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Thanks, I hate it.

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

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 this drawer. Full of kitchen utensils that don't fit nicely into other drawers.

My parents did not have this drawer. Or at least, not nearly to this extent. Idk how they did it with a smaller kitchen than we have.

I have to sat that the additional of a scale to that drawer is a wild choice

I have one and my parents have one

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

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

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

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

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

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

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.

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

How did you get in my house!?

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

Only if you have extra drawer space to waste. Most beneficial would be to give a dedicated space to the scale

We have a space for that in our cutlery drawer, as well as a basket of miscellanea in a shelf where it doesn't matter if they get dusty.

I lack the space for a drawer like this, instead this exists as a plastic tub in the kitchen cabinet under the sink.

every family has a drawer like that, mine has two

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

that drawer is a small scale representation of my home.

I also don't have that drawer, but I have a box next to the toolbox labeled "useful crap that aren't tools"

Brother, it is the junk drawer that keeps you sane. For trying to organize everything is impossible.

Yes everyone has this drawer

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.

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.

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.

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.

Consider a spring loaded drawer divider. Keeping everything from sloshing around can make a surprising amount of space.

My drawer in the image used to be a nightmare. Everything used to move around and it would jam when opening sometimes. Adding dividers got it organized enough to leave a third of it free, which is now the rightmost section that's filled with tea.

It's been over a year and I still feel a small sense of joy when I open it sometimes. There's still messes of junk in the back left and right, but they stay put.

We don't have one.

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

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.

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

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