Drawer organization -- more useful than beautiful

You know that quote that you see on some people's blogs -- the one from William Morris: "Have nothing in your houses that you do know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”

Well, I can see why so many quote him thus. There are some things that are just beautiful and not particularly useful, and vice versa; both have a place in the home. I try to do both; aesthetically pleasing useful objects can often be almost as satisfying as actual straight-up art. I'm a philistine that way.

Sometimes useful things are just useful. But order brings its own sense of peace, doesn't it? Here are my kitchen drawers -- I don't have too many, because this kitchen was put together back when people didn't have a ton of stuff, and that's probably a good thing.

First I will show you these drawers:
Starting from the left:

Here I keep my foils and wraps, and also, rubber bands, a sharpie (for marking ziploc bags), and twist ties in an old sandwich bag box. If you have a place to pop the rubber bands that come on veggies and other goodies, you will never buy another rubber band. But please don't store your rubber bands on doorknobs. It's not attractive.

Long ago, the Chief reworked this knife holder to fit in a narrow drawer (I don't have enough counter space for a knife block). Neither of us can remember what it was originally. I think it was meant to go the other (perpendicular) way, but it didn't work for me. Please don't jumble your knives in a drawer. It's dangerous and you will never have a sharp knife. Get a few good knives and store them properly and safely. This drawer is for anything "knifey" including butter knives, spreaders, can opener, etc.

This drawer is for miscellaneous spoons and "non-knifey" things. As I'm cooking I'm grabbing for a small spoon, a fork, a baster...here they all are. I bought these white organizers real cheap somewhere and they are really useful and flexible, as they come apart and sort of hook together.

These drawers aren't lovely, the way Regina's are here. They're not my dresser drawers, right? But they are useful.

Now these:
On top is the one with the "non-knifey" things, of course. The middle one:

Bread.

The bottom drawer: at the moment a lot of my containers are in the refrigerator, containing things. Usually this drawer is packed, and I keep bigger containers in the pantry.

Over on the far right (the really dumb part of my kitchen, I might add), we have the catch-all drawer. I wish I had a "before" of this one. It wasn't a good thing. But now, not only is it organized, it makes use of those random little containers that have lost their tops.

This one merits two pictures, I believe. See that container to the right of the hammer handle, holding the miscellaneous electrical things? If you move it, you will see:

Ta-da! Batteries.
And lastly, when you turn around to the island, you may open those drawers and see:


Silverware on the right (including serving pieces) and more silverware (soup spoons, extra knives, rarely used utensils that should be somewhere when the urge to make pot-stickers or such strikes, etc), and, of course, what every household simply must have, a supply of corks. (Wow, someone needs to somehow clean off the crud on the sides, leftover from evil loose cutting-board days.)

And that is truly all the drawers I have in my kitchen!

Now, please, girls, post something about your latest quilt, or hairdo, or something, so I can take a break from posting (note I don't say stop) about the kitchen. Please.