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That's easy:

There isn’t a house in existence that doesn’t have one of these. All houses that exist have one of these by celestial mandate.

We have two OP. That drawer is as american as low taxes for the rich.

We don't have one, we have multiple

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

I have that drawer, a bit more full tho.

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

We have several of those drawers.

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.

You have the OCD strain of autism and so do your parents.

Yeah, we have this drawer. There are always going to be some tools you use in the kitchen enough to justify the purchase but not enough to be in any of the daily driver drawers. Honestly, this is not bad, we have a drawer that is the awkward necessary crap drawer for the awkward necessary crap drawer.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 one and my parents have one

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

I want to know how OP would like this drawer to look instead. Random kitchen utensils always seem to get shoved in a drawer like this

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

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

I'd be more inclined to call this a misc utensils drawer. I have one just like it, with many of the same items, but I also have a true "junk drawer", but it has anything but utensils in it. Like, batteries, screws, magnifying glass, fire starters, a deck of cards, etc. All of the shit that ends up near the kitchen that doesn't have a whole space dedicated to similar things, finds a home in the junk drawer.

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer

I do have it.

It's called a junk drawer and as far as I am aware it's an inevitability. However, I will say it's odd that you have utensils in there. Most junk drawers I've encountered are filled with random crap that rarely if ever gets used.

We have this drawer. Full of kitchen utensils that don't fit nicely into other drawers.

My parents did not have this drawer. Or at least, not nearly to this extent. Idk how they did it with a smaller kitchen than we have.

I have to sat that the additional of a scale to that drawer is a wild choice