Before & After: How I Transformed My Junk Drawer Without Buying a Single Organizer — Kitchen Organization

This, my friends, was the sorry state of my kitchen junk drawer before I decided to organize it — a mess of miscellanea, and as far away from "neat and tidy" as it's possible to get. In fact, it's like it saw the words "neat and tidy" and just ran in the other direction — fast. As in, sprinted. It was sad.

When I finally got around to clearing the drawer out, I took Marie Kondo's advice and decided not to buy anything special for it: no organizers or dividers; no little boxes or bowls or containers. I'd have to rely on items I already owned to tidy up and organize whatever was left over.

This is how I organized my junk drawer without buying a thing.

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