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I have one, my Mom has one, my co-workers have one and I bet you have too.  I’m talking about junk drawers.  You know, that one drawer in the kitchen or laundry room that you put everything in that doesn’t have a home or where you put stuff when suddenly company is at the door.

I haven’t opened my junk drawer in months but today I was looking for a little rubber foot that goes on my espresso knock box.  My junk drawer had old broken birthday candles, a lighter, shoe laces, keys to who knows what, and two dozen miscellaneous items that I don’t think I have looked at in the past year and a half.  I did however find some velcro that I needed for a project so that was a good thing and I found the little rubber foot I was looking for.

I dumped out the entire drawer and threw most of the stuff away.  I put the shoe laces in my dresser which is near my shoes in the closet.  I put the velcro with my sewing stuff and the lighter didn’t work so I tossed it.  By the end of my little clean up I didn’t have anything to put in my “junk drawer” so since it is in the laundry room, I put my dish towels away in it.  It’s nice to have that little mess cleaned up.

Your Daily 15 – Take a few minutes and go through your junk drawer.  Throw away all of the pens, lighters and batteries that don’t work anymore.  Put as much stuff as you can away where they should really should go.   Although you may still  have stuff in the drawer, once you’ve cleaned it out  it will have usable stuff instead pens without ink, broken crayons and used up note pads.  Now rename it “Utility Drawer” and remember that it isn’t for junk anymore.

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