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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

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.

Yep. The "junk drawer". Even in my house with my diagnosed OCD mom had one of these.

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?

Looks perfectly fine. Ours is the second drawer though. Top one is for cuttlery

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

I’ve got four of those.

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.

A junk/misc. drawer? Yes.

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.

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

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'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.

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.

Sorry OP, we've got two in our home.

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

Every family has this drawer.

Every single person does not have this drawer.

Every child has this for every 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.

Pfft you call THAT an overstuffed drawer?

I bet you can open it without anything catching the backside of the cabinet, nerd.

Shit not only does ever house have this drawer, every restaurant I've ever worked in has a utensil pan like this.

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?

Throw in birthday candles, rubber bands, and a few coins and you got yourself a proper junk drawer.

Not only does everyone have one of these, they suffer from quantum entanglement.

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

I have this drawer.

I live alone and have this drawer.

Well this backfired on OP

That's not even a proper junk drawer, that's all kitchen gadgets, but okay... Yes, in my experience, most households have a junk drawer.

Ah yes, the "junk" drawer. I have three! :-)

You could get rid of half of that stuff at least

where's the sauce packets?

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

Your wife is correct.

you have too much stuff. time to minimalize!

You guys can open THE drawer?!