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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      19 days ago

      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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        19 days ago

        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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        19 days ago

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

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    19 days ago

    Everyone has this drawer, but this one is too organized. It appears to be 100% kitchen tools. You need to add a deck of playing cards, a bunch of soy sauce packets, a few half-used books of matches, a few take-out menus, and some loose keys in order to do this drawer properly.

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        19 days ago

        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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    18 days ago

    Yours is actually much cleaner, but you cannot escape the drawer. We are all the drawer. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

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    18 days ago

    every family has this drawer. We have this drawer. The solution to having this drawer is having this drawer.

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    18 days ago

    Yes, I have the where-does-this-thing-go drawer, for food prep items that don’t fit elsewhere, and also the junk drawer which includes things like

    • Lighter
    • Weird long plyers
    • Twine
    • Self-fusing rubber tape
    • Random rubber bands
    • Twist ties that came with electronics
    • A random assortment of sharpies in various states of abuse
    • A weird scissor thing with a blade at 90° to a flat piece of steel
    • Random Lego pieces
    • Batteries that are good but not in packaging
    • Hearing aid batteries (noone in our house has hearing aids)
    • A single 12"x18" piece of Scotch Brite
    • Matches
    • A pencil with the tip broken off
    • A pair of 1/2" Cast iron pipe 90° fittings
    • A key for a car that nobody can ID
    • The manual for the microwave
    • A bunch of pennies
    • Coupons for McRibs that are expired gone thanks for this thread
    • Our home insurance policy nope, 3y out of date
    • A replacement impeller for the fish tank
    • An iPod charger (FireWire)
    • An iPhone charger (usb)
    • 2 sets of analog headphones
    • A dishwasher cleaning tablet

    So…there you go.