I’m impressed! I used to have 3 - 1 metal, and two white plastic I got from a Tupperware party, IIRC. Finally tossed the metal ones on a ring - the first I bought back in the late 1970s when I was out on my own! - and the original white 1/2 tsp. got chewed up in the garbage disposal when I hadn’t realized it fell down the drain. So I use the 1/2 tsp from the 2nd set.
I’d just say the dividing line is that you have extra-extra. 
once again, feeling validated in my lifelong practice of having multiple sets of measuring cups.
Multiple sets of measuring cups can be invaluable. Something as easy as pancakes starts with a cup of flour and a cup of milk or buttermilk. Other recipes get way more complex with measurements. Even oatmeal requires water followed by oats, easy if you have a dry one cup measure.
Ditto for measuring spoons. I have a hodge podge from various sets. When I get a set on a chain or ring the first order of business is to toss the chain or ring. I will, however, confess to being the guy who measures in the palm of his hand.
I agree. It’s not that unusual to need a few Tbs measures, or a few 1 cup, 1/2 cup, or 1/4 cup measuring cups in the course of a day. You could hand wash them, but what if one is in a running dishwasher? It happens!
My daughter took one of two 1/4 cup measuring cups for cat food and said “you have another one!”.
I am a cat grandma.
Sound like you have a complicated relationship with the cats.
The cat is blessed!
oh, my. there’s the regular silverware drawer, which has tea spoons, soup spoons, salad forks, dinner forks, butter knives, steak knives, and a few slots in back for teeny tiny spoons, long iced-tea spoons, veggie peeler, and the kitchen scissors (which are just a regular ol’ pair of scissors, not specialty kitchen shears).
Then MY ‘misc’ drawer, where my instant read and probe thermometers, honing steel for the knives, various baking things only I ever use (dough scraper, bowl scraper, dough whisk, a couple of sizes of dishers, pizza wheel (seldom, but not NEVER, used), tongs (plastic and metal tipped), a bbq fork, offset spatulas…
Then there’s my partner’s misc. drawer, in which are kept stuff she uses, like gravy ladles, corn cob holders, manual mixers (the old crank egg-beaters) her mom’s rolling pin, the potato masher.
Then there are two big jugs/containers right next to the stove that hold all the various wood spoons, chopsticks, silicon scrapers and spatulas, various flippers, etc.
Then there are TWO ‘junk’ drawers. One contains mostly tools and maintence-related things. Screwdrivers, small hammer, utility knife, rubber feet and sticky felt pads for furntiture and appliances…
the other is for anything sticky. various tapes (electrical, masking, packing), glues (krazy, shoe-goo, 2 part epoxy, wood glue, etc) and, of course, the ubiquitous sewing kit which is NOT in one of those danish butter cookie tins (because that would mean a MUCH bigger kit that would go in the closet). Batteries also live here.
and then there’s the ‘office supplies’ drawer, where all the pens/pencils/post its/notepads/envelopes/stamps live.
I forgot, we also have a 4th drawer dedicated to potholders, scrubby sponges, small plastic bags & misc stuff.
This came up in a different site I frequent:
(We’re kinda level 0 with the occasional level 1 oasis )
Here in my Brooklyn apartment, kitchen storage is at a typical NY premium.
one drawer for silverware; paring knives also kept here (in plastic sheaths.)
one drawer (same size) for kitchen tools like spatulas. this is obviously wildly insufficient; overflow for rarely-used items is a plastic tote in my kitchen closet.
one even smaller drawer right beside the stove for non-kitchen scissors, some batteries, matches, and my laundry coins.
one drawer in my rollable butcher-block thing for Everything Else.
a knife block for knives. i should ditch this for a magnetic strip.
Tell me how long I’ve had these in various drawers, because I have no clue.
I manage to fill up all drawers in my reach.
After reading through this, I think I need an intervention! Not a hoarder by nature, but wow, do I have a lot of kitchen gadgets in a pretty small kitchen 
I have one of those clear, over the door shoe organizers mounted on the inside of my pantry door that holds a 100 or more little kitchen tools in the pockets. Measuring cups and spoons, peelers, thermometers, scoops, micro planes etc. If you name, I probably have it.
In a Manhattan studio I lived in for several years, the kitchen was just a cornet of the main space with an 18-inch stove, no counter space to speak of, and a single wide drawer to hold all the flatware and kitchen implements. This was 25 years ago, and I did have a lot less in the way of kitchen tools, but even then, it wasn’t exactly minimalist…
I have a good amount of small/shallow drawer space in my currrnt kitchen setup, and it’s all in use for kitchen implements except for the one drawer that holds scissors, packing tape, duct tape, and spare batteries. Next to the drawers that hold flatware and serving implements, there’s a drawer of randomness that has corkscrews, bottle openers, bottle stoppers, chopsticks, and random cheapy knives and such that have found that havre found their way into the kitchen.
On the cooking side, there’s a drawer with rolling pins, pastry brushed, and thermometers; one with measuring cups and spoons and silicone/rubber spatulas; one with whisks and some other random stuff; one with mixing spoons and spatulas; one with various sizes of microplane graters, vegetable peelers, kitchen shears and utility scissors, and jar grippy things, and also the spice drawer.
There are also stacking drawers shoved under the table that holds the food processor and stand mixer that hold their various attachments, plus can openers, bulkier kitchen things like strainers, juicers, hand-held mixer and immersion blender, canning accessories, and a lot of baking miscellany. It’s mostly pretty organized save for s couple of the drawers that accommodate real randomness.
I have the main drawer with the silverware and some serving spoons and forks. I have a very full drawer of things like rubber spatulas, wooden spoons, vegetable peelers, a pizza cutter, fish filet knife, metal spoons, etc. I also have another drawer with my lemon and lime squeezers, measuring spoons, measuring cups, metal straws, plastic straws, ravioli press, etc. The only non-kitchen things in that one are my long lighter, a pair of scissors, and some batteries. I also have a ceramic crock on the counter with my nylon cooking tools and metal tongs.
I am amazed by the high number of folk who keep things like spatulas, cooking spoons, knives, and rolling pins in drawers. Crocks of tools and even a knife block really do not encroach on the space I need for working.
Why? What you use on the regular might not be what I use.
I have an open galley kitchen. I have 3 antique enamelware kitchen tool containers on my kitchen counters. The milk pail exclusively holds wooden spoons (I collect hardwood spoons and use them ALL the time and have many more I don’t use that are for show). Another enamelware bucket holds 3 whisks, 5 or 6 sets of tongs, a meat mallet, an antique carving fork, and a couple of antique spiders (for show, more than anything).
And finally, the third bucket holds yet another whisk, 4 soft, bendable plastic flippers (eggs, pancakes, etc.) and a set of white hard melamine tools that includes a ladle, a flipper, a spaghetti spoon (which I never use), a slotted spoon, a melamine spider, and a shallower spoon that serves about half the ladle’s amount.
I also have a small French Moutarde de Meaux mustard crock that holds my measuring spoons and a set of butter/cheese spreaders, a small stoneware crock with a cork lid that holds my kosher salt, my butter keeper (not a bell, but long like a regular butter dish with a lid), and two containers that hold flour and sugar. A small drip coffee pot and a coffee grinder next to my fridge, my convection toaster oven takes up one corner of the counter next to my sink, and another corner is devoted to my cutting boards and the paper towel holder (because there’s no room under or over my sink).
I have no more room on my counters for a knife block (besides the fact I’ve always despised them). I keep my sharp knives in my silverware drawer in their own 8-slot knife drawer organizer, and I don’t use my rolling pin often enough to warrant it to be sitting in a container on my galley kitchen countertops.
I have out what I use on a daily basis, including multiples of an item so I can just toss a flipper or whisk into the dishwasher one day and grab another the next day.
We all work differently in our own kitchens, and what tools we use regularly are all different. ::shrug::
I live alone, and so only need to run the dishwasher about once a week. So, my drawer has multiple copies of some utensils: spatulas, tongs, measuring cups, slotted and non spoons, cutting boards, that I’ll use during the week and still have others to use.
I would prefer to keep high-use things handy in countertop crocks, but Mrs. ricepad prefers uncluttered counters, and this is not the hill on which I choose to die. Getting her to agree to an undercabinet knife block counts as a win.
This, but in my house, xxxxxxx is the coffee machine.
I agree my go to tools and yours are different, but there are some things, like knives, that we all use. If your set up doesn’t use crocks or knife blocks and it works for you, yay. Loose knives in a drawer sound dangerous, and all the in drawer knife holders I have seen were space hogs. Of course having only the knives we use a lot would be a huge help!
