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We have several of those drawers.

My family has a junk home, not just a drawer :)

We have two of them.

A messy drawer? There should be at least two: one for the kitchen and one for general.

Every household, family or sole occupant, has this drawer. Sometimes there are more than one of these.

I wish I could open mine.

We have this drawer, maybe 2. My parents recently thinned and organized theirs. You can get cut-to-fit drawer Inserts if it bothers you.

What is the green thing with the white blades?

The only reason I don't have such a drawer, is an overall lack of drawers in my house, don't really have one to spare to be a junk drawer.

Which is a damn shame because I could really use a drawer to throw some miscellaneous odds and hands that don't have any other designated place to live.

We don't have one, we have multiple

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!)

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.

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

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

In reality you live in a junk drawer cozy. Just support the junk drawer and everything will probably be OK.

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

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.

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer

How did you get in my house!?

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

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

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

I have one and my parents have one

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.

No drawer. Probably due to the kitchen layout, we don't have smaller drawers, so the tools and such go into their own container.

I have no drawers but at least one box per room for this purpose

im afraid that everyone has the forbidden drawer. the drawer that should never be opened except as a last ditch effort to find that one appliance that seems to elude you in every other drawer. you can try to destroy the drawer, but it will always come back in some form.

Yep.

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

I have whole cabinets like this