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Does every Australian household arrange their kitchen drawers the same?

Kitchen drawers

Births, deaths, taxes, and tea towels in the bottom drawer.

Walk into any kitchen in Australia and you can safely assume that if you need a fork, a spatula, or a tea towel, you’ll know exactly where to find them.

If your mind’s eye is checking the top drawer for cutlery, we’re right there with you. The second drawer is presumably your bigger kitchen utensils, right? The tongs, salad servers, the whisk you can never find, the potato masher that always jams in the drawers.

The third drawer is where things get a little dicey, we admit. Not all kitchens have more than three drawers so do you put the cling wrap or the tea towels third? It’s a real ‘Sophie’s Choice’ situation but we’re on the same page. We’re pretty much all on the same page, as it turns out.

A video by user @bogans___ has been making the rounds on Instagram that confirms the universal (or at least Australian) kitchen drawer system and the comments section is making us feel very seen.

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“Throw a set of birthday candles in with the glad wrap,” suggested one commenter.

Another very relatable comment read, “I knew what was coming every second of this video.”

One commenter even broke new grounds for divorce, revealing, “Not in my joint. Mrs put the tea towels in the bloody second drawer. Does my head in.”
Sir, are you ok?

The video struck such a chord that @bogans___ created a poll for viewers to cast their vote. Of 16.8k responses, 89 percent agreed that the cutlery-utensils-cling wrap-tea towel-method is the only way, and the other 11 percent were wrong.

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