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Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

The only reason I don't have such a drawer, is an overall lack of drawers in my house, don't really have one to spare to be a junk drawer.

Which is a damn shame because I could really use a drawer to throw some miscellaneous odds and hands that don't have any other designated place to live.

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

I think there are some sharp as well as blunt instruments that can be used to help resolving that disagreement.

The problem is not the organization or lack thereof, the problem is that someone in your household buys too many niche specialized single-purpose kitchen tools. Wtf is that thing with the green handle?

I try to donate any kitchen tool that I haven't used in a year or two.

I have that drawer, a bit more full tho.

It's the one where everything is oddly shaped and can't stack easily.

That's easy:

It's the stuff drawer. Why are you like this?

A messy drawer? There should be at least two: one for the kitchen and one for general.

We have four of these drawers. What helps is organization trays of different sizes and a junk cupboard.

Long skinny things fit here, curved things go here, bulky things get piled up in the cupboard.

Sorry OP - we all hate it too, but everyone has this. Your drawer doesn’t even look that bad. (You were able to OPEN it!)

I wish I could open mine.

This drawer is government issued when a house is built. Every family had this drawer. It is load bearing. Removing the contents of this drawer will cause irreparable damage to the house.

I lack the space for a drawer like this, instead this exists as a plastic tub in the kitchen cabinet under the sink.

Only if you have extra drawer space to waste. Most beneficial would be to give a dedicated space to the scale

Your junk drawer game is weak. We have 3 of them in the kitchen and the least bad of them is worse than that.

Every kitchen has this, but I'd work on your layout. You could put about 50% more gadgets in there.

Also, store the scale vertically somewhere for maximum efficiency

It's more of a "Junk Drawer" in my family. Just for things that have no relevant places or are easily categorized, but are important enough not to keep somewhere more out of the way. Always contains at least one item that makes it near impossible to open the drawer on first pull and requires manipulation to open. For my family, it's usually a hammer.

How did you get in my house!?

(yes, we have this exact drawer, though I moved the scale to another drawer)

We had one when I grew up. Now that I'm living elsewhere with my own family we don't; we have two.

Everyone has that, except for my parents, its not just a drawer, but the entire basement floor. Filled. With. Junk.

😕

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer

I have several. It takes a few months before the order becomes chaos. I do know where to find my stuff though.

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

I have one and my parents have one

My work does one of those round robin steal it gift exchanges. One of my coworkers would just dump her junk drawer into a bag. It had the best stuff!

I have no drawers but at least one box per room for this purpose

No drawer. Probably due to the kitchen layout, we don't have smaller drawers, so the tools and such go into their own container.

Yep.

im afraid that everyone has the forbidden drawer. the drawer that should never be opened except as a last ditch effort to find that one appliance that seems to elude you in every other drawer. you can try to destroy the drawer, but it will always come back in some form.

My wife got snap apart customizable drawer organizers and it's a big difference. She showed me the way.

I have whole cabinets like this