have a lot and it doesn’t quite fit.

Bottom drawer has random stuff like old phones and chargers, birthday etc cards, old work id, my university lanyard, books etc. Again I would move this stuff elsewhere if I had the room.

I keep sex toys elsewhere! I also have a dressing table for all my beauty related products.

I keep the instruction manuals/warranty cards for everything in the house in mine too actually. Alongside stuff like my toothbrush carrying/charging case, the pinsentry bank devices, old loyalty cards etc.

Junk.

Err
vice vapo rub,
70% coco chocolate bar,
a book I got last Christmas and haven't read,
a book I've read many times but haven't read in over year,
some empty packets,
old mobile phone,
a bottle of gin,
another book,
old remote control,
bottle of witch hazel.
small empty box,
empty mobile phone box,
spare charger and other useless cables,
a load of old photos,
couple of pencils and a pen,
tissues and cotton wool,
tweezers

😏 maybe I should organise it

Crap generally , just sorted one out and don't know why I even kept some of it in first place

Top drawer-knickers and nail clippers
Middle drawer-bras and tights (I have few tights)
Bottom drawer-socks

Underwear, a couple of vibrators, condoms & lube. Plus various bits of crap like hair bobbles, Kirby grips, odd earrings and socks, ancient insulin pens that I’ve taken to bed one night that have ended up in there and never been seen again for ages and god only knows what else.

I realise I’m painting quite the picture here but the rest of my house is generally pretty tidy.