The problem is not the organization or lack thereof, the problem is that someone in your household buys too many niche specialized single-purpose kitchen tools. Wtf is that thing with the green handle?

I try to donate any kitchen tool that I haven't used in a year or two.

Not only do we have the "one", we each have one in our own space as well.

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

My family has a junk home, not just a drawer :)

I wish I could open mine.

Yes, every family I've ever known has had a drawer with bulky oversized kitchen utensils and gadgets. The harder you try to organize these things, the more you will realize that you'd just end up with an entire drawer taken up by a single pizza cutter, garlic press, or zester. Theoretically, if you had enough storage space in your kitchen you could do that, but these things are used so infrequently that they either get shoved into one drawer which fully takes up that one space with disorganized chaos, or placed in a receptacle of some sort to sit on the countertop for when you need it, which is ugly and takes up then takes up the counter space instead.

Have you ever visited other people's kitchens? Everyone has that drawer.

I have that drawer, a bit more full tho.

It's the one where everything is oddly shaped and can't stack easily.

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.

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.

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.

The only reason I don't have such a drawer, is an overall lack of drawers in my house, don't really have one to spare to be a junk drawer.

Which is a damn shame because I could really use a drawer to throw some miscellaneous odds and hands that don't have any other designated place to live.

We don't have one, we have multiple

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

I do not have this drawer.

I have two of this drawer.

I have whole cabinets like this

That's easy:

Bits and bobs drawer. Yep

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.

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

What is the green thing with the white blades?

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

We have several of those drawers.

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

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

Yep.

Every family I know has this drawer, sorry mate

I want to know how OP would like this drawer to look instead. Random kitchen utensils always seem to get shoved in a drawer like this

Nobody has this drawer. They're all lying to you, it's some big in-joke like that reddit thread where that person was asking how to switch from Spanish to English and everybody replied in Spanish. You should stand your ground and tell your wi--I can't even joke about the level of gaslighting that would entail. Everybody has this drawer.

I'll be honest though, the scales are a poor fit and probably make it way more cramped. You can stand those up sideways at the edge of a cupboard or in whatever place that you keep cutting boards, because they're a similar shape.

Depending on how often each thing is used, you could optimise by figuring out a hanging solution for some of them. That's quite a common thing, hanging under cupboards or on the backsplash part of the wall. Your wife might appreciate something like that as long as it's agreed on. You'll never totally get rid of this though.

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.

I have one of the drawers and I'd consider myself organized. I try to keep it organized with one of these rather large Ikea Stodja drawer organizers. I used to use silverware organizers but stumbled upon this thing, 14"x20". They come in other shapes and sizes too but is a lot handier than using a regular silverware organizer because the compartments are pretty large.

Pens and notepads/post-it notes in one, batteries and an Eneloop wall charger in another, hair ties/lip gloss/rubber bands in another, big compartment holds a roll of packing tape and various other tapes, and another slot has a couple pairs of scissors.

I'd recommend getting a larger organizer just so you can compartmentalize larger things together, something a silverware organizer usually can't accomplish

Yep we’ve got a large utensil drawer