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I wish I could open mine.

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

Yes. It's so common that it's been a well known joke in the UK for the last 16 years: The "Man" Drawer.

There are probably houses out there somewhere that do not have one of these, but I have never encountered one. They appear with the same frequency as 10 million dollar lottery tickets.

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.

She's right. Always.

At first I was thinking I don't have this drawer, but I suppose I have a version of it. Anything that doesn't get used weekly goes into a misc. box that I store in the pantry to keep clutter out of drawers, e.g. icing spatula, fat separator, some baking items, etc.

My knives are upright on my counter and my scale is in my cabinet though, so that also frees up space. A few trays in your drawer might help?

I have that drawer, a bit more full tho.

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

I have this drawer.

Yep.

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.

I have an entire spare dresser that has nothing but these drawers

Proud junk drawer owner checking in.

One drawer? We have house full of these, cupboards and a garage XD

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 have a large silverware drawer with a silverware tray. The area around the silverware tray is that drawer though

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

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