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My wife says every family has this drawer. I do not believe every family has this drawer. Do you have this drawer? Do you know a good solution to this drawer?

We have a silverware drawer, organized, maxed out. A sharps drawer, organized, maxed out. Ziplocs, organized, maxed out. Bbq tools and oven mitts, organized, maxed out. But all this shit has no particular category so fuck me right. I gotta have an awkward necessary crap drawer. Maybe I should post all my drawers and crowdsource me some sense into my kitchen.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

Junk drawer. Yes, everyone has one.

We have a junk room. LOL.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

We have that drawer. Two of them in fact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

What do you mean? This is organized! And I have such a drawer too. This is the collection of slightly large kitchen tools that are not large enough to place them in the cupboard.

Whether every family has this drawer or not, I wouldn't know, so I'm not very helpful with settling your argument. I'd bet, every family has this drawer though. Because everyone must have those kinds of utensils, and there's no other logical place to store them. Some people hang some of them on the wall, but even then, there are some that cannot be hung on the wall. Those go into this drawer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I also have this drawer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

That's easy:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

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!)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Yes, and as others have mentioned, the scale sits on the counter since it's delicate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

We have 3 of them: misc kitchen utensils and tools, misc containers, and misc stuff that does not even belong in the kitchen, but ends up there because that's the only drawers in the house that don't have clothes in them.

If you want to organize it some, you can build or buy dividers and split it up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not in the kitchen but I have a (very large) one for electronics and batteries and it's the worst. Tools and screws. Office supplies.

This kitchen one you could neat up a bit if it really annoys you. Put the scales in a cupboard upright against the side. Maybe get a nicer scale, that one looks naff. Trash the salad shears. What a terrible idea. Put the pizza / dough metal thingie on a wall mounted magnet for knives and stuff. Maybe put some of the other metal stuff there idk. Everything else is pretty small so you can put in dividers for that. The grater and ladle go in the same compartment.

Unless of course you think your wife should tidy up this drawer in which case you can just absolutely fuck off. Into the ocean. Die and get eaten by scavengers.

Edit: oh, that's a meat tenderiser, not a ladle. Everything else stands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

That one drawer won't look messy, if every drawer looks like this. *taps forehead *

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Hate to say it, but just about everyone I know has a junk drawer, myself included. Same as you with the other drawers, organized to the max, but the junk drawer will always be the junk drawer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

She's right. Always.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

At first I was thinking I don't have this drawer, but I suppose I have a version of it. Anything that doesn't get used weekly goes into a misc. box that I store in the pantry to keep clutter out of drawers, e.g. icing spatula, fat separator, some baking items, etc.

My knives are upright on my counter and my scale is in my cabinet though, so that also frees up space. A few trays in your drawer might help?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I have this drawer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At my parents we had a similar drawer with miscellaneous stuff but it was organised so it looked somewhat tidy. Currently I don't have a drawer like this, cuz I have a tiny kitchen with only one drawer which is reserved for cutlery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

We have this drawer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I have whole cabinets like this

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Of course I have that drawer. Why do you need a solution? What's the problem?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I’ve got four of those.

Edit: wait, that’s a useful disorganized kitchen drawer. I’ve got two. I should do something about my four junk drawers, and today’s the day, goddammit!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Proud junk drawer owner checking in.

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