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I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

Your wife is correct.

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

I live alone and have this drawer.

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

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.

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

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.

You guys can open THE drawer?!

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

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.

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

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

Every household has a junk drawer. Be thankful you don't have more than one.

I do have it.

What?

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 regrettably also have this drawer.

Attempts at cleaning it usually end up with the drawer now being somewhere else, but it clings to life somehow.

I think they're just a fact of life at this point.

You could get rid of half of that stuff at least

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

This drawer is the solution. To everything...

These misc drawers are the best way to worship anoia, Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers (also luck).

You've lost this one, and if this was a hill you were prepared to die on I would get ready to lose a lot more.

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)

It's the miscellaneous utensil drawer. We have 2. Up top for common ones like can opener, corkscrew... big one on floor for the lesser used ones like rolling pin, flour sifter, hand mixer....

If you are arguing over this, don't. Not worth it because there's no better answer unless you have a millionaire mansion with a gazillion drawers

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

Every house has that drawer.

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.

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.

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

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

Every family has this drawer

Yes. Minus the scale, absolutely. It’s the tools that too big for the utensil drawer but too small to take up shelf space in a cabinet.

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.