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We have this drawer.
I have this drawer.
It's not a junk drawer.
It's an irregular kitchen items drawer.
It's just the cost of being someone who actually uses their kitchen. We have the garlic press, scissors, pizza cutter, bench scrapers, microplaners, thermometers, etc... in there. All useful things that fit poorly with other things, so they get a drawer all to themselves.
The junk drawer with batteries and twist ties is another drawer.
My wife has serious ADHD, this is every drawer.
This is not a junk drawer. A junk drawer has flashlights, pocket knife, some tools, tape, bandaids, pens. This drawer doesn't have anything like that.
This is the food prep drawer.
I have three food utensil drawers. Dining, serving, and prep.
If you have a small kitchen, maybe you would combine serve and prep utensils into one drawer.
Can opener, cheese grater, scale, rolling pin, whisks, mixer parts, and cooking knives, all go into drawer. But like the bread knife and cake knife go into serve drawer, along with labels, and serving spoons, for example.
I have 2 of these drawers. 1 in the kitchen and 1 in the garage.
I do have it.
Iβve got four of those.
Edit: wait, thatβs a useful disorganized kitchen drawer. Iβve got two. I should do something about my four junk drawers, and todayβs the day, goddammit!
Entropy wins.... always. You must free yourself and accept this. You cannot defeat entropy.
Every house has one. My mother with legit OCD had one... though she claimed it was a 'Miscellaneous' drawer and not a junk drawer. (To be fair, it was a well organized junk drawer at any rate.)
But yeah, your wife is right.
It can be sorted quite nicely if you get an organiser division thingy. Even if you're only going to keep one thing in each section, it's nice to have each thing in its own place. The difficulty with that is remembering where it's supposed to be, and that it takes more space.
A little basket is suitable for keeping most of those things if you simply accept that them being in the same basket is actually the correct placement for them.
One basket is practically the same solution as one drawer.
I do not have this drawer.
I have two of this drawer.
Looks perfectly fine. Ours is the second drawer though. Top one is for cuttlery
That's essentially the "overflow" drawer. The only solution is to have less stuff... Or just live with it like i do lol
Bits and bobs drawer. Yep
Almost every home has a junk drawer or other junk container. Mine has multiple.
All that being said, I don't think I've seen a drawer as confusing as this.
Of course, everyone has this drawer. It's called a junk drawer. Where else would you put this crap. What planet are you living on?
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.
I'd be more inclined to call this a misc utensils drawer. I have one just like it, with many of the same items, but I also have a true "junk drawer", but it has anything but utensils in it. Like, batteries, screws, magnifying glass, fire starters, a deck of cards, etc. All of the shit that ends up near the kitchen that doesn't have a whole space dedicated to similar things, finds a home in the junk drawer.
There isnβt a house in existence that doesnβt have one of these. All houses that exist have one of these by celestial mandate.
A drawer full of emergency makeshift weapons? Yes. Also a junk drawer? Yes, more than one.
Yep. The "junk drawer". Even in my house with my diagnosed OCD mom had one of these.
We have two OP. That drawer is as american as low taxes for the rich.
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?
Iβm lucky that my drawer like this is actually inside a cutting board cupboard. The inconvenience helps give it purpose: awkward unnecessary crap we rarely use
I have this drawer.
you have too much stuff. time to minimalize!
A junk/misc. drawer? Yes.
This isn't junk/misc, most of those things should have proper places.
This is a monstrous misuse of the misc drawer. The pizza cutter, for example, should be with your knives.
It's so not a junk drawer it should be a proper utensil drawer if nothing else. Get that scale out and just line the others up like you live in a society!
You could get rid of half of that stuff at least
Sorry OP, we've got two in our home.
Shit not only does ever house have this drawer, every restaurant I've ever worked in has a utensil pan like this.
Remove the scale, electronics don't belong in the misc food prep and niche baking implements drawer. Once you do that you'll easily recognize it as the food prep and niche baking implements drawer. The scale goes on a shelf, or in a cabinet next to the mixer/food proc/salad spinner.
I agree but if it's a small kitchen, I wouldn't call the scale out of place.
We have the scale on the top at hand all time and use it for everything. Is pretty good for measuring water.
I keep my scale in the cocaine room.
Scale goes right next to the flour in a cabinet.
You're the worst kind of human. Flour should be haphazardly measured using volume and feelings and a "good enough" mentality.
yes. whether i asked my mom for one of her recipes she would readily tell me the ingredients... but whenever i asked how much of the thing to put she would get really confused. like, about π€ this much...
You. I like you.
Yes we all have it.
Proud junk drawer owner checking in.