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Yep. The "junk drawer". Even in my house with my diagnosed OCD mom had one of these.

Almost every home has a junk drawer or other junk container. Mine has multiple.

All that being said, I don't think I've seen a drawer as confusing as this.

Of course, everyone has this drawer. It's called a junk drawer. Where else would you put this crap. What planet are you living on?

A junk/misc. drawer? Yes.

Remove the scale, electronics don't belong in the misc food prep and niche baking implements drawer. Once you do that you'll easily recognize it as the food prep and niche baking implements drawer. The scale goes on a shelf, or in a cabinet next to the mixer/food proc/salad spinner.

That's essentially the "overflow" drawer. The only solution is to have less stuff... Or just live with it like i do lol

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

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

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.

Sorry OP, we've got two in our home.

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.

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.

She's right. Always.

Every family has this drawer.

Every single person does not have this drawer.

Every child has this for every drawer.

Every house have this. And yours is very neetly organised. Congrats. May you "tiroir à bazar" stay this empty of small non identified cluter.

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

A drawer full of emergency makeshift weapons? Yes. Also a junk drawer? Yes, more than one.

Pfft you call THAT an overstuffed drawer?

I bet you can open it without anything catching the backside of the cabinet, nerd.

I have this drawer.

Throw in birthday candles, rubber bands, and a few coins and you got yourself a proper junk drawer.

I live alone and have this drawer.

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?

Not only does everyone have one of these, they suffer from quantum entanglement.

You could get rid of half of that stuff at least

I’m lucky that my drawer like this is actually inside a cutting board cupboard. The inconvenience helps give it purpose: awkward unnecessary crap we rarely use

Well this backfired on OP

Ah yes, the "junk" drawer. I have three! :-)

That's not even a proper junk drawer, that's all kitchen gadgets, but okay... Yes, in my experience, most households have a junk drawer.

you have too much stuff. time to minimalize!

where's the sauce packets?

Your wife is correct.

You guys can open THE 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

Yes, every household in the developed world has a drawer like this. It's for things that you hardly need or never need, but might do, one day, probably (not).

Why it bothers me: in a more sane world, this stuff would be shared. Every community would have a junk tool shed - not every household of 4 people, or 2 people, or (increasingly) one person. It's reminiscent of that drill statistic: the average electric drill is used for 7 minutes in its lifetime. This is madness. Our planet is overflowing with junk. As a species we need to be smarter.

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)

Proud junk drawer owner checking in.

That's easy: