I had way too many of these drawers π«
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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
Mine looks way worse. I would post a picture but it refuses to open. Must be the potatoe masher doing its thing again
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.
I have whole cabinets like this
I have no drawers that are not this drawer.
We have that drawer. Two of them in fact.
My wife got snap apart customizable drawer organizers and it's a big difference. She showed me the way.
Link?
Definitely got one of those.
Yes. Minus the scale, absolutely. Itβs the tools that too big for the utensil drawer but too small to take up shelf space in a cabinet.
This. The scale is the only issue here, but it's a big one lol
Youβre the third person to be opposed to the scale that Iβve seen in this thread. This drawer is exactly where the scale lives in my house. TBH, the OPβs drawer looks a lot like mine.
Edit: I found a fourth
Fifth here. That scale doesn't belong in the "awkwardly sized cooking utensils" drawer.
You see, there's a journey of self discovery that every household goes through, and during that journey, it's ok for the kitchen scale to go in different places. We've all been there, so no one is judging.
When the time is right, it will find its way to a shelf where it will live happily for the rest of its life.
Sixth. We keep the scale with baking supplies (measuring cups, flour, etc), since we mostly use it when making dough. Other than that, our drawer is nearly identical.
I jest about the severity of course, but for me the scale is just too far from the shape of everything else in the drawer to belong there.
I feel loony for expressing this thought at all.
It can be sorted quite nicely if you get an organiser division thingy. Even if you're only going to keep one thing in each section, it's nice to have each thing in its own place. The difficulty with that is remembering where it's supposed to be, and that it takes more space.
A little basket is suitable for keeping most of those things if you simply accept that them being in the same basket is actually the correct placement for them.
That one drawer won't look messy, if every drawer looks like this. *taps forehead *
What do you mean? This is organized! And I have such a drawer too. This is the collection of slightly large kitchen tools that are not large enough to place them in the cupboard.
Whether every family has this drawer or not, I wouldn't know, so I'm not very helpful with settling your argument. I'd bet, every family has this drawer though. Because everyone must have those kinds of utensils, and there's no other logical place to store them. Some people hang some of them on the wall, but even then, there are some that cannot be hung on the wall. Those go into this drawer.
Yes we all have it.
At my parents we had a similar drawer with miscellaneous stuff but it was organised so it looked somewhat tidy. Currently I don't have a drawer like this, cuz I have a tiny kitchen with only one drawer which is reserved for cutlery.
Yes, and as others have mentioned, the scale sits on the counter since it's delicate.
The only surprise is that your family didn't have this drawer, apparently?
Correct, we have this drawer. And what sucks is that it has been broken for about 20 years.
Looks good
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.
The junk drawer is a load bearing drawer. No home can exist without it.
At my parents' place, EVERY drawer is like that!
I wish my drawer was that empty.
Junk drawer. Yes, everyone has one.
We have a junk room. LOL.
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.
The "junk drawer" is supposed to have old receipts, loose batteries, the toy(s) you took from your kid when they threw it at your head, some vaguely kitchen-esque looking tool you got as a wedding gift but don't know what it is....crap like that.
That's just a normal large/specialty utensil drawer.
Every family afaik has at least one of these drawers. Just accept it and live your life.
We don't have one, we have multiple