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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!)

What is the green thing with the white blades?

You could get rid of half of that stuff at least

A messy drawer? There should be at least two: one for the kitchen and one for general.

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

We have several of those drawers.

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.

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.

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

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.

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

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 lack the space for a drawer like this, instead this exists as a plastic tub in the kitchen cabinet under the sink.

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

Your junk drawer game is weak. We have 3 of them in the kitchen and the least bad of them is worse than that.

I have one of the drawers and I'd consider myself organized. I try to keep it organized with one of these rather large Ikea Stodja drawer organizers. I used to use silverware organizers but stumbled upon this thing, 14"x20". They come in other shapes and sizes too but is a lot handier than using a regular silverware organizer because the compartments are pretty large.

Pens and notepads/post-it notes in one, batteries and an Eneloop wall charger in another, hair ties/lip gloss/rubber bands in another, big compartment holds a roll of packing tape and various other tapes, and another slot has a couple pairs of scissors.

I'd recommend getting a larger organizer just so you can compartmentalize larger things together, something a silverware organizer usually can't accomplish

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 had one when I grew up. Now that I'm living elsewhere with my own family we don't; we have two.

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.

Everyone has that, except for my parents, its not just a drawer, but the entire basement floor. Filled. With. Junk.

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In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

Yep.

Every kitchen has this, but I'd work on your layout. You could put about 50% more gadgets in there.

Also, store the scale vertically somewhere for maximum efficiency

Every family has at least one packing drawer of course!

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

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

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!

Wow. Yours looks really clean. We have two of these drawers and they're maxed out double as full.

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.

I have several. It takes a few months before the order becomes chaos. I do know where to find my stuff though.

In reality you live in a junk drawer cozy. Just support the junk drawer and everything will probably be OK.

I sort of have 3 variations of this drawer. One is fully named “the junk drawer” and contains things like rubber bands, batteries, scissors, garden snips, things that are sort of odd one out in other spots, but I feel are still relevant to my kitchen. Then I have one that is this but specifically things used on the stove and for mixing. So that puts spatulas, whisks, and such into their own mess. Finally is the “kitchen gadgets” drawer which looks very similar to yours. No organizer tray because everything is odd shapes, but also honestly sees little enough use I don’t really mind digging through it.

I have one and my parents have one

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

Pretty hard to avoid the drawer. Maybe find a new home for that scale (maybe sideways in a deep drawer?), throw a few rarely used tools into a ziploc bag, and introduce a caddy or two to corral the small stuff.