It’s ok to have a “junk drawer”! We are human, for heaven’s sake, and especially if you have children, there can be an almost continual influx of small items they’ve received from birthday parties, school celebrations, Happy Meal toys, grandma…and they don’t want to part with them just yet. In my house a lot of these items accumulate in the kitchen and they wind up in the junk drawer. At any given time it contains magnets for my fridge that are not currently being used, a baggie with apple and orange seeds that my daughter wants to plant (she actually grew an apple tree from one of these seeds last year!), soda can tops my daughter is saving for a future craft project, a few cards my son made at school, wine bottle corks, half-burned birthday candles…stuff like that.
It’s ok to have a “junk drawer”, but limit yourself to only one, and commit to cleaning it out periodically. Anything really important and worth saving should have a permanent home elsewhere, not in the junk drawer. Sort through it while you’re waiting for the water to boil for the pasta one evening—it really won’t take long, and you may as well squeeze in a little productive time while you can!
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