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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 problem is not the organization or lack thereof, the problem is that someone in your household buys too many niche specialized single-purpose kitchen tools. Wtf is that thing with the green handle?

I try to donate any kitchen tool that I haven't used in a year or two.

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

Pretty much every house i cooked at i found an equivalent of this drawer, even when they did other things differently. Maybe with the exception of my girlfriend, she's freakishly organized, but she has one massive drawer that includes silverware where somehow all the weird crap fits and it's organized,

Edit: I lied, I looked at her drawer again today, she has a subsection for random cluttered shit

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

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

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.

Every household, family or sole occupant, has this drawer. Sometimes there are more than one of these.

We have several of those drawers.

You have the OCD strain of autism and so do your parents.

Yeah, we have this drawer. There are always going to be some tools you use in the kitchen enough to justify the purchase but not enough to be in any of the daily driver drawers. Honestly, this is not bad, we have a drawer that is the awkward necessary crap drawer for the awkward necessary crap drawer.

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

I have that drawer, a bit more full tho.

It's the one where everything is oddly shaped and can't stack easily.

We have this drawer, maybe 2. My parents recently thinned and organized theirs. You can get cut-to-fit drawer Inserts if it bothers you.

It's the stuff drawer. Why are you like this?

Correct, we have this drawer. And what sucks is that it has been broken for about 20 years.

Yep.

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

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.

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

I have whole cabinets like this

My wife got snap apart customizable drawer organizers and it's a big difference. She showed me the way.

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

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

My work does one of those round robin steal it gift exchanges. One of my coworkers would just dump her junk drawer into a bag. It had the best stuff!

I do have it.

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.

We have this drawer. Full of kitchen utensils that don't fit nicely into other drawers.

My parents did not have this drawer. Or at least, not nearly to this extent. Idk how they did it with a smaller kitchen than we have.

I have to sat that the additional of a scale to that drawer is a wild choice

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

To say what others have said in a different way. Yes, in almost any categorisation system, you're gonna need to deal with some misc haha.

Where else could these things possibly go? (minus the scales, which in my opinion belong on some flat surface in a cupboard of countertop somewhere, since I use my scales all the time)

We have one of these drawers at home, also. I think your wife is right on this one friend.