hey it's Abby and today I'm going to be talking about our organized junk drawers
in our last house we had a little desk in our kitchen that held all the things
we needed like pens, pencils, all the boys items that they needed for school and
when we moved into this house we didn't have anything like that so last year all
during the school year whenever we needed something we were running up to
my office to get it or running down to Donnie's tools to get it and so before
school started this year I wanted to make sure I put together the drawers
that had everything we needed in it so we wouldn't be running all over the
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so I recently rearranged our kitchen a little bit and that gave me these two
drawers free to turn into our junk drawers and I love this project because
it's simple just about anybody can do it so I will walk you through the process I
went through to get these drawers neat and organized so the first thing I did
is sat down and I made a list of everything that we might want to keep
inside these drawers I had to know what I was working with and what kind of
space I had the next thing I did was measure the drawers so that I could
figure out what types of inserts or organizers that I could put inside let's
take a look at what I came up with
as you can see I put a drawer liner in the drawer just to make it a little
prettier and then I found these acrylic organizers these are actually from
Target and they were in the makeup section but I love them because they had
all different sections of different shapes and sizes where I could organize
my items but you could use organizers from just about anywhere you could cut
the bottoms off of cereal boxes and use those to organize you could go to the
dollar store and get little organizers whatever will fit the dimensions of your
drawers will work for organizing your stuff
once I had gathered up all of my different items and decided where they
were going to go inside my organizers I also made some labels for the bottoms of
the acrylic organizer so everybody in the house knows where everything goes
and they can put it back in the right spot
so the contents of your drawers might look a lot different from ours but here
are the things that we decided on that would be helpful to have in a central
location in our house so we always have access to them this drawer has a folder
with all of our boys school information in it anything that we might need to
access quickly goes in here so we can reach it then there is this organizer
with a couple of different items we have a multi-tool so we can use these
different screwdrivers if we're doing little projects around the house it's
also a flashlight so we can grab that quickly if we need it we have scissors
and whiteout so just some basic office supplies also rubber bands post-its and
tape this other drawer has more of our supplies we are always measuring things
I'm moving things around the house we always need measuring tape and we're
running down to Donnie's office or up to my office to get them and so we have a
measuring tape right here we'll always have it when we need it now
a stapler as well as stamps I feel like we are always out of stamps so I bought a
big roll we're keeping it in here we'll always have stamps when we need them
another thing that was kind of a thorn in my side were Box Tops we collect box
tops for our school but I didn't have anywhere, a designated place where I
could put them so I was always losing them or I could never find them when it
was time to turn them in so we have a spot just for them we can cut them out
put them in there and then time to send them into school we just
gather them up and send them in I also want to make sure we had a couple of
different types of writing utensils we use sharpies a lot to label the boys
items their sweatshirts or even you know their little pencil boxes or anything
that we're sending into school and needs to have their name on it so we have
sharpies for that we have pencils so the boys can grab them quickly for homework
and then pens for filling out checks or paperwork or any information that we
need a pen for that and then finally the last thing that we kept in our little
organizers were batteries of the most common types that we use in the items that
we have in this area of the house so we don't have to run around the house
looking for them anymore they're all right here and we can keep those stocked
and easily see when we're running low and need to get more so this system is
super simple like I said anybody can do it
but it will be a huge help this year during the school year to have all of
these things on hand easily where we can reach them often times with a junk drawer
you think of drawers that are overflowing and really cluttered and
stuffs falling out so it's really important to me to make sure that these
drawers were pretty they weren't jam-packed and full of
stuff so we could easily see everything that's in here
they look nice when we open it and it's easy to get to all of our items. Let me
know in the comments if there's anything else that you think would be helpful for
us to include in our drawers to have easy access to and let me know where you
keep all of these types of necessities in your own home. Before you go don't
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