Ace of Space: Clean Out Your Junk Drawer

Junk drawers are spaces in your home where random stuff is stored. The stuff might be useful, but it doesn't have a designated home and the result is a drawer full of clutter.

For those of you with a cluttered junk drawer, consider the following strategies to clean it out:

1. Sort and remove your stuff.

After you've taken all the stuff out of your junk drawer, the Everyday Minimalist suggests going through each pile and throwing out "what is really too small or unable to be useful for anything in the foreseeable future. Test what you can to make sure they still work such as pens for ink. If that red pen is dried out & useless, now is the time to toss it!"