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

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.

Have you ever visited other people's kitchens? Everyone has that drawer.

I wish I could open mine.

I sort of have 3 variations of this drawer. One is fully named “the junk drawer” and contains things like rubber bands, batteries, scissors, garden snips, things that are sort of odd one out in other spots, but I feel are still relevant to my kitchen. Then I have one that is this but specifically things used on the stove and for mixing. So that puts spatulas, whisks, and such into their own mess. Finally is the “kitchen gadgets” drawer which looks very similar to yours. No organizer tray because everything is odd shapes, but also honestly sees little enough use I don’t really mind digging through it.

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

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!

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

Yep.

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.

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer

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

I have one and my parents have one

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.

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

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 do have it.

It's called a junk drawer and as far as I am aware it's an inevitability. However, I will say it's odd that you have utensils in there. Most junk drawers I've encountered are filled with random crap that rarely if ever gets used.

We all have one . Mines right next to the oven so I have quick access to various things I use

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

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.

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 two of them.

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.

Pretty hard to avoid the drawer. Maybe find a new home for that scale (maybe sideways in a deep drawer?), throw a few rarely used tools into a ziploc bag, and introduce a caddy or two to corral the small stuff.

Wow. Yours looks really clean. We have two of these drawers and they're maxed out double as full.