Aibu to no longer sort cutlery?

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I just put forks, knives & teaspoons all together. I no longer can be arsed to sort them. I put the spatulas etc in a jar by the cooker.

Aibu?

I have not sorted out my paperwork and mail for the past week yet. It’s just sitting there waiting to be done in my spare time. I’ve been working and busy with my family. I need to catch up tomorrow night when I’m alone at home. Generally speaking I use color coding to help me sort out the paperwork and mail.

Sausage, did you buy my house? The kitchen layout was exactly as you describe! My SIL came to visit and when she saw the kitchen she could only stand with her mouth open for a while. Eventually she managed to croak “It’s very...small...”
I think she used to subsequently refer to me as “Poor Born, with the tiny kitchen”, until I moved house.

Sausage where do I put my new sideboard in my small galley kitchen? Suggestions very welcome!

The sideboard that had the drawers was not in my tiny kitchen but in the dining room.
The kitchen was so small I could stand at the cooker and open every cupboard and reach every appliance without moving my feet.

borntobequiet, I had a kitchen like that too, was supposedly 9x6 feet as asserted confidently in the estate agent's lying particulars, but I soon realised they had rounded up the figures quite a bit.

It did have drawers though, a whole stack of them and the cutlery drawer attracted mysterious crumbs that periodically need to be herded out as they all seem to. I don't sweep crumbs into the drawers - where do they COME FROM?!

Oh and: unsorted cutlery drawers = an abomination against civilisation, so YABaBitU. (My socks are paired and folded and stacked in two rows in the sock drawer. I am #TeamTidy)

Oh and: unsorted cutlery drawers = an abomination against civilisation, so YABaBitU. (My socks are paired and folded and stacked in two rows in the sock drawer. I am #TeamTidy)

@UnleashTheBulsara I think I luffs you!

I have struggled for years (years) with the MN attitude to ironing, but to now say cutlery drawers don't need sorting... where will it all end?

So the cutlerys all in a jug - uncovered? Oooh what about the (looks left then right) and whispers
..the spiders.

and the dust......in your dinner..

In your tea.....
.

Disorganised cutlery? MADNESS.

When we get a big table I’m considering having a “jug” with cutlery and napkins in it rather than in a drawer.

My MIL had four daughters close together in age. She decided that sorting socks and knickers was going to drive her round the bend, and just put them all into a single big shared box for the girls to fight over find what they needed. What brilliance.

How on earth do you find anything?!

With your eyes

If they go in an upright pot do you put them handle up (in which case you can't see what is) or handle down (in which case surely you stab yourself on the knives and forktines)?

Sarecen let alone OP have ensured I won't sleep tonight; I'm hunched up in corner of spare room, clutching my knees, rocking back and forth - gibbering.

Ooh, I'm being won over to the dark side.
What heresy and witchcraft thought up this brilliantly subversive idea?
I don't sort the cooking implements, have always sorted cutlery, it's never occurred to me not to.
But now thinking more about it, I already don't iron, don't sort socks other than a his and hers pile, so why not just lob the cutlery in a drawer.
It's a big brave step, gotta think on it some more.

The very first thread I ever posted on was titled

Knives Forks Spoons

We were all so innocent then.

So enjoying this. Dh in charge of dishwasher (fine by me) in that he has designated separate areas of cutlery container for k, s and f (see what I did there) for ease of putting away but cooking utensils in big tray thing in a jumble in one of the cupboards. I too am for minimalist work tops but can appreciate the canister idea. But what if the cutlery isn't quite dry and it drips and over time and festering you inadvertently created a new life form that either causes a lingering horrible death or takes over the world. How would you feel then with your standard dropping missie?

Not only do I no longer sort my cutlery but there are two items that never never ever get put away. My potato peeler and my kitchen tongs. If they are not on the counter then they are Lost.. and that is bad news. I don't know why but if they go in a drawer I can no longer see them or find them. Peeler was once lost for weeks until OH asked why I was using a knife and then produced peeler from a drawer. He didn't even have to search for it!! How do people do that?

Threw the iron out 15 years ago. Fuck it.

KathDayKnight50M Too soon and too blunt. They're not ready for that. Baby steps, first we get them to accept the principle of misrule in the cutlery drawer, then we slowly - -s-l-o-w-l-y - and casually work in the concept of the tossing out of that Diabolical Instrument of Oppression, the iron.

I have never considered this but I’m a rebel, love saving time and hate putting cutlery away. That cutlery thing is going right now! Cheers, here’s to 5 seconds more free time a day 👍🏻

I’ve just done it! I’m going to pick that dishwasher cutlery caddy up and tip it into the drawer. So excited for my new life!

Baby steps, first we get them to accept the principle of misrule in the cutlery drawer, then we slowly - -s-l-o-w-l-y - and casually work in the concept of the tossing out of that Diabolical Instrument of Oppression, the iron

I thought I was open to new ideas and a flexible sort of gal..

Now I realise I'm just a set in my ways, closed mind, judgy pant wearing, pearl clutching, old harridan.

I'm not the person I thought I was.

Ignoramus, I feel the same. I'm so chaotic that I have bras and knickers in the same drawer, ffs, but the thought of knives, spoons and forks all jumbled up makes me shudder.

If you're leaving your cutlery out in a pot in the OPEN all the time aren't you worried that it gets darked on at night? the spiders and their mates could be rubbing their willies ALL over it!

and as for un-sorted drawers, I actually have a headahce coming on at the prospect of it all.