To think nobody truly does this with their cutlery?

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I've just seen a post on the "Very British Problems" Facebook page, which says that some people don't use a divider in their cutlery drawer, they just chuck everything in!

This can't be true.

YABU - Cutlery dividers are pointless and a cutlery free for all is the way forward.

YANBU - People who don't use a cutlery divider are disturbed and an intervention is required.

YANBU

drawer full of sporks is the galaxy brain approach

My brother does this. He lives alone. I don't know if the two are connected 😁

My son tried this at uni and I next day Amazon Primed him a cutlery tray.

Might work if you only have one of each item but otherwise you'd spend ages fishing out the wrong things.

My mother and my aunt keep cutlery in a pit on the side!

Meh. I grew up in a house that had everything bunged in a drawer any which way. It's really not that difficult to find what you need.

I have a cutlery divider but I still just chuck it all in there, they all sit in the divider but spoons forks and knives all in mixed compartments. Sorry!

We did this once, it was actually very efficient as you just dumped the entire cutlery holder from the dishwasher in there.

The minimal time taken to fish out what you needed was less than the time saved from sorting it into sections.

I miss my free spirited approach to cutlery now that I'm confined to an insert tray.

I don’t think it’s possible to function without a cutlery tray. I’m astounded there are people out there who live like this!

It really annoys me when, despite having cutlery dividers, dh invariably puts cutlery in the wrong compartment!!!? Does he not notice? Maybe he doesn’t care?

Borderline feral behaviour imo.

They never stay in their compartments so perhaps it's the way forward...

Due to a controlling twat exh I only recently got a cutlery tray. When our house was chaotic and he was ordering me and dc around he would stand all importantly organising the tray. When I left him I defiantly didn't buy one!

I have my knives forks and spoons in a pot on the bench or an a shelf. It means they don't need sorting and don't sit in bits of food and grub that always seem to accumulate in cutlery drawers. I wash the pot out fairly often. So I suppose I kind of do what you describe but for solid reasons!

The very first thread I ever posted on on here was
Knives Forks Spoons.

I had a friend who used to empty the cutlery rack straight into a drawer, it used to make me feel very anxious. But then I have adhd and am autistic and I cope by having a very strict routine and a very tidy cutlery drawer.

And what's worse, they don't put them in knives, forks, spoons order, left to right.

Your cutlery is alive? 🤔

I have a very long sideboard and my cutlery is all in dividers. Even down to different sized forks/knives/spoons all in their respective section!!

I DONT HAVE A DRAWER IN MY STUPID KITCHEN FOR CUTLERY. Not one 😭😭

I used to because our kitchen was so small that all crockery and cutlery lived in a drawer in a sideboard. The drawer was so small that I couldn’t find a divider to fit.

Tsk

The correct order is (L to R) teaspoons, spoons, forks, knives

Phillistine

I feel your pain. My last house had no drawers in the kitchen.

Ha yanbu

My mil does this.

I can't stand it. I tided it once and it was messy again the next time I went.

Drives me bonkers.