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I wish I could open mine.

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 don't have one, we have multiple

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

What is the green thing with the white blades?

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.

I have this drawer, and also the junk drawer. This is the correct solution to 'uncommonly used tools of an awkward shape'

I'm sorry you had to find out this way.

You have the OCD strain of autism and so do your parents.

Yeah, we have this drawer. There are always going to be some tools you use in the kitchen enough to justify the purchase but not enough to be in any of the daily driver drawers. Honestly, this is not bad, we have a drawer that is the awkward necessary crap drawer for the awkward necessary crap drawer.

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

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

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

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer

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

How did you get in my house!?

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

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

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

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

Everyone has that, except for my parents, its not just a drawer, but the entire basement floor. Filled. With. Junk.

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I have one and my parents have one

My work does one of those round robin steal it gift exchanges. One of my coworkers would just dump her junk drawer into a bag. It had the best stuff!

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

No drawer. Probably due to the kitchen layout, we don't have smaller drawers, so the tools and such go into their own container.

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

im afraid that everyone has the forbidden drawer. the drawer that should never be opened except as a last ditch effort to find that one appliance that seems to elude you in every other drawer. you can try to destroy the drawer, but it will always come back in some form.

Yep.

My wife got snap apart customizable drawer organizers and it's a big difference. She showed me the way.

I have whole cabinets like this