Today, I decided to do something that I have been wanting to do for a long time - organize the junk drawer in our kitchen.

I saw the post on Organizing Junkie about organizing a junk drawer back in August and figured that some day I would pick up some containers and do it.

Then, I got the book Organic Housecleaning, by Ellen Sandbeck and she talked about cutting empty boxes to use for drawer organizing, so I started saving my empty Twining’s Darjeeling tea boxes with the hopes that some day I would get my junk drawer organized.

Today was that day!

Here is my junk drawer before.

And here is my junk drawer now!

I kept a screwdriver, a pair of scissors, and a couple of working pens in the front. On the side are knit trivets. And there are a few things in the way back - a small screwdriver kit, two more large screwdrivers, a paintbrush(?), and a calculator that never gets used, but everything else is in the tea boxes - and sorted.

I am going to love having all of my binder clips in one place. I clip every opened bag, especially in the summer when we are prone to ant infestations, and I hate fishing around in the drawer for one.

This is one project I highly recommend.

(Linking to Laura’s junk drawer post, I now see that she also suggests at the end of the post to use small boxes, including tea, if you do not have containers.)