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I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

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!)

My family has a junk home, not just a drawer :)

What is the green thing with the white blades?

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

The only reason I don't have such a drawer, is an overall lack of drawers in my house, don't really have one to spare to be a junk drawer.

Which is a damn shame because I could really use a drawer to throw some miscellaneous odds and hands that don't have any other designated place to live.

We don't have one, we have multiple

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.

We have two of them.

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

It's the stuff drawer. Why are you like this?

Correct, we have this drawer. And what sucks is that it has been broken for about 20 years.

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.

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

Yep.

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

We all have one . Mines right next to the oven so I have quick access to various things I use

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer

I have several. It takes a few months before the order becomes chaos. I do know where to find my stuff though.

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

I sort of have 3 variations of this drawer. One is fully named “the junk drawer” and contains things like rubber bands, batteries, scissors, garden snips, things that are sort of odd one out in other spots, but I feel are still relevant to my kitchen. Then I have one that is this but specifically things used on the stove and for mixing. So that puts spatulas, whisks, and such into their own mess. Finally is the “kitchen gadgets” drawer which looks very similar to yours. No organizer tray because everything is odd shapes, but also honestly sees little enough use I don’t really mind digging through it.

We had one when I grew up. Now that I'm living elsewhere with my own family we don't; we have two.

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

How did you get in my house!?

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

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

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

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.

We have this drawer. Full of kitchen utensils that don't fit nicely into other drawers.

My parents did not have this drawer. Or at least, not nearly to this extent. Idk how they did it with a smaller kitchen than we have.

I have to sat that the additional of a scale to that drawer is a wild choice

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

Every kitchen has this, but I'd work on your layout. You could put about 50% more gadgets in there.

Also, store the scale vertically somewhere for maximum efficiency