ANATOMY OF A JUNK DRAWER

Greetings, Cool Peeps:

Everyone knows the adage, "A place for everything, and everything in its place," right? In theory, that's really super advice. If I could implement it, I would never have to sort through stuff, never deal with clutter in my closets or my desk, and just live in a perfectly ordered world. Yeah, sure!

Today, as I clean out my junk drawer on the left side of my desk, I'm not only asking myself how all of that stuff got there and why it doesn't have a "place," but I'm also...