Fix the Junk Drawer in 15 Minutes

You are allowed one. It just needs rules.

I defend the junk drawer. Every home needs a place for the tape and the takeout chopsticks. Mine just has borders now.

The sheet, in text

• 2 min: Empty it onto the counter. All of it. Wipe the drawer.
• 5 min: Sort into five piles. Tools, tape and glue, batteries. Pens, and belongs elsewhere.
• 3 min: Bin the obvious. Dead pens, mystery keys, old menus.
• 4 min: Divide and return. One slot per pile. Small boxes work if you have no dividers.
• 1 min: Rehome the strays. Walk the last pile to where it lives.

New rule: if the drawer will not close, something leaves.

What I would actually use for this

Do the sheet first. If you still need something afterwards, these are the ones from my own shortlist that fit this job.

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