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It's the stuff drawer. Why are you like this?

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!)

That's easy:

We have two OP. That drawer is as american as low taxes for the rich.

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.

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

A messy drawer? There should be at least two: one for the kitchen and one for general.

The problem is not the organization or lack thereof, the problem is that someone in your household buys too many niche specialized single-purpose kitchen tools. Wtf is that thing with the green handle?

I try to donate any kitchen tool that I haven't used in a year or two.

We have two of them.

Yeah, we have this drawer. There are always going to be some tools you use in the kitchen enough to justify the purchase but not enough to be in any of the daily driver drawers. Honestly, this is not bad, we have a drawer that is the awkward necessary crap drawer for the awkward necessary crap drawer.

Pretty much every house i cooked at i found an equivalent of this drawer, even when they did other things differently. Maybe with the exception of my girlfriend, she's freakishly organized, but she has one massive drawer that includes silverware where somehow all the weird crap fits and it's organized,

Edit: I lied, I looked at her drawer again today, she has a subsection for random cluttered shit

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

I lack the space for a drawer like this, instead this exists as a plastic tub in the kitchen cabinet under the sink.

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

How did you get in my house!?

(yes, we have this exact drawer, though I moved the scale to another drawer)

I have one and my parents have one

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

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

I have whole cabinets like this

To say what others have said in a different way. Yes, in almost any categorisation system, you're gonna need to deal with some misc haha.

Where else could these things possibly go? (minus the scales, which in my opinion belong on some flat surface in a cupboard of countertop somewhere, since I use my scales all the time)

We have one of these drawers at home, also. I think your wife is right on this one friend.

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.

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

Every family has at least one packing drawer of course!

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.

I have several. It takes a few months before the order becomes chaos. I do know where to find my stuff though.

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

In reality you live in a junk drawer cozy. Just support the junk drawer and everything will probably be OK.

Thanks, I hate it.

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