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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 😁)

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Longchampsachomp · 08/08/2024 09:00

I only have 1 small drawer in my kitchen so no, sadly. They're stacked in a pile in my under sink cupboard.

If I had plentiful drawers, I would have a tea towel drawer!

ColinRobinsonsFart · 08/08/2024 09:01

Yes - and it has to be tidy to fit them in. They live in a pull out basket above the tinfoil/clingfilm etc basket.

maplemaplesyrup · 08/08/2024 09:04

I love my tea towel drawer!

reallyworriedjobhunter · 08/08/2024 09:04

Yes. It's the small odd shaped drawer but a crucial feature of our kitchen.

Macaroni46 · 08/08/2024 09:04

Yes. Love my tea towel drawer. There is a Christmas section, special/favourite tea towels and everyday tea towels. All beautifully ironed and nearly folded.

MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira · 08/08/2024 09:06

My tea towel drawer also has a couple of kitchen aprons (one for me and one for ds) and a teacosy my gran knitted for me , where else would you keep this stuff?

Yousay55 · 08/08/2024 09:07

I spent a pleasant hour or two organising my tea towel drawer recently-as well as every drawer & cupboard in my house.

Gorgonemilezola · 08/08/2024 09:07

Absolutely. It's next to the drawer of doom (string, corkscrew, spare glass droplets for sitting room light, chopsticks, egg slicer, sharpening stone, 3 million IKEA bag closers, cleaver, tin opener, wooden skewers, metal skewers, salad servers and other random shit).

Yalta · 08/08/2024 09:08

I don’t own a tea towel

Sweetteaplease · 08/08/2024 09:08

Of course! With the kitchen hand towels!

Cocothecoconut · 08/08/2024 09:09

Nah
mine live in the airing cuboard to the side of the sheets and stuff

SatinHeart · 08/08/2024 09:10

Yes. Only because our kitchen (which came with the house) has a bazillion smallish drawers though. We had a baby wipes drawer for a while when DC were tiny.

ForGreyKoala · 08/08/2024 09:10

Yes, I've always had one.

Inertia · 08/08/2024 09:11

Why on earth would a kitchen drawer be a cause for hilarity? Your friend is odd- where does she keep hers?

Much like all the other perfectly normal people, my tea towels are in a kitchen drawer along with tablecloths and napkins.

caringcarer · 08/08/2024 09:14

Mines a bottom drawer in kitchen. Where else would people keep tea towels?

silentassassin · 08/08/2024 09:15

She couldn't stop laughing and said she'd never heard of such a thing 😳

Your friend is bloody weird. Why is a tea towel drawer hilarious? sure, not everyone might keep theirs specifically in a drawer, but I dont get why keeping household items in a drawer would cause her to laugh uncontrollably.

WTAF?

gardenmusic · 08/08/2024 09:17

Mine are used, washed and returned to the tea towel drawer.
The ones on the bottom never get used. I am not into tea towel rotation. They must have been in there for years.

Andthereitis · 08/08/2024 09:48

It's the top cupboard over the oven but over the years it's got full of cake tins and large trays that don't fit in the drawer underneath.

Dandeliontea123 · 08/08/2024 09:52

I have a cupboard with tea towels, spare towels in case of a flood, a Christmas tablecloth, cleaning cloths, and spare kitchen roll. It does look a mess at the moment though!

BeanCountingContinues · 08/08/2024 09:54

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,

😁

Justrolledmyeyesoutloud · 08/08/2024 09:55

Yes l have one - oven gloves live in there too!

MrsSkylerWhite · 08/08/2024 09:57

Yes. Where else are they supposed to go?

user98265567843 · 08/08/2024 09:58

Mine have a whole cupboard to themselves! Don't use kitchen roll much so use them to wipe and clean with too.

HansHolbein · 08/08/2024 09:59

Yes but they are in a cupboard in the kitchen.

CharliesAngles · 08/08/2024 10:05

@DeathByResponsibilities
@SloopyDoodle
I'm truly sorry for the loss of your tea towel drawers.
I feel sad for those homeless tea towels 😉

@itsgettingweird just for you, I counted 30 in the drawer and there were 6 in the wash.
Oh dear 😳
They definitely breed...

I'm not sure why she found it so funny! Maybe it was the wine we had over dinner 🤷‍♀️

Anyway, glad to hear of all the tea towel love.

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