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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.

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

If you already have a maxed out sharps drawer, then you probably don't actually need any of the knives in this drawer. Like how often do you actually use the pizza cutter? I just cut pizza with a chef knife. Or the egg cutter? How often is that used? Sometimes the answer is to go through all your drawers and see what can be tossed to make space for the things you actually do use.

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

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

It's called a junk drawer and as far as I am aware it's an inevitability. However, I will say it's odd that you have utensils in there. Most junk drawers I've encountered are filled with random crap that rarely if ever gets used.

Your wife is correct.

I also don't have that drawer, but I have a box next to the toolbox labeled "useful crap that aren't tools"

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

Yes. Most kitchens have a junk drawer. This is often where the household hammer is kept, among other random things.

Compromise in marriage means not organizing everything to death and allowing your partner to maintain some jumbled spaces. A junk drawer is organized, out of sight chaos that still maintains a certain logic.

We’ve also floated the idea that not having a junk drawer in the kitchen may be a marker of psychopathy. I jest, but also not. Just know, junk drawers are common, diverse, and almost as expected as silverware drawers.

I live alone and have this drawer.

Yeah it's a thing. I've made wood box type things to separate the drawer out and try to keep it slightly organised.

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

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

You guys can open THE drawer?!

Every family has a junk drawer. Just accept it and move on in your life.

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.

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

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.

What?

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.

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

Don't known, but that big green thing with the clamping white blades...do not put your dick in that.

This drawer is the solution. To everything...

Yes, all homes have this drawer. Only way to get rid of it is to move. Just leave it all behind.

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.

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

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

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

I do have it.

You could get rid of half of that stuff at least

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)