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A messy drawer? There should be at least two: one for the kitchen and one for general.

Correct, we have this drawer. And what sucks is that it has been broken for about 20 years.

That's easy:

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

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

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!)

We don't have one, we have multiple

There isn’t a house in existence that doesn’t have one of these. All houses that exist have one of these by celestial mandate.

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.

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.

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

I wish I could open mine.

We have two OP. That drawer is as american as low taxes for the rich.

We have a space for that in our cutlery drawer, as well as a basket of miscellanea in a shelf where it doesn't matter if they get dusty.

It's called a junk drawer and as far as I am aware it's an inevitability. However, I will say it's odd that you have utensils in there. Most junk drawers I've encountered are filled with random crap that rarely if ever gets used.

In reality you live in a junk drawer cozy. Just support the junk drawer and everything will probably be OK.

We all have one . Mines right next to the oven so I have quick access to various things I use

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

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.

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

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

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!

Only if you have extra drawer space to waste. Most beneficial would be to give a dedicated space to the scale

I lack the space for a drawer like this, instead this exists as a plastic tub in the kitchen cabinet under the sink.

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

We have this drawer. Full of kitchen utensils that don't fit nicely into other drawers.

My parents did not have this drawer. Or at least, not nearly to this extent. Idk how they did it with a smaller kitchen than we have.

I have to sat that the additional of a scale to that drawer is a wild choice

I do have it.

Pretty hard to avoid the drawer. Maybe find a new home for that scale (maybe sideways in a deep drawer?), throw a few rarely used tools into a ziploc bag, and introduce a caddy or two to corral the small stuff.

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

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer