I hate drawers. Its too easy to stash crap in them. Knowing that, I've made a concerted effort to minimize the total amount of drawers in my place. No big cabinets. No dressers. No place to hide anything except for two small filing cabinets... for business and important stuff. As a result, if I end up with small items...like maybe a cool keychain, a roll of stamps, a couple of flash drives...I have to deal with them immediately. I end up walking around, looking like a human bobblehead trying to figure out where to stash the little buggers. I'm forced to deal with everything and make a decision about each item. Usually.
There's one small drawer next to my desk and despite my best efforts, it manages to fill up with doo-dads in about a week. USB cables, extra keys, a spare case for my phone, a checkbook cover...Darn it. Drawers are evil.
Yesterday, I glanced into one of my file drawers...it was full to overflowing with gosh-knows-what so I got out the shredder and went to work. Bills from 2004, account statements from accounts long ago closed, instruction manuals from items I no longer owned, passcodes to long-defunct websites. Amazing. I cleared out a full cubic foot of space.... That's a stack of paper a foot tall...not bad. I felt much lighter despite having eaten lunch just a few minutes earlier. New problem though.....I've got more drawer space to drop crap into! The only solution might be to get rid of the whole cabinet.
Sometimes when I clear out houses I have to sort through the junk drawers. Often the contents at the rear have physically merged with the wood of the drawer itself resulting in an odd conglomeration of materials typically held together by old disintegrated rubber bands. Archaeologists 5,000 years from now will have a field day trying to decipher what the pencil-staple-paperclip-eraser-bottle of whiteout-ketchup packet-thumbtack-melted rubber band object was used for.
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| Cleaning it out isn't the solution. Get rid of the whole cabinet. |
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