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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 isn’t a house in existence that doesn’t 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?

I’m 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.

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.

Yes we all have it.

Proud junk drawer owner checking in.

Every family has this drawer.

Every single person does not have this drawer.

Every child has this for every drawer.

Looks good

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

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

I live alone and have this drawer.

Every house have this. And yours is very neetly organised. Congrats. May you "tiroir à bazar" stay this empty of small non identified cluter.

That's easy:

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 is true. It is the "occasional use kitchen drawer"