JUNK DRAWER — You don’t need one if you have this system

You can easily eliminate your Junk Drawer(s).   Here are a few steps to rid yourself of the junk drawer dependency.  If you have time, empty the drawer entirely and clean the drawer base. If you only have a few minutes, do the following steps:   

1. Get trays that will help you sort the mess.  Target, Walmart, Home Deport and Lowes all have wonderful shallow plastic sorting bins for this purpose.  

2. Sort items into categories.  Here are a few: office supplies, keys, electronics, small tools, receipts, business cards.

3. Toss broken, old unused items, old receipts not needed for doing taxes

4. Photograph keepsakes 

5. Store the memorabilia — use bins for these as well