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Team junk drawer. Where else do you keep your used batteries?

I had way too many of these drawers 🫠

What is the green thing with the white blades?

I lack the space for a drawer like this, instead this exists as a plastic tub in the kitchen cabinet under the sink.

We do not have that drawer. My kitchen is tiny and only has 2 drawers. As a result, our entire apartment is a mess

I have a knife drawer with 2/3 of these objects in it and a measuring tool drawer witj 1/3 of these items. My junk drawer contains literally nothing in this drawer.

Dear OP, the only odd thing about your drawer is that your garlic press in in there (unless this is your backup garlic press of course). In our household, we have it in the main cutlery drawer.

BTW, we have several such drawers spread out over our home: one in the kitchen, one in the living room, one in the home office and several in the garage.

Your house is this drawer. Think about it.

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.

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

A messy drawer? There should be at least two: one for the kitchen and one for general.

The only surprise is that your family didn't have this drawer, apparently?

Every family has this drawer

Attempt at organizing said drawer of ours

I have no drawers that are not this drawer.

I see enough squish things tools to designate it the squishing drawer.

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

What do you mean? This is organized! And I have such a drawer too. This is the collection of slightly large kitchen tools that are not large enough to place them in the cupboard.

Whether every family has this drawer or not, I wouldn't know, so I'm not very helpful with settling your argument. I'd bet, every family has this drawer though. Because everyone must have those kinds of utensils, and there's no other logical place to store them. Some people hang some of them on the wall, but even then, there are some that cannot be hung on the wall. Those go into this drawer.

We do

Yes, and as others have mentioned, the scale sits on the counter since it's delicate.

A junk drawer? ... yes, most houses have one.

Every house has that drawer.

Ah yes. The “nonsense drawer” as my youngest labeled it. It has stuck. In my parents family it was called the junk drawer.

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.

I don't get why it bothers you, well, maybe it's not a serious disagreement idk.