The Dreaded Junk Draw

My Junk Draw

Junk Draw, Catch All, Fibber Magee, whatever you call it... We all (with the exception of my dad❤️) have one!  About once a year I TRY to clean and organize my junk draw but it never lasts for more than a couple weeks. Mine is overwhelmingly messy right now (refer to picture) so it's time to clean it, but this time I've picked up some new tricks to help me get organized and stay organized (hopefully). And to help you do the same!

So, to start with, I took out as much of the "junk" that ended up in the draw due to my laziness and relocated these items to their proper home. Then, I threw out the larger pieces of trash. Now that I think about it, it may have been easier to pick out the trash first, but I still achieved the same end result. 

After picking through SOME of the junk I dumped the whole draw out on to a table. I then wiped all the crumbs and dust from the empty draw, paying special attention to the corners. 

Now for the fun part, organizing!! The inspiration for this project was some draw organizers I found at, you guessed it, the Dollar Tree. There were a few colors I could choose from, but the color wasn't a big concern for me.  They also had metal wire basket type draw organizer, but I decided on the plastic organizers so that none of the smaller items would fall through the bottom. 

The next step was deciding on what REALLY belongs in that draw. I decided on only trying to keep items in there that I need easy access to or don't fit in other organizational categories. There was a lot of stuff in my draw that did not belong or was trash, so that made organizing what did belong very easy!  From there I just started grouping like items together in like piles. This gave me a better idea of what I was really going to keep in this jungle of a draw.


On a totally unrelated note, I think I have a chapstick problem! I had 9 tubes of Burt's Beeswax in my junk draw. I guess I need to do inventory before I buy anymore chapstick!

Holy Chapstick, Batman!

After that, I simply placed draw organizers in the draw.  Then I began putting the items that I have decided belong in and around the draw organizers.  As I said before, my junk draw caught a lot of stuff that didn't really belong there, so this was the easiest part of the process for me. 
 

My draw looks amazing! Now, I just need to keep it that way.  Do you have any tips to help me keep an organized Junk Draw?  I just KNOW this will not last...Help!

Finished Product