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I wish I could open mine.

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.

We have several of those drawers.

I think there are some sharp as well as blunt instruments that can be used to help resolving that disagreement.

There are probably houses out there somewhere that do not have one of these, but I have never encountered one. They appear with the same frequency as 10 million dollar lottery tickets.

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.

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.

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

She's right. Always.

At first I was thinking I don't have this drawer, but I suppose I have a version of it. Anything that doesn't get used weekly goes into a misc. box that I store in the pantry to keep clutter out of drawers, e.g. icing spatula, fat separator, some baking items, etc.

My knives are upright on my counter and my scale is in my cabinet though, so that also frees up space. A few trays in your drawer might help?

I have this drawer.

Yep.

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.

Proud junk drawer owner checking in.

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

One drawer? We have house full of these, cupboards and a garage XD

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

At my parents' place, EVERY drawer is like that!

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

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.

I have one and my parents have one

In Yorkshire they call this a rammel drawer

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

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

How did you get in my house!?

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

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

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