Kitchen Drawers
The Junk DrawerNow that you’ve tackled the cabinets, you’re ready for the big leagues — the junk drawer. How you handle your mail and household paperwork determines how junky this drawer gets. Mail and household paperwork. If you keep your bills and other paperwork organized in the kitchen, you need a designated area.Assess. Take a day or two before handling the junk drawer. For many of us, we enter the house and dump our mail on a kitchen counter. This can lead to an ongoing mess. For the next day or two, figure out where you’re leaving it and where a better place to put it could be. Where is your junk mail and paperwork winding up? Is it organized? Would a folio file help? Is there a place to place it? You need to figure out. Maybe you need to start a new habit of sorting it next to a recycling bin.Clean out and relocate. Take everything out of your junk drawer. Put things that belong elsewhere away — in the toolbox, your desk, your craft area, in your kid’s backpack. Are there pizza coupons from 1999 in there? Menus from take out joints? Recycle those, you can find them all online when you need to order in dinner. Organize. A silverware organizer can be handy in a junk drawer fo...
Cooking Utensils and ToolsDesignate a drawer next to the range for your cooking utensils, hang a utensil rod or simply corral them in a utensil container near the range.
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