There’s always room for improvement

I once told the story on Twitter of how a friend helped me with a kitchen drawer that opened by itself. For some reason it always tried to slide open on its own. My friend advised putting a 5-kopek coin under the table leg. It helped. We con­cluded that solv­ing the prob­lem had cost us just 5 kopeks. Cheap, isn’t it?

Soon some­thing hap­pened, and the drawer started slid­ing out again, coin or no coin. I found what I think is an even more ele­gant solution. The kitchen towel is always lying around here and there, and I’ve never gotten around to giving it a hook. It turned out to be handy to hang the towel on that very drawer: the drawer stays shut and the towel has a job ;)

Why am I telling you this non­sense? There’s always a way to make some­thing a little bit better. Even if the pre­vi­ous solu­tion cost only 5 kopeks.