Organize Your Junk Drawer

Learn tips to organize your junk drawer. There is nothing wrong with having a junk drawer. But you still need to organize your junk drawer to be able to see what's in it.

♦If your junk drawer is full of smaller items, a ready-made junk drawer organizer tray might work for you. Organize.com sells a Junk Drawer Organizer (pictured to the left) that comes with more than half a dozen compartments. It expands from 9" to 16" to fit your drawer size.

♦Organize.com also sells a Wood Junk Drawer Organizer that has a white washable bottom lining.

♦And Organize.com sells a Sliding Junk Drawer Organizer that has 13 compartments in its bottom tray and a top sliding tray with nine more compartments--so it's actually two levels.

♦These are also great drawer trays for holding and separating small office supplies and small craft supplies.

♦Make a rule that when the drawer gets full, you can't move to another drawer. If you want to add an item to a full junk drawer, then you must throw out an item that's already in the drawer. This is your chance to be messy, BUT contained messy.

♦Assign each family member their own junk drawer. A storage cart or storage chest on wheels with four or five drawers is perfect. Label the outside of each drawer with the owner's name. Or tape their photograph to the front of the drawer. Or hang a stringed label from the handle with the drawer "owner's" name.

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