It's not a southern thing

Nope. Not just a southern thing. It knows no boundaries. Question for Pandas worldwide: Does your kitchen have a junk drawer?

I'm from Northern Italy and I do have a junk drawer

I think most American houses had a junk drawer. Definitely in Cali. Tho, not so much here in Hawai’i

Not a southern thing.

Switzerland here, we also have the junk drawer. Where else would you put Batterie and chewinggums gums? And lighters, and, and, and...

I have an OMG room ... no-one who wishes to avoid injuries should open the door for longer than it takes to yeet something in & shriek & slam the door & run

England here, can confirm we have this too.

And those seldom used highly specialized kitchen devices that might see the light of day weekly, might get touched monthly, but only actually get used once every 3 years but you don't want to get rid of cuz you don't want to have to go buy a new one the next time you actually do need it... And a shipload of bread clips and twist ties... And a handful of pens that MIGHT still work, but you haven't gotten around to actually checking and/or tossing yet...

You forgot rubber bands and chopsticks!

More like junk drawers (plural). Amiright?

I live up in the northeast of the country and we always had (still do ) a junk drawer. It's not just a southern thing.

Yep, have one too. I tried many times to organize it into some semblance of order, but it reverts to its natural chaos condition rather soon.

Nope, born/raised in MD, and we had one. But, it was my grandmother who made it. She immigrated from England in 1945 when she was 15. So even further north, technically. The drawer she used had decorative mushrooms on the front, we always called it the mushroom drawer. I never really made the connection until years later. I remember hearing "junk drawer" in my teens, never liked it. My drawer may not have mushrooms on front, but mushroom drawer it is.

We have them in the UK

Plastic silverware in baggies, extra cords, a travel sized sewing kit, the remote for the compact treadmill under the couch.

Haha...in Germany we also have chunk drawers at least one in the kitchen and sometimes one additional in the living room 😅

From South Africa , we do this too

.....nail clippers, the second C battery from the two-pack you bought for the smoke detector, the last three pills from a z-pack, a random spool of thread with a needle stuck into the end, and eight giveaway key chains.

They are VERY common

I live in NZ and I have a junk draw.

We have junk drawers in Brisbane, Australia, too!

Not just in the south. I'm up in Indiana, and I have 3 junk drawers, a junk pot, a junk bowl, a high-sided junk platter, a junk saucer, 2 decorative junk teapots, what must be at least $50 in coins wedged between sofa cushions, and sugary snacks stashed all around the house. LOL Oh! And I have a cat walkin' around here somewhere... ;-P

Mine isn't in the kitchen. I envy people who have such big kitchens that all their kitchen stuff is in their kitchen. I have cabinets of food in my dining room, and small appliances at the top of closets!

Not from the South but we have 2 of them. It was the same growing up. :)

I'm 60 and have one of these in every room. Not as crazy as it sounds.

And those loose screws you don't want to throw, cause you just might need it one day when you figure out what it belongs to. Or is it just me?