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One Drawer. Two drawers. Whatever.

March 22, 2012 By Dana White | 6 Comments

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It’s been a busy week, and after the 90-minute transformation of my master bedroom . . . I really didn’t feel like decluttering any more this week.

At all.

But then I remembered Simple Mom’s Project Simplify and checked what the area of focus was for this week.  Closets, drawers, and counters.

I kind of took it as an “or drawers” though, and decided that I could force myself to do one drawer.

Besides, I’ve pretty much decided to have a garage sale in the next month or so, and that means I need to be more purposeful about going through hidden places that tend to collect totally useful stuff that I don’t actually need.

Y’know, prime garage sale inventory.

Soooo, I chose a small drawer which rarely gets opened and is between two other drawers that rarely get opened.

I was determined to do just one drawer.

I got out my sorting supplies, and made quick work of the first drawer.  Like, five minutes of quick work.

Mostly, I removed crafty stuff.  I suffer from Delusions of Craftiness, but a lot of this was stuff that I did use at one time.

There were quite a few bow-making supplies.  I could fully let go of that delusion since it’s a rare day when my almost-six-year-old daughter wants to wear a bow.

 

Then there were the stickers.  The stickers were the reason I ended up doing two drawers.

The answer to my first (of only two) decluttering questions is that I would look for stickers in this/these drawers.  One or the other.  Or one and then the other.

I had no problem shoving the few sticker sheets into the other drawer and calling that progress.  But when I opened that blankety-blank “other” drawer to do the shoving, I saw how it really needed the same treatment.

In another three minutes, the second drawer was done.

Basically, I got rid of everything except some (truly) keepsake Valentines, a super-awesome cheese server thingy I got in New Zealand back in my single-girl-world-traveler days, and the glue gun.

Oh, and the stickers.

There you go.  Two drawers done in about eight minutes.

One more small box of clutter leaving the house.

 

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  1. Leena says

    March 23, 2012 at 12:55 am

    Well done on such a short amount of time.
    Why is the glue gun and the cheese thingy stored in the same drawer? Makes no sense to me 🙂 but I guess it does for you.

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    • Nony says

      March 23, 2012 at 7:05 am

      Hmmm. No, it really doesn’t make sense, does it?

      Except that I would look in that drawer for both of them, and that’s what I have to go with! I’ve accepted that going with how my brain my brain works over what’s most “logical” helps me!

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  2. Dottie says

    March 23, 2012 at 8:11 am

    Great job! Just the inspiration I need to get some decluttering of my own done today. 🙂

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    March 23, 2012 at 11:47 am

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      March 24, 2012 at 2:35 pm

      Oh Terri! I’m so sorry! But you can earn lots of swagbucks anyway!

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  4. Cathie says

    March 24, 2012 at 9:03 am

    I have a “junk” drawer in my kitchen that needs to get cleaned out really REALLY badly. I have been putting it off for about 2 years now. I think my hestiation is that i know there are so many things in there that need to get put other places (kinda like my car right now) and I am afraid that I will get side tracked before I get them all put in their vaious places, making it worse that it was to begin with by being spread all over the house! Wow, that is a lot of Slob Brain at work in that justification!

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