Every family has this drawer.

Everyone has this drawer, but this one is too organized. It appears to be 100% kitchen tools. You need to add a deck of playing cards, a bunch of soy sauce packets, a few half-used books of matches, a few take-out menus, and some loose keys in order to do this drawer properly.

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

Your wife is right mate, this drawer is what makes a house a home.

Every house has one.

Where is the ball of asparagus rubber bands?

This drawer is the solution. To everything...

Not to brag but I have two of these and a proper junk drawer.

Yours is actually much cleaner, but you cannot escape the drawer. We are all the drawer. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

Yes, I have a drawer like that. And yes, every family has this drawer.

Every family has that drawer

Every family... I have TWO of them

every family has this drawer. We have this drawer. The solution to having this drawer is having this drawer.

Yes, I have the where-does-this-thing-go drawer, for food prep items that don't fit elsewhere, and also the junk drawer which includes things like

• Lighter
• Weird long plyers
• Twine
• Self-fusing rubber tape
• Random rubber bands
• Twist ties that came with electronics
• A random assortment of sharpies in various states of abuse
• A weird scissor thing with a blade at 90° to a flat piece of steel
• Random Lego pieces
• Batteries that are good but not in packaging
• Hearing aid batteries (noone in our house has hearing aids)
• A single 12"x18" piece of Scotch Brite
• Matches
• A pencil with the tip broken off
• A pair of 1/2" Cast iron pipe 90° fittings
• A key for a car that nobody can ID
• The manual for the microwave
• A bunch of pennies
• ~~Coupons for McRibs that are expired~~ gone thanks for this thread
• ~~Our home insurance policy~~ nope, 3y out of date
• A replacement impeller for the fish tank
• An iPod charger (FireWire)
• An iPhone charger (usb)
• 2 sets of analog headphones
• A dishwasher cleaning tablet

So...there you go.

Of course, the junk drawer.

I don't think I've ever been in a home without one.

my family has had 2 of these since the 90s and now i have 2 of my own.

Yes, every family has this drawer, and every family also has a member who despises this drawer and fruitlessly reorganizes, labels and makes it easy for everyone else but it takes one load of dishes and…

What were we talking about again. Oh yeah, that’s normal.

At least one. Usually more.

I honestly have multiple drawers like it.

Yep, have one. Its perfectly organised, because those things always go back in that drawer so that's just where they go.

Yes. Minus the scale, absolutely. It’s the tools that too big for the utensil drawer but too small to take up shelf space in a cabinet.

Yep, we have that drawer. Ours is much larger and much more full. My wife loves baking, which accounts for a lot of it - there's about 5 pie servers in there, for example, along with various spatulas of many sizes. There are also three ice cream scoops so the odds are good I'll have at least one that is clean when I need it. Lemon zester, spoons, all kinds of baking and cooking-related stuff. The rubber things you use to get stubborn jars open. I can't even think of what else is in there, but there's a lot.

This is separate from the drawer that has rarely-used knives (we have a knife block for the commonly used knives), cake decorating materials, and similar stuff.

And both of those are separate from the designated "junk drawer" that has random stuff like box cutters, can coozies, gift cards, coupons, etc.

Empty the drawer into a box. Whenever you use a box item, it goes into a drawer. After a year, donate the box

I have heard of people without a junk drawer.

Heard of.

Our catch-all drawer has screwdrivers, pliers and enough other tools to rebuild an engine, plus office supplies.

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.

Every single organization system will fail. When we try to put things into categories, there will always be some things that don't fit. That is why every organization scheme needs a miscellaneous category. That seems to be the purpose of this drawer, and that's great.

Just to the left of the stove, and the goddamn potato masher always manages to wiggle its way to the top and block the drawer opening.

It’s also how some fruit is grown so leave the drawer ecosystem alone.

Jesus fuck, it's fine.

We have 3 such drawers, one in the kitchen, one in a common area and one in the laundry room.

My life is this drawer.

Exactly like in the picture

We've got 2

Yep, I have a 'random shit' drawer too

I have multiple junk drawers. Like all of them.

What?

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

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.

You're lucky you only have one, and it's only a single layer deep

Yes, embrace the drawer

This is not a junk drawer. A junk drawer has flashlights, pocket knife, some tools, tape, bandaids, pens. This drawer doesn't have anything like that.

This is the food prep drawer.

I have three food utensil drawers. Dining, serving, and prep.

If you have a small kitchen, maybe you would combine serve and prep utensils into one drawer.

Can opener, cheese grater, scale, rolling pin, whisks, mixer parts, and cooking knives, all go into drawer. But like the bread knife and cake knife go into serve drawer, along with ladels, and serving spoons, for example.

Solution: build a new cabinet with a bunch of drawers and put one item in each drawer

When my daughter was 4, she named it the “Don’t know where go drawer” and that’s how we’ve referred to it since.

I also have a man drawer.

Not only do we have the "one", we each have one in our own space as well.

Wife is always right

You have the OCD strain of autism and so do your parents.