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This drawer is government issued when a house is built. Every family had this drawer. It is load bearing. Removing the contents of this drawer will cause irreparable damage to the house.

I wish I could open mine.

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 that drawer, a bit more full tho.

It's the one where everything is oddly shaped and can't stack easily.

Every household, family or sole occupant, has this drawer. Sometimes there are more than one of these.

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.

My family has a junk home, not just a 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!)

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

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

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

We have two of them.

That's easy:

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We have several junk drawers. Maybe they all are.

Yep.

I have one and my parents have one

How did you get in my house!?

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

I have whole cabinets like this

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

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!

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

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.