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I regrettably also have this drawer.

Attempts at cleaning it usually end up with the drawer now being somewhere else, but it clings to life somehow.

I think they're just a fact of life at this point.

Ours is a little more organized with dividers, but it doesn't look much better. Everyone I know has a drawer like that. I'd take the scale out and put it on a shelf. Scales are delicate.

PS, we have the exact same can opener, pizza roller, and grater as you guys.

Mine is more organised (without dividers, similar stuff simply each has its own space) and still roughly looks like yours.

We have a miscellaneous drawer of utensils and kitchen tools. Also another drawer of non-kitchen stuff that's just "the kitchen drawer" - screwdrivers, pliers, paper clips, rubber bands, magnets, ruler, magnifying glass.., not exactly "organized" but randomly deposited in compartments of an old generic drawer organizer so at least it's not just a pile. We just call it "the drawer".

Definitely got one of those.

Yes, and as others have mentioned, the scale sits on the counter since it's delicate.

These misc drawers are the best way to worship anoia, Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers (also luck).

What?

Team junk drawer. Where else do you keep your used batteries?

This is not a junk drawer, there are no coins or condiment packets.

This looks to be a kitchen accessories drawer although I'm unsure why you have a pill cutter in there.

Yes. I've tried to sort it, but there are too many small things that don't go anywhere else, so they are dumped together.

Trust me, that one is fine

The only surprise is that your family didn't have this drawer, apparently?

Bachelor here, and I do indeed have a random shit drawer. As did my family when I was growing up.

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.

Yep.

It's the miscellaneous utensil drawer. We have 2. Up top for common ones like can opener, corkscrew... big one on floor for the lesser used ones like rolling pin, flour sifter, hand mixer....

If you are arguing over this, don't. Not worth it because there's no better answer unless you have a millionaire mansion with a gazillion drawers

Ahh. The good ole junk drawer.

I've had one in every home I've lived, even when I was the minor.

Wife says the same.

My family has a junk home, not just a drawer :)

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

As others have said, this isn't even a junk drawer, this is the miscellaneous kitchen tools drawer. My homes have always had one of them plus an actual kunk drawer full of keys, batteries, loose pens and caps, tape, rubber bands, stamps, and lighters. This thing is organized and coherent and i jave no clue what your complaint is.

Yes absolutely

But not the scale tho

Junk drawer. Yes, everyone has one.

We have a junk room. LOL.

In my house it’s a whole room instead of just a drawer.

To an extent, we always had a junk drawer. Over the years it got smaller and more organized. Utinsels have an actual drawer for them all. So no pizza cutter in our junk drawer anymore. Almost everything in your picture has a spot for us.

Here's our junk drawer now.

You've lost this one, and if this was a hill you were prepared to die on I would get ready to lose a lot more.

Have you ever visited other people's kitchens? Everyone has that drawer.

Yeah, I've got that drawer

Where else would you sort the strange kitchen tools?

They don't belong anywhere in particular, so they are clumped together.

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

Yes, every family I've ever known has had a drawer with bulky oversized kitchen utensils and gadgets. The harder you try to organize these things, the more you will realize that you'd just end up with an entire drawer taken up by a single pizza cutter, garlic press, or zester. Theoretically, if you had enough storage space in your kitchen you could do that, but these things are used so infrequently that they either get shoved into one drawer which fully takes up that one space with disorganized chaos, or placed in a receptacle of some sort to sit on the countertop for when you need it, which is ugly and takes up then takes up the counter space instead.

Every household has a junk drawer. Be thankful you don't have more than one.

as others have said, "yes" most people have the misfit drawer. We always called it the "horrible drawer_ because ladles and can openers and things would often catch and make it hard to open. I say embrace it, everyone deserves love even if not everyone fits in perfectly

This drawer is the solution. To everything...

Of course I have that drawer. Why do you need a solution? What's the problem?