Everyone has one. A junk drawer. Most of the time these receptacles of all that is unknown are located in the kitchen. A drawer at the end of cabinet space just perfect for throwing all manner of odds and ends into.

Chances are you use your junk drawer to hold important items too. Spare keys, tape, batteries, cell phone chargers. You might have some pretty important items in that junk drawer that it would benefit you to keep track of.

So jot a note in your schedule to make time to clean out the junk drawer. You don?t need all day or even a few hours (unless your junk drawer is really a junk closet). About fifteen minutes to half an hour is all it takes to get a junk drawer in order.

The day or weekend before you?ve made plans to attack your junk drawer drop by your local dollar store and pick up a few shallow small binds to fit into your drawer. If you are unsure or worried about getting ones that are too big measure them before hand and be sure and take your tape measure with you when shopping.

Take a visual stock of your junk drawer and decide what kinds of categories you would like. Batters? Tape? Candles? etc.

Remove everything from your junk drawer. Lay it out on the counter in front of you. Get a damp rag or a treated dust cloth and clean that junk drawer. If you?ve been just throwing things into it chances are it could be pretty dusty in there.

Once your drawer is all cleaned out lay out your new bins in there. They don?t have to completely fill the junk drawer. Just provide a base for keeping things orderly.

Now categorize your items. Throw out whatever needs to be thrown out. Arrange the rest of your belongings in the little bins.

Pat yourself on the back and show all your family members the great thing you accomplished. Put a little sign on the front that reads ?keep this junk drawer neat!?