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I live alone and have this drawer.

The "junk drawer" is supposed to have old receipts, loose batteries, the toy(s) you took from your kid when they threw it at your head, some vaguely kitchen-esque looking tool you got as a wedding gift but don't know what it is....crap like that.

That's just a normal large/specialty utensil drawer.

Every family afaik has at least one of these drawers. Just accept it and live your life.

Yes absolutely

But not the scale tho

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

Families only have one drawer like this?? How do they manage?

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.

As others have said, this isn't even a junk drawer, this is the miscellaneous kitchen tools drawer. My homes have always had one of them plus an actual kunk drawer full of keys, batteries, loose pens and caps, tape, rubber bands, stamps, and lighters. This thing is organized and coherent and i jave no clue what your complaint is.

We do

Definitely got one of those.

Team junk drawer. Where else do you keep your used batteries?

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

Junk drawer. Yes, everyone has one.

We have a junk room. LOL.

I had way too many of these drawers 🫠

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

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

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

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

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

Every family has this drawer

Hate to say it, but just about everyone I know has a junk drawer, myself included. Same as you with the other drawers, organized to the max, but the junk drawer will always be the junk drawer.

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

Attempt at organizing said drawer of ours

I have no drawers that are not this drawer.

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.

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.

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.

Every house has that drawer.

We have that drawer. Two of them in fact.

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