Operation Organization :Junk Drawers

We're friends, right?

And as friends, I can share with you some of my deepest, darkest secrets and you won't judge me, right?

Brace yourselves. Clutch your pearls if you have them. You might even want to pour a shot of Jack in preparation.

I give you....

Kitchen Junk Drawer A:





And Kitchen Junk Drawer B.



QUICK! Drink your Jack! Pull yourself together!

I don't know how this happened. I mean - how did bubbles, a playbill for Wicked, an almost obsolete dayplanner, and a bunch of Christmas gift tags all end up in one drawer? And what the hell is pink ribbon doing with the elmer's glue?

And who thought mint green nail polish was a good idea, anyway???

My first step. Empty those drawers. Completely. Get it all out.

Check out the carnage. Have you ever?



Sort through the pile and make a garbage stack. This is maybe 1/3 of what got pitched.



I had a box from a fossil watch that I converted into a great holding container for batteries. Genius, I say.



Kitchen Junk Drawer A: New & Improved.

Not only are the batteries all together and neat, I now have a place for all those random cell phone/ipod chargers, my card reader, thank yous, camera filters and bouncy balls that get underfoot.

Nice and tidy.



Moving on to Junk Drawer B.

Yeah, I don't even have words for this. I just don't understand.



Kitchen Junk Drawer B: New & Improved

I was able to pare down quite a bit - and now the drawer isn't totally overflowing. It's not perfect, but it's at a manageable level.



Much better.



It took about 30 minutes to get this done, but it was a 30 minutes well spent. I have to attack the Infamous Junk Closet next, and that will give me some more places for random tapes, glues and cutting implements, but for now it works.

I hope you're over your initial horror. If not, have another nip of Jack. You'll be right as rain in a jiffy.

Let me know what household project you're tackling next!