Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Wednesday, August 6, 2014: Junk Drawers

Happy birthday to my wonderful Hubby!  I just wish he was here to celebrate instead of travelling on business.  Oh well, we will celebrate on the weekend instead.

Babygirl and I are homebodies today.  That is probably a good thing since I couldn't sleep at all last night.  I think I finally fell asleep around 5 am.  Not fun.  I am definitely going to need a nap this afternoon.  

In light of the lack of function that comes after a night of insomnia, I needed a simple task to keep me busy after Babygirl and I ate lunch.  First we took a walk, then I decided to tackle the junk drawers.

Yes, drawers.  For reasons I still cannot fathom, we have devoted the three drawers on our peninsula to random chaos.  I think part of the reason is that we do not have a home office (our laptop sits on the peninsula most of the time and goes in the laundry room when we have guests) and all that computer stuff needs to go somewhere, preferably near the computer.

Just for the sake of humiliation, here is what they looked like this morning:



Not as awful as they could be, I suppose, but like I said I needed an easy task, and they DID need some straightening! 

So, when we returned from our walk I started with the first drawer.  It mostly holds writing implements and tools.  It is also frequently where I dump our phones to get them off the counter.  I took everything out.  Did I really need four tubes of hand lotion in there?  (No.)  Do I really need four things of fish food?  (Maybe.  Our fish was originally a very picky eater.  I kept three of them, but two are now at the very back of the drawer.)  There was some miscellaneous stuff that didn't belong in the drawer at all, so that was easy to return to its proper places.  Babygirl had several broken bracelets in this drawer; I removed them from the cording and dumped the beads in her button box.  When I was done, and had added some additional dividers the drawer looked much better, and had taken considerably less time than I thought it would consume.

Hooray!  So I moved on to the other two drawers:



Still not perfect, but much better!  Now I just need to find a better solution for the cords…

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