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We don't have one, we have multiple

Attempt at organizing said drawer of ours

The misc tools drawer? I have one that's overflowing. My parents have multiple drawers and cabinets of this.

We have that drawer. Two of them in fact.

I have no drawers that are not this drawer.

Families only have one drawer like this?? How do they manage?

Every family has this drawer

What do you mean? This is organized! And I have such a drawer too. This is the collection of slightly large kitchen tools that are not large enough to place them in the cupboard.

Whether every family has this drawer or not, I wouldn't know, so I'm not very helpful with settling your argument. I'd bet, every family has this drawer though. Because everyone must have those kinds of utensils, and there's no other logical place to store them. Some people hang some of them on the wall, but even then, there are some that cannot be hung on the wall. Those go into this drawer.

I had way too many of these drawers 🫠

Yes, and as others have mentioned, the scale sits on the counter since it's delicate.

Team junk drawer. Where else do you keep your used batteries?

Mine is more organised (without dividers, similar stuff simply each has its own space) and still roughly looks like yours.

We have a miscellaneous drawer of utensils and kitchen tools. Also another drawer of non-kitchen stuff that's just "the kitchen drawer" - screwdrivers, pliers, paper clips, rubber bands, magnets, ruler, magnifying glass.., not exactly "organized" but randomly deposited in compartments of an old generic drawer organizer so at least it's not just a pile. We just call it "the drawer".

Bachelor here, and I do indeed have a random shit drawer. As did my family when I was growing up.

Yep.

I regrettably also have this drawer.

Attempts at cleaning it usually end up with the drawer now being somewhere else, but it clings to life somehow.

I think they're just a fact of life at this point.

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

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.

Definitely got one of those.

My family has a junk home, not just a drawer :)

In my house it’s a whole room instead of just a drawer.

The only surprise is that your family didn't have this drawer, apparently?

Yeah, I've got that drawer

Where else would you sort the strange kitchen tools?

They don't belong anywhere in particular, so they are clumped together.

This is not a junk drawer, there are no coins or condiment packets.

This looks to be a kitchen accessories drawer although I'm unsure why you have a pill cutter in there.

Ahh. The good ole junk drawer.

I've had one in every home I've lived, even when I was the minor.

Wife says the same.

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

What?

These misc drawers are the best way to worship anoia, Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers (also luck).

Yes. I've tried to sort it, but there are too many small things that don't go anywhere else, so they are dumped together.

Trust me, that one is fine

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