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I have a knife drawer with 2/3 of these objects in it and a measuring tool drawer witj 1/3 of these items. My junk drawer contains literally nothing in this drawer.

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

Your house is this drawer. Think about it.

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.

She's right. Always.

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?

I have this drawer.

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.

Proud junk drawer owner checking in.

We do

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.

We have several of those drawers.

One drawer? We have house full of these, cupboards and a garage XD

A junk drawer? ... yes, most houses have one.

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

Ah yes. The “nonsense drawer” as my youngest labeled it. It has stuck. In my parents family it was called the junk drawer.

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.

😕

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.

At my parents' place, EVERY drawer is like that!

Yes. It's so common that it's been a well known joke in the UK for the last 16 years: The "Man" Drawer.