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We have this drawer.

Looks good

We have like 3 junk drawers. The get filled with so much shit that we don't know what to do with that we just find another drawer

This is all of the drawers in our kitchen.

I have a large silverware drawer with a silverware tray. The area around the silverware tray is that drawer though

Yes, all homes have this drawer. Only way to get rid of it is to move. Just leave it all behind.

I’m lucky that my drawer like this is actually inside a cutting board cupboard. The inconvenience helps give it purpose: awkward unnecessary crap we rarely use

Yeah it's a thing. I've made wood box type things to separate the drawer out and try to keep it slightly organised.

In my house it’s a whole room instead of just a drawer.

Most of my drawers are junk drawers. IDK how I find anything

You lost this one.. They've even written songs about it....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuJHgb5RB-4

I'm too anal about cleanliness and organization, my house typically doesn't have a drawer like this. My favorite mantra in the home, which my chronically disorganized wife is tired of hearing me repeat, is "a place for everything and everything in its place."

However. I inherited my childhood home when my dad passed away this year (my wife and I had already been living here for a few years, in a separate apartment in the house) and my dad had a junk drawer like this. As a matter of fact, my dad was extremely messy and almost every drawer in his house looks like this. It's probably the reason I'm so anal about organization in my life; having to grow up in a constantly messy home.

Growing up in this house, though, my family always had 2 drawers side-by-side in the kitchen which were always filled with random junk. They're still here. I haven't gotten to them yet. So yes, my current house has a couple junk drawers. But if I have my way, they will be organized and cleared out. If there's going to be any messy containers filled with miscellaneous junk in the house, it'll be boxes stored in the garage or basement - not a random drawer.

Yes. It's so common that it's been a well known joke in the UK for the last 16 years: The "Man" Drawer.

I have an entire spare dresser that has nothing but these drawers

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

You can at least make some compartments so it's not all jumbled together

But yes, I do have a couple of those drawers

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

I have a knife drawer with 2/3 of these objects in it and a measuring tool drawer witj 1/3 of these items. My junk drawer contains literally nothing in this drawer.

We do

Where else would you sort the strange kitchen tools?

They don't belong anywhere in particular, so they are clumped together.

you have too much stuff. time to minimalize!

Your house is this drawer. Think about it.