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I’ve got four of those.

Edit: wait, that’s a useful disorganized kitchen drawer. I’ve got two. I should do something about my four junk drawers, and today’s the day, goddammit!

Sepparate utensils into three groups. Prep and baking tools should be near the largest counter space. Cooking tools should be near the stove. Single use tools should be near the curb.

Yes, all homes have this drawer. Only way to get rid of it is to move. Just leave it all behind.

I by myself only have a single drawer(don't need/have more) but for my parents this is devinetively true. They have one for metal pieces, one for plastic pieces and one for cutlery. The fourth drawer is for all the stuff that isn't really needed that often or simply to big to be put into one of the other drawers.

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

Most of my drawers are junk drawers. IDK how I find anything

It can be sorted quite nicely if you get an organiser division thingy. Even if you're only going to keep one thing in each section, it's nice to have each thing in its own place. The difficulty with that is remembering where it's supposed to be, and that it takes more space.

A little basket is suitable for keeping most of those things if you simply accept that them being in the same basket is actually the correct placement for them.

We do

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

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

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.

Your house is this drawer. Think about it.

just take the pizza cutter out

A drawer full of emergency makeshift weapons? Yes. Also a junk drawer? Yes, more than one.

My mom has one of these, but we (my and my brother) don't live with her anymore. We (me and my gf) don't have one.

You might like a doom box: "didn't organise only moved". Put it in sight but make sure it's small enough that you can put it away when guests are over.

I’m lucky that my drawer like this is actually inside a cutting board cupboard. The inconvenience helps give it purpose: awkward unnecessary crap we rarely use

you have too much stuff. time to minimalize!

I have 2 of these drawers. 1 in the kitchen and 1 in the garage.

Looks good

I don't have this drawer. The ambiguous items just get a place assigned to them with their less ambiguous brethren. And some of these more three dimensional things I keep in a cabinet, like the funnels. I usually keep my scale out on the counter at all times because it's part of my coffee setup in addition to just baking/cooking

Yeah, I've got that drawer

In my house it’s a whole room instead of just a drawer.

You can at least make some compartments so it's not all jumbled together

But yes, I do have a couple of those drawers

Where else would you sort the strange kitchen tools?

They don't belong anywhere in particular, so they are clumped together.

You lost this one.. They've even written songs about it....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJHgb5RB-4