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

I have multiple junk drawers. Like all of them.

At least one. Usually more.

Where is the ball of asparagus rubber bands?

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

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

I have accessory drawers, but they have organizers in them and I never put sharp things just randomly strewn i n a drawer. I have some baskets with random stuff in them for like extra cotton balls, the other of a 2 pack of soap, and stuff like that which could be considered “junk drawers”, but none of it is junk really. And I do have in my basement workbench a drawer that has random leftover parts from projects like screen spline, insulation spools, etc. That could definitely be called a junk drawer, but non of that is dangerous to reach in and grab, nor will any of the items damage each other when fumbling through them.

Thanks, I hate it.