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I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

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.

If you already have a maxed out sharps drawer, then you probably don't actually need any of the knives in this drawer. Like how often do you actually use the pizza cutter? I just cut pizza with a chef knife. Or the egg cutter? How often is that used? Sometimes the answer is to go through all your drawers and see what can be tossed to make space for the things you actually do use.

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

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

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

We all have one . Mines right next to the oven so I have quick access to various things I use

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.

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

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.

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 also don't have that drawer, but I have a box next to the toolbox labeled "useful crap that aren't tools"

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.

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

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

I wish my drawer was that empty.

Every family has a junk drawer. Just accept it and move on in your life.

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

Every family has this drawer

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)

I had way too many of these drawers 🫠

Every house has that drawer.

Yes, everyone has this

The 3rd drawer down from the top

Definitely got one of those.

Yes absolutely

But not the scale tho

You could get rid of half of that stuff at least

Attempt at organizing said drawer of ours

Don't known, but that big green thing with the clamping white blades...do not put your dick in that.

Yeah it's a thing. I've made wood box type things to separate the drawer out and try to keep it slightly organised.

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.

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

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.

I don't get why it bothers you, well, maybe it's not a serious disagreement idk.

Yep, we all do. Although you might be going a little far in putting the food scale in there.

its the miscellaneous drawer, its normal, we have a whole misc cabinet.

Every family afaik has at least one of these drawers. Just accept it and live your life.

I have no drawers that are not this drawer.

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

Junk drawer. Yes, everyone has one.

We have a junk room. LOL.