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It’s drizzly today.

And a half-day of school for the boys.

Combine those two things and you have . . . the perfect day for a nap.

Buuuutttt, I felt like I should organize something.  Partly because I have this keep-myself-accountable-by-blogging-thing going, and partly because I’ve been doing well at organizing SOMETHING each week for a while now.

Mostly, though, it’s because I like to participate in Orgjunkie.com’s 52 Weeks of Organizing.

And if a noble desire to provide a wonderful home for my family doesn’t motivate me on a particular day, I’m fine with ruthless ambition taking over the job.

In an effort to get myself in that darkened room as soon as possible, I searched the house for the very smallest disorganized space I could find.  There are plenty, but I was going for speed here.

I thought about the silverware drawer, since it has been getting on my nerves lately.

I was afraid it would require too much energy.

I thought about the drawer in my china cabinet where I keep my table-cloths.

Pretty sure I haven’t opened it since the last time I purged in there.  No, things are not folded to Mama Laundry’s standards, but I’m fine with it.

A random cabinet in the kitchen?

Yes, it obviously needs work, but would require floor-sitting and/or knee bending.   I’m not in that zone today.

I slammed the door pretty quickly.

I finally chose this random drawer that is part of the built in hutch/cabinet/whatever in our breakfast nook.  It’s not in an easily accessible place, so it naturally attracts rarely-used-random-items.

Honestly, I immediately removed the stickers and shoved placed them two drawers down, where there were more stickers.  Wherever I would look first . . . that’s my rule.

This drawer didn’t take long at all.  I pitched the vast majority of stuff I found.  And the other things, like markers and a single cloth napkin, were easy to re-locate to their proper homes.

A few things I found:

Lots of flower doo-dads . . .  bought with the intention of making hair bows for my daughter.  I suffer from Delusions of Craftiness at times.  

I found the instruction book for our video camera.  I can GUARANTEE you that if I had needed this, I would never have looked in this drawer.

And lots of napkin rings.  It became clear that this was my Napkin Ring Drawer.  Not that I have enough of any one set of napkin rings (or even of cloth napkins) to create a formal table.  I also suffer from Delusions of Fanciness.  

I did choose to get rid of the badly tarnished set.  I think that’s a good sign.  At least I’m not delusional enough to think I would polish them.

I found two blue marble eggs . . . just in time to put out for Easter.

Delusions of The Ability to Handle Seasonal Decor.

And here’s my after:

Almost everything that was in this drawer went to the trash or its real home.   I’m happy to have an almost-empty-very-small drawer.

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