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

I am proud to say that I don't have this drawer. I grew up in a house with this drawer and always hated it. Nothing new is added to the kitchen without considering the actual need and anything that goes unused for any length of time is getting reevaluated.

Could you un max out other areas? Eliminate duplicates elsewhere so things in this drawer could be moved to the newly made space?

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

What is the green thing with the white blades?

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.

Nobody has this drawer. They're all lying to you, it's some big in-joke like that reddit thread where that person was asking how to switch from Spanish to English and everybody replied in Spanish. You should stand your ground and tell your wi--I can't even joke about the level of gaslighting that would entail. Everybody has this drawer.

I'll be honest though, the scales are a poor fit and probably make it way more cramped. You can stand those up sideways at the edge of a cupboard or in whatever place that you keep cutting boards, because they're a similar shape.

Depending on how often each thing is used, you could optimise by figuring out a hanging solution for some of them. That's quite a common thing, hanging under cupboards or on the backsplash part of the wall. Your wife might appreciate something like that as long as it's agreed on. You'll never totally get rid of this though.

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

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

Every family has this drawer

Attempt at organizing said drawer of ours

I have no drawers that are not this drawer.

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.

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

just take the pizza cutter out

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.

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

We have that drawer. Two of them in fact.

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

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.

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

Every house has that drawer.

Your house is this drawer. Think about it.

Of course I have that drawer. Why do you need a solution? What's the problem?

You could build our repurpose something like a silverware organiser, but fitted to the items in there.

But the true travesty: the scale should be easily accessible and in constant use tsk tsk

(We don't have such a drawer btw)

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

Yep, we all do. Although you might be going a little far in putting the food scale in there.

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.

its the miscellaneous drawer, its normal, we have a whole misc cabinet.

Wife's right. This is an example of the pareto principle. 80% of your shit fits in 20% of the categories needed to properly organize your shit. 80% of the needed categories account for only 20% of your shit. 20% of your shit (and 80% of the needed categories) are in that drawer.