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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.

Everyone I've ever known personally has a "junk drawer." It's where various random doodads and thingamajigs go when they don't neatly fit any other category. And batteries.

For every item in that drawer, ask yourself: "When was the last time I used this?"

If it's more than a year ago, it's not in the right place.

If it's less than a year ago, it's also not in the right place.

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Sorry man but I have to side with your wife here. We have even one such junk drawer per room.

• In the kitchen with scissors, jar opener, potato peeler, nut cracker, sticks, tooth picks...
• In the living room with matches, candles, coasters, birthday decoration, fertilizer for house plants, ...
• In the bedroom we even have one per person with protective gear for sports, single socks that have their partner missing, scarves, baseball cap, luggage straps, ...

Could go on with bathroom, laundry room etc. Junk drawers for the win!

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

I wish I could open mine.

Every household, family or sole occupant, has this drawer. Sometimes there are more than one of these.

We have this drawer, maybe 2. My parents recently thinned and organized theirs. You can get cut-to-fit drawer Inserts if it bothers you.

We have several of those drawers.

I think there are some sharp as well as blunt instruments that can be used to help resolving that disagreement.

I have this drawer, and also the junk drawer. This is the correct solution to 'uncommonly used tools of an awkward shape'

I'm sorry you had to find out this way.

This drawer is government issued when a house is built. Every family had this drawer. It is load bearing. Removing the contents of this drawer will cause irreparable damage to the house.

I have that drawer, a bit more full tho.

It's the one where everything is oddly shaped and can't stack easily.

My work does one of those round robin steal it gift exchanges. One of my coworkers would just dump her junk drawer into a bag. It had the best stuff!

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

I have one and my parents have one

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

Every kitchen has this, but I'd work on your layout. You could put about 50% more gadgets in there.

Also, store the scale vertically somewhere for maximum efficiency

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

How did you get in my house!?

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

Everyone has that, except for my parents, its not just a drawer, but the entire basement floor. Filled. With. Junk.

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We have that drawer, plus a bowl in a cabinet full of stuff like that.

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 wouldn't put the scale in there but yes, miscellaneous drawer.

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.

Your junk drawer game is weak. We have 3 of them in the kitchen and the least bad of them is worse than that.

Yes we all have it.