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We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

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

I have whole cabinets like this

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.

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

I do have it.

Pretty hard to avoid the drawer. Maybe find a new home for that scale (maybe sideways in a deep drawer?), throw a few rarely used tools into a ziploc bag, and introduce a caddy or two to corral the small stuff.

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

How did you get in my house!?

(yes, we have this exact drawer, though I moved the scale to another drawer)

It's more of a "Junk Drawer" in my family. Just for things that have no relevant places or are easily categorized, but are important enough not to keep somewhere more out of the way. Always contains at least one item that makes it near impossible to open the drawer on first pull and requires manipulation to open. For my family, it's usually a hammer.

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

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

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 accessory drawers, but they have organizers in them and I never put sharp things just randomly strewn i n a drawer. I have some baskets with random stuff in them for like extra cotton balls, the other of a 2 pack of soap, and stuff like that which could be considered "junk drawers", but none of it is junk really. And I do have in my basement workbench a drawer that has random leftover parts from projects like screen spline, insulation spools, etc. That could definitely be called a junk drawer, but non of that is dangerous to reach in and grab, nor will any of the items damage each other when fumbling through them.

I wouldn't put the scale in there but yes, miscellaneous drawer.

I have this drawer.

She's right. Always.

that drawer is a small scale representation of my home.

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.

I have three small awkward necessary crap drawers, and my apple slicer doesn't fit into them. But my kitchen is so small, I call in the galley (facetiously, it's not actually on a boat).

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

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

Technically, mine isn't a drawer, it's a shoebox tucked under the coffee table, but yes.

We don't have one.

If something isn't important enough to have a specific place, it isn't important enough to own.

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

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.

Yes/no. We dont have a designated junk drawer, but theres one specific drawer we happen to throw random things into. I clean it out maybe twice a year during one of my adhd fueled hyper cleaning sessions.