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We have like 3 junk drawers. The get filled with so much shit that we don't know what to do with that we just find another drawer

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

Most of my drawers are junk drawers. IDK how I find anything

you have too much stuff. time to minimalize!

Yes, all homes have this drawer. Only way to get rid of it is to move. Just leave it all behind.

Looks good

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

I have a large silverware drawer with a silverware tray. The area around the silverware tray is that drawer though

Yeah, I've got that drawer

In my house it’s a whole room instead of just a drawer.

You can at least make some compartments so it's not all jumbled together

But yes, I do have a couple of those drawers

Where else would you sort the strange kitchen tools?

They don't belong anywhere in particular, so they are clumped together.

I have an entire spare dresser that has nothing but these drawers

You lost this one.. They've even written songs about it....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJHgb5RB-4

I'm too anal about cleanliness and organization, my house typically doesn't have a drawer like this. My favorite mantra in the home, which my chronically disorganized wife is tired of hearing me repeat, is "a place for everything and everything in its place."

However. I inherited my childhood home when my dad passed away this year (my wife and I had already been living here for a few years, in a separate apartment in the house) and my dad had a junk drawer like this. As a matter of fact, my dad was extremely messy and almost every drawer in his house looks like this. It's probably the reason I'm so anal about organization in my life; having to grow up in a constantly messy home.

Growing up in this house, though, my family always had 2 drawers side-by-side in the kitchen which were always filled with random junk. They're still here. I haven't gotten to them yet. So yes, my current house has a couple junk drawers. But if I have my way, they will be organized and cleared out. If there's going to be any messy containers filled with miscellaneous junk in the house, it'll be boxes stored in the garage or basement - not a random drawer.

Yes. It's so common that it's been a well known joke in the UK for the last 16 years: The "Man" Drawer.

A junk drawer? ... yes, most houses have one.

We do

Your house is this drawer. Think about it.

I have a knife drawer with 2/3 of these objects in it and a measuring tool drawer witj 1/3 of these items. My junk drawer contains literally nothing in this drawer.

My mom has one of these, but we (my and my brother) don't live with her anymore. We (me and my gf) don't have one.

You might like a doom box: "didn't organise only moved". Put it in sight but make sure it's small enough that you can put it away when guests are over.