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My wife got snap apart customizable drawer organizers and it's a big difference. She showed me the way.

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

The "junk drawer" is supposed to have old receipts, loose batteries, the toy(s) you took from your kid when they threw it at your head, some vaguely kitchen-esque looking tool you got as a wedding gift but don't know what it is....crap like that.

That's just a normal large/specialty utensil drawer.

Every family afaik has at least one of these drawers. Just accept it and live your life.

you have too much stuff. time to minimalize!

Correct, we have this drawer. And what sucks is that it has been broken for about 20 years.

The only reason I don't have such a drawer, is an overall lack of drawers in my house, don't really have one to spare to be a junk drawer.

Which is a damn shame because I could really use a drawer to throw some miscellaneous odds and hands that don't have any other designated place to live.

At my parents' place, EVERY drawer is like that!

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Hate to say it, but just about everyone I know has a junk drawer, myself included. Same as you with the other drawers, organized to the max, but the junk drawer will always be the junk drawer.

Looks good

We don't have one, we have multiple

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

Of course I have that drawer. Why do you need a solution? What's the problem?

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".

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.

To an extent, we always had a junk drawer. Over the years it got smaller and more organized. Utinsels have an actual drawer for them all. So no pizza cutter in our junk drawer anymore. Almost everything in your picture has a spot for us.

Here's our junk drawer now.

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

If you don’t have this drawer you simply don’t have drawers.

Wife's right. This is an example of the pareto principle. 80% of your shit fits in 20% of the categories needed to properly organize your shit. 80% of the needed categories account for only 20% of your shit. 20% of your shit (and 80% of the needed categories) are in that drawer.

We have 2 drawers like that. What's the problem with it if you don't have a better place to put that shit?

as others have said, "yes" most people have the misfit drawer. We always called it the "horrible drawer_ because ladles and can openers and things would often catch and make it hard to open. I say embrace it, everyone deserves love even if not everyone fits in perfectly

I don't have this drawer. I have several drawers organised by use. Baking, cooking, eating, etc. All are barely organised.

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