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Every family has this drawer

I live alone and have this drawer.

Your wife is correct.

Shit not only does ever house have this drawer, every restaurant I've ever worked in has a utensil pan like this.

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.

I do have it.

You guys can open THE drawer?!

Yes. Most kitchens have a junk drawer. This is often where the household hammer is kept, among other random things.

Compromise in marriage means not organizing everything to death and allowing your partner to maintain some jumbled spaces. A junk drawer is organized, out of sight chaos that still maintains a certain logic.

We’ve also floated the idea that not having a junk drawer in the kitchen may be a marker of psychopathy. I jest, but also not. Just know, junk drawers are common, diverse, and almost as expected as silverware drawers.

I by myself only have a single drawer(don't need/have more) but for my parents this is devinetively true. They have one for metal pieces, one for plastic pieces and one for cutlery. The fourth drawer is for all the stuff that isn't really needed that often or simply to big to be put into one of the other drawers.

You could get rid of half of that stuff at least

We have this drawer.

There are probably houses out there somewhere that do not have one of these, but I have never encountered one. They appear with the same frequency as 10 million dollar lottery tickets.

You could build our repurpose something like a silverware organiser, but fitted to the items in there.

But the true travesty: the scale should be easily accessible and in constant use tsk tsk

(We don't have such a drawer btw)

What?

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.

3d printed some Gridfinity stuff and fixed a couple of these drawers. The rest are under way.

I have 2 of these drawers. 1 in the kitchen and 1 in the garage.

I’ve got four of those.

Edit: wait, that’s a useful disorganized kitchen drawer. I’ve got two. I should do something about my four junk drawers, and today’s the day, goddammit!

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

Every house has that drawer.

This is true. It is the "occasional use kitchen drawer"

She's right. Always.

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

At first I was thinking I don't have this drawer, but I suppose I have a version of it. Anything that doesn't get used weekly goes into a misc. box that I store in the pantry to keep clutter out of drawers, e.g. icing spatula, fat separator, some baking items, etc.

My knives are upright on my counter and my scale is in my cabinet though, so that also frees up space. A few trays in your drawer might help?

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's easy:

I have this drawer.

The misc tools drawer? I have one that's overflowing. My parents have multiple drawers and cabinets of this.

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.

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!)

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

This drawer is the solution. To everything...

Every family has this drawer

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

Families only have one drawer like this?? How do they manage?