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My wife says every family has this drawer. I do not believe every family has this drawer. Do you have this drawer? Do you know a good solution to this drawer?

We have a silverware drawer, organized, maxed out. A sharps drawer, organized, maxed out. Ziplocs, organized, maxed out. Bbq tools and oven mitts, organized, maxed out. But all this shit has no particular category so fuck me right. I gotta have an awkward necessary crap drawer. Maybe I should post all my drawers and crowdsource me some sense into my kitchen.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

You could get rid of half of that stuff at least

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I have 2 of these drawers. 1 in the kitchen and 1 in the garage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I’ve got four of those.

Edit: wait, that’s a useful disorganized kitchen drawer. I’ve got two. I should do something about my four junk drawers, and today’s the day, goddammit!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

You could build our repurpose something like a silverware organiser, but fitted to the items in there.

But the true travesty: the scale should be easily accessible and in constant use tsk tsk

(We don't have such a drawer btw)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

She's right. Always.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago

3d printed some Gridfinity stuff and fixed a couple of these drawers. The rest are under way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I have this drawer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

Every house has that drawer.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

That's easy:

[–] [email protected] 68 points 18 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

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!)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 286 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (4 children)

Every household has a junk drawer. Be thankful you don't have more than one.

[–] [email protected] 155 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

This is not a junk drawer! This is a cooking utensil (mostly baking) that has no other good place drawer!

The junk drawer got like, loose screws and scotch tape and batteries and scrap paper and whatnot

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

Every family has this drawer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

I also have this drawer

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

Yep, we all do. Although you might be going a little far in putting the food scale in there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

its the miscellaneous drawer, its normal, we have a whole misc cabinet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 77 points 20 hours ago

It's the miscellaneous utensil drawer. We have 2. Up top for common ones like can opener, corkscrew... big one on floor for the lesser used ones like rolling pin, flour sifter, hand mixer....

If you are arguing over this, don't. Not worth it because there's no better answer unless you have a millionaire mansion with a gazillion drawers

[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 139 points 21 hours ago

You've lost this one, and if this was a hill you were prepared to die on I would get ready to lose a lot more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

A drawer full of emergency makeshift weapons? Yes. Also a junk drawer? Yes, more than one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I don't get why it bothers you, well, maybe it's not a serious disagreement idk.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

We have 3 of them: misc kitchen utensils and tools, misc containers, and misc stuff that does not even belong in the kitchen, but ends up there because that's the only drawers in the house that don't have clothes in them.

If you want to organize it some, you can build or buy dividers and split it up.

[–] [email protected] 196 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

This drawer is the solution. To everything...

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Ours is a little more organized with dividers, but it doesn't look much better. Everyone I know has a drawer like that. I'd take the scale out and put it on a shelf. Scales are delicate.

PS, we have the exact same can opener, pizza roller, and grater as you guys.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Proud junk drawer owner checking in.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Attempt at organizing said drawer of ours

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Is this a screenshot of the camera app?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 18 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

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

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