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That's easy:

We have four of these drawers. What helps is organization trays of different sizes and a junk cupboard.

Long skinny things fit here, curved things go here, bulky things get piled up in the cupboard.

Sorry OP - we all hate it too, but everyone has this. Your drawer doesn’t even look that bad. (You were able to OPEN it!)

What is the green thing with the white blades?

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

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.

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

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this 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.

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

Yeah, we have this drawer. There are always going to be some tools you use in the kitchen enough to justify the purchase but not enough to be in any of the daily driver drawers. Honestly, this is not bad, we have a drawer that is the awkward necessary crap drawer for the awkward necessary crap drawer.

Have you ever visited other people's kitchens? Everyone has that drawer.

I have no drawers but at least one box per room for this purpose

In reality you live in a junk drawer cozy. Just support the junk drawer and everything will probably be OK.

I have one of the drawers and I'd consider myself organized. I try to keep it organized with one of these rather large Ikea Stodja drawer organizers. I used to use silverware organizers but stumbled upon this thing, 14"x20". They come in other shapes and sizes too but is a lot handier than using a regular silverware organizer because the compartments are pretty large.

Pens and notepads/post-it notes in one, batteries and an Eneloop wall charger in another, hair ties/lip gloss/rubber bands in another, big compartment holds a roll of packing tape and various other tapes, and another slot has a couple pairs of scissors.

I'd recommend getting a larger organizer just so you can compartmentalize larger things together, something a silverware organizer usually can't accomplish

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!

I want to know how OP would like this drawer to look instead. Random kitchen utensils always seem to get shoved in a drawer like this

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

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.

I have one and my parents have one

Only if you have extra drawer space to waste. Most beneficial would be to give a dedicated space to the scale

Yep.

Wow. Yours looks really clean. We have two of these drawers and they're maxed out double as full.

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

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

We have a space for that in our cutlery drawer, as well as a basket of miscellanea in a shelf where it doesn't matter if they get dusty.

To say what others have said in a different way. Yes, in almost any categorisation system, you're gonna need to deal with some misc haha.

Where else could these things possibly go? (minus the scales, which in my opinion belong on some flat surface in a cupboard of countertop somewhere, since I use my scales all the time)

We have one of these drawers at home, also. I think your wife is right on this one friend.