A challenge

I have two kitchen drawers that are so filled with junk that they often won't close; it's a delicate dance to get everything in them "just so," so that the drawers will close. And today I got tired of dealing with them. I emptied both drawers, wiped out the bottoms, and put things back in a more organized fashion. Along the way, I discovered a few ... shall we say ... redundancies in my stock of kitchen utensils. It got so amusing that I started keeping a list of one drawer's contents.

• 1 electric can opener
• 1 pasta spoon
• 1 ladle
• 2 pizza cutters
• 2 corkscrews
• 1 bottle opener
• 6 spatulas
• 3 slotted spoons
• 1 spatula/slotted spoon hybrid
• 1 cake-tester (that's where it was!!)
• 3 pairs of tongs
• 1 broken pair of tongs
• 1 decorative wine cork
• 2 big meat forks (we haven't eaten meat in 7 years)
• 1 meat mallet (did I mention we haven't eaten meat in 7 years?)
• 1 cheese cutter

Seriously, who needs six spatulas or three slotted spoons?!?

So what's in your kitchen drawers? I challenge you to go through one kitchen drawer -- pick your messiest -- and then post a comment here (or in an extended post on your own blog) sharing some of the funniest things you found. (This is a fun exercise for your bathroom cabinets too. Once I discovered about 15 empty medicine bottles under Bobby's side of the sink.)

Happy cleaning!!