I have heard of people without a junk drawer.

Heard of.

Of course, the junk drawer.

I don’t think I’ve ever been in a home without one.

Empty the drawer into a box. Whenever you use a box item, it goes into a drawer. After a year, donate the box

Where is the ball of asparagus rubber bands?

At least one. Usually more.

I have multiple junk drawers. Like all of them.

Every family has that drawer

Every family… I have TWO of them

Yep, we have that drawer. Ours is much larger and much more full. My wife loves baking, which accounts for a lot of it - there’s about 5 pie servers in there, for example, along with various spatulas of many sizes. There are also three ice cream scoops so the odds are good I’ll have at least one that is clean when I need it. Lemon zester, spoons, all kinds of baking and cooking-related stuff. The rubber things you use to get stubborn jars open. I can’t even think of what else is in there, but there’s a lot.

This is separate from the drawer that has rarely-used knives (we have a knife block for the commonly used knives), cake decorating materials, and similar stuff.

And both of those are separate from the designated “junk drawer” that has random stuff like box cutters, can coozies, gift cards, coupons, etc.

We have 3 such drawers, one in the kitchen, one in a common area and one in the laundry room.

Jesus fuck, it’s fine.

Solution: build a new cabinet with a bunch of drawers and put one item in each drawer

Pretty much every house i cooked at i found an equivalent of this drawer, even when they did other things differently. Maybe with the exception of my girlfriend, she’s freakishly organized, but she has one massive drawer that includes silverware where somehow all the weird crap fits and it’s organized,

Edit: I lied, I looked at her drawer again today, she has a subsection for random cluttered shit

Thanks, I hate it.

Our catch-all drawer has screwdrivers, pliers and enough other tools to rebuild an engine, plus office supplies.

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.