Yesterday I cleaned out four more kitchen drawers.
We have always had what we call a ‘junk drawer’ in any kitchen we have. It’s the place we put nails, screws, twist-ties, tools, and other odds-and-ends We might need.
The problem with living in a nice home for over 30 years is that – unless one is a good housekeeper, which I’m NOT –
ONE junk drawer morphs into FOUR!
(The one we had set up got too full, so my husband moved some stuff out of the drawer next to it and put the new junk in there. And then, the next, and the next….)
Now we have FOUR junk drawers in the kitchen –
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Drawer 1 – this is the ‘original’ junk drawer
Drawer 2
Drawer 3
Drawer 4
I know. We’re slobs. But we ARE trying to do better.
Today I will take EVERYTHING out. I’ll pitch a lot of things, relocate other things that shouldn’t have been there in the first place, and then try to organize what we’re keeping.
I’ll try to keep it to TWO junk drawers.
Junk drawers will never be ‘neat,’ but we are wasting lots of valuable space.
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