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In the past, some experts have said, “Thou shalt not have a junk drawer in thy kitchen.” Perhaps you’ve been diligent but unsuccessful in this task, and your junk has migrated from the kitchen drawer to the desk drawer or just sits in a heap atop the clothes dryer. There’s simply no need to do away with your family junk drawer entirely. Just use any type of plastic basket or cutlery organizer to categorize your junk, and clean it out routinely.
The main purpose of eliminating a junk drawer in your home is that it’s like a miscellaneous folder in your file cabinet: it gets too full too fast, and it’s one of the last places you would look for something. That’s why organizing professionals and efficiency experts have been so prejudiced against junk drawers in the past. But if you use it sparingly, promise to clean it out once a month, and stop pouring when it’s full, it’s okay to keep it.
Excerpted from Common Sense Organizing: A Step-by-Step Program for Taking Control of Your Home and Your Life by Debbie Williams(Champion Press, Ltd. www.championpress.com).
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Debbie Williams, is an organizing coach and author of the book Put Your House in Order. She is the publisher of 
