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

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.

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.

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

Pfft you call THAT an overstuffed drawer?

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

Every family has this drawer.

Every single person does not have this drawer.

Every child has this for every drawer.

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

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

Looks perfectly fine. Ours is the second drawer though. Top one is for cuttlery

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

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

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

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

Well this backfired on OP

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.

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

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.

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.

I do have it.

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

where's the sauce packets?

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.

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

I by myself only have a single drawer(don't need/have more) but for my parents this is devinetively true. They have one for metal pieces, one for plastic pieces and one for cutlery. The fourth drawer is for all the stuff that isn't really needed that often or simply to big to be put into one of the other drawers.

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

I live alone and have this drawer.

Your wife is correct.

We have this drawer.

Every family has this drawer

You guys can open THE drawer?!

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 have 2 of these drawers. 1 in the kitchen and 1 in the garage.

Yes. Most kitchens have a junk drawer. This is often where the household hammer is kept, among other random things.

Compromise in marriage means not organizing everything to death and allowing your partner to maintain some jumbled spaces. A junk drawer is organized, out of sight chaos that still maintains a certain logic.

We’ve also floated the idea that not having a junk drawer in the kitchen may be a marker of psychopathy. I jest, but also not. Just know, junk drawers are common, diverse, and almost as expected as silverware drawers.