My wife says every family has this drawer. I do not believe every family has this drawer. Do you have this drawer? Do you know a good solution to this drawer?

We have a silverware drawer, organized, maxed out. A sharps drawer, organized, maxed out. Ziplocs, organized, maxed out. Bbq tools and oven mitts, organized, maxed out. But all this shit has no particular category so fuck me right. I gotta have an awkward necessary crap drawer. Maybe I should post all my drawers and crowdsource me some sense into my kitchen.

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Every household has a junk drawer. Be thankful you don’t have more than one.

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This is not a junk drawer! This is a cooking utensil (mostly baking) that has no other good place drawer!

The junk drawer got like, loose screws and scotch tape and batteries and scrap paper and whatnot

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This guy has it right. That’s basically my mom’s kitchen gadget drawer. Junk drawer has duct tape, 3 leftover zip ties, some loose AA batteries and the big screwdriver everyone seems to have

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The takeout chopsticks on the right must have escaped from the junk drawer/ packet drawer, looking for a better life.

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We have 3. And they’re packed. But I know what’s in there!

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As a household that has thankfully many drawers, we unfortunately have more than one.

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Every drawer is a junk drawer when I’m around 😏

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This drawer is the solution. To everything…

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…except getting something out of the drawer.

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What sucks is when you end up super frustrated getting everything to fit, so you rip apart the drawer and put everything back in all nice and wow would you look at that you can fit everything and close it easily!

For two days. Tops.

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You’ve lost this one, and if this was a hill you were prepared to die on I would get ready to lose a lot more.

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Yes. Minus the scale, absolutely. It’s the tools that too big for the utensil drawer but too small to take up shelf space in a cabinet.

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This. The scale is the only issue here, but it’s a big one lol

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You’re the third person to be opposed to the scale that I’ve seen in this thread. This drawer is exactly where the scale lives in my house. TBH, the OP’s drawer looks a lot like mine.

Edit: I found a fourth

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Fifth here. That scale doesn’t belong in the “awkwardly sized cooking utensils” drawer.

You see, there’s a journey of self discovery that every household goes through, and during that journey, it’s ok for the kitchen scale to go in different places. We’ve all been there, so no one is judging.

When the time is right, it will find its way to a shelf where it will live happily for the rest of its life.

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I jest about the severity of course, but for me the scale is just too far from the shape of everything else in the drawer to belong there.

I feel loony for expressing this thought at all.

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My scale lives happily in this drawer too

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Every family has this drawer

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