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Does anyone else have a tea towel drawer?

208 replies

CharliesAngles · 08/08/2024 08:33

Friend was over for dinner last night and asked for a fresh tea towel.
I said "sure, over there in the tea towel drawer".
She couldn't stop laughing and said she'd never heard of such a thing 😳

Anyone else have a whole drawer dedicated to just tea towels?

(Confession time - I LOVE tea towels 😁)

OP posts:
OppsUpsSide · 08/08/2024 08:38

Yes it’s also where I keep a screwdriver and a hammer for some reason. Where else would you keep tea towels?

Waxdrip · 08/08/2024 08:39

No. But I do have a tea towel shelf in one of the cupboards.

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CharliesAngles · 08/08/2024 08:39

Thank you all! That's just my point - where else would they live, right?!
I think there are people out there who only have a few and they just hang over the oven door and maybe by the sink.
But I have a lot.
And yes to dishcloths.
But napkins have their own drawer.
And don't get me started on table cloths.
I have a whole sideboard section dedicated to those! 😄

OP posts:
BlackCatsAreBrilliant · 08/08/2024 08:39

I am not the most domesticated person - but even I have a tea towel drawer.

sashh · 08/08/2024 08:40

Yes, but mine is tea towels and chopping boards.

Summertimer · 08/08/2024 08:40

My parents kept there’s in a drawer and I would do the same if I had enough drawers, instead they are in a basket on a shelf

LuluBlakey1 · 08/08/2024 08:41

Yes, it is where I keep the tea towels- where else would they be kept (along with dishcloths and other 'oddities' like spare chargers).

CocoDolphin · 08/08/2024 08:41

Yes. It has a few other bits and bobs in but it’s 90% tea towels. I love them and am lost when there isn’t one to hand in the kitchen!

BobnLen · 08/08/2024 08:43

Mine are in a storage basket in a cupboard

DancingLions · 08/08/2024 08:44

Yes I do. I fold then roll them so they're not on top of one another.
I have a small basket in one of the cupboards where I have cloths rolled in the same fashion.
I like being able to grab one as I need.

ladygindiva · 08/08/2024 08:44

Yes I have a tea towel drawer. Your friend has issues. Yanbu.

Turnitoffnonagain · 08/08/2024 08:46

Tea towel drawer is next to the what-not drawer. Your friend is obviously drawer deficient and needs help.

xxSideshowAuntSallyxx · 08/08/2024 08:49

I have a drawer, it also has the cloths and sponges in, plus batteries, a tape measure and first aid kit.

My mum keeps hers on a shelf under the sink.

itsgettingweird · 08/08/2024 08:49

I did once. My parents did.

But now they are folded up and piled on the window ledge. I have about 25 of them because - somehow - I manage to use about 5 a day 🤔😂

When they are all washed and folded they wouldn't fit in a drawer. By day 3 because I do a wash they would.

I would be interested to know if anyone else seems to use as many as I do!

Seymour5 · 08/08/2024 08:49

I only have a cutlery drawer in my tiny kitchen, but I have a tea towel drawer in the dining room next to it.

Ginmonkeyagain · 08/08/2024 08:50

I have a drawer with tea towels in it, but not a tea towel drawer. It also houses the tupperware, flasks, reusable cups, the rolling pin and mini blender. It is one of two pan drawers so massive.

Ginmonkeyagain · 08/08/2024 08:50

I have a drawer with tea towels in it, but not a tea towel drawer. It also houses the tupperware, flasks, reusable cups, the rolling pin and mini blender. It is one of two pan drawers so massive.

Ginmonkeyagain · 08/08/2024 08:51

Oops duplicate post for some reason!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 08/08/2024 08:51

Me. Where else can you keep them?

Though I should add that there are several lying on a spare room bed that have been waiting for a few weeks to be ironed (only because they then take up less space in the drawer.)
I will probably transfer them to the sofa bed in another spare room (aka dh’s lair) before I get around to ironing them, and that will be because of a guest needing to use the other bed.
I have too many tea towels!

ASaltyWoman · 08/08/2024 08:52

Yes. My tea towel drawer is proof that I'm an adult, like my mother. Sometimes I reinforce this by hiding a bar of good chocolate at the back of it.

Bobbotgegrinch · 08/08/2024 08:56

We used to have a tea towel drawer in the old house. In the new house they're in an absolutely huge drawer alongside other assorted crap.

TheChosenTwo · 08/08/2024 08:58

My Teatowels and dishcloths are on a shelf under the kitchen sink. They have their own space but not their own drawer but they have to live somewhere!

Bjorkdidit · 08/08/2024 08:58

Ours have to share with the cling film and foil, takeaway menus and those bags you get asking for old clothes.

I wouldn't call it a 'tea towel drawer' I'd probably say 'second drawer down under the hob'.

But I wouldn't find 'a tea towel drawer' funny or unusual Confused

ReadWithScepticism · 08/08/2024 08:58

Not a whole drawer, but a basket within a drawer.
They take advantage of the privacy to breed in there. I swear I have bought far fewer teatowels than I own. And there are strange hybrids and mutations, novelty teatowels from tourist destinations that don't exist. The Beatrix Potter Rat Sanctuary and such like,

Cattery · 08/08/2024 08:59

Yes in a drawer but it’s a wide drawer so has other stuff in it too