Dejunking the Junk Drawer

For most homes it's that one drawer that holds everything that doesn't have a home, and in some cases it holds items that wandered off too far from it's home. The Junk Drawer!

Now on our last Blog Show we talked about Dejunking 101. During the show, you'll hear me rustling around in the back ground cleaning out my junk drawer. It had been about 6-8 mths since the last time I had gone through it but after reading an article titled How Your Junk Drawer Could Set Your House on Fire, I had decided now is a better time than any to rifle through there again to maintain my family's safety.

Before

Since Renee and I had just went over two methods of dejunking: 15 minutes at a time or a 27-fling boogie, I sorted the contents into two categories.

Keeps

First we have the keep category. As you can see, it's the standard "I need a tool to fix this fast so I'll stash it in the most common place" junk drawer. Things from flashlights, batteries, wrenches, hammer, nails, and screws. All of this is used on a common basis.

Next is the trash category. I personally skipped the donate since most of what you find in the drawer (or should find) is either necessity or garbage.

Trash

Now the black pieces, I have no clue what those went to and to be honest I doubt I'll remember 5 years from now either. The coiled object was from our project when we replaced the screen door and this clay tape acts as a water barrier, from what I've been told. Easily picked up at a hardware store, no sense in keeping it around for when the new door breaks.

Then there was... this!

I found out that it's a spark plug changing wrench do-hicky. I know, technical terms only. I also now know that it was used for my foreign car that has long since departed. It's now a tool that doesn't need a home, in my home. We have a neighbor down the way that has a similar car to my old one and it will be making the journey down the street. Whether the neighbor needs it, I'm not sure but if not, it will be his responsibility to find it a new home.

Back to the project. Being on air while doing this, I did it without a timer so the actual time it took to clean is unknown to me.

Ready for the finished product?

You can now see what I have because nothing is thrown in some sort of "The end of the world is now!" kind of fashion.

Just remember to keep batteries in their container from purchase or apply some electrical tape to the two charges of the 9v battery. Also contain those screws, nuts & bolts, or nails for easy retrieval and less 'jingle' when shutting that drawer.

Happy Cleaning
~Clover