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We have several of those drawers.

I think there are some sharp as well as blunt instruments that can be used to help resolving that disagreement.

I have this drawer, and also the junk drawer. This is the correct solution to 'uncommonly used tools of an awkward shape'

I'm sorry you had to find out this way.

This drawer is government issued when a house is built. Every family had this drawer. It is load bearing. Removing the contents of this drawer will cause irreparable damage to the house.

I have that drawer, a bit more full tho.

It's the one where everything is oddly shaped and can't stack easily.

Looks good

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!

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

I have one and my parents have one

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

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

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

How did you get in my house!?

(yes, we have this exact drawer, though I moved the scale to another drawer)

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

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

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer

It's more of a "Junk Drawer" in my family. Just for things that have no relevant places or are easily categorized, but are important enough not to keep somewhere more out of the way. Always contains at least one item that makes it near impossible to open the drawer on first pull and requires manipulation to open. For my family, it's usually a hammer.

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

We have that drawer, plus a bowl in a cabinet full of stuff like that.

I wouldn't put the scale in there but yes, miscellaneous drawer.

that drawer is a small scale representation of my home.

Technically, mine isn't a drawer, it's a shoebox tucked under the coffee table, but yes.

Every family without a gigantic kitchen has that drawer.

I have the contents of that drawer in about 4 drawers and 2 cabinets. I have so many cabinets, I don't even have things in some of them and I have instant pots, a tortilla maker and sourdough proofing tools

However, I do have an oversized drawer that has a l lot of stuff in there like the funnels and tenderizer, but it has no sharps in it, and no scale.

We don't have one.

If something isn't important enough to have a specific place, it isn't important enough to own.

Think about it like Socrates, man. Of course there’s gonna be a category for things that don’t fit in any other categories.

Yes/no. We dont have a designated junk drawer, but theres one specific drawer we happen to throw random things into. I clean it out maybe twice a year during one of my adhd fueled hyper cleaning sessions.

This is very common. If you really must "solve" it, the solution world be a shadow box layout. You empty it, lay stuff down where you want it, then take a picture or trace the shapes onto paper. Then model and 3d print an insert to give everything a dedicated cutout or cut it from foam or mill it from wood. This is what folks do in workshops. I've never seen it for a kitchen large utensil drawer, but that's what to do if you must.

We have essentially the same drawer but with no scale and more ladies, measuring spoons, etc.

I'd probably put that scale somewhere else since it's a precision device, and it can't be too healthy for it to live like that.

I’d say that every house has a junk drawer, but I wouldn’t call this a junk drawer. It mostly looks like random kitchen tools. I guess you’re both right, in a way.

Maybe what you need is a wall-mounted rack to hold some of your other stuff without taking up valuable counter space. For example, I’ve heard people swear by magnetic knife holders. You can probably find magnetic tool holders at a hardware store for less than you’d find knife holders at a store that specializes in kitchen stuff.

Or maybe just get some hooks. Perhaps some little shelves. Whatever. The point is, make the stuff you use most often more accessible, and use the freed-up space in other drawers to clean out this drawer. Then turn it into a proper junk drawer, with shit like loose rubber bands, half~dried superglue, an awkwardly shaped pen from a real estate salesperson, and a tape measure that’s branded with the logo of an NFL team for some reason.

Yes everyone has this drawer

Bench / pastry scraper next to the end grain cutting board on counter (that's how I clean it most often). Microplane and pizza cutter (Italian chef knife) get hung. Funnel covers a teacup protecting it's rare use from excess dust / atomized oils in the kitchen. Garlic press is a waste of money when you have knife skills. -Citrus juicer likewise (cut 1/3 slabs around the core using the geometry to make squeezing efficient).

Even the community kitchen I use has one of these...