Thursday, March 3, 2011

Got 15? Challenge

A few days ago I read this post - Got 15? - a challenge to take just 15 minutes to organize a junk drawer. Just picturing my "junk drawer" in my head made me weak and I was NOT willing to tackle that project. But, this morning the man of the house was looking for something and this is how our "art drawer" ended up after his search (he never found what he was looking for, by the way).
Before:
So, I couldn't just let this mess stay on the table all day, and putting everything back seemed pointless unless there was some organizing involved. So, I went through and threw out all of the broken crayons (yes, I know they work just as well as non-broken ones, but try and tell kids that) and those no-name, waxy crayons from who-knows-where. I went through every pen and marker and threw out all the dried up ones, and managed to get it all back in the drawer with some semblance of order. I'm not sure it will stay like this for long, but for now it makes me happy.
After:
(You would not believe how many teeny-tiny erasers I found. Landon had fun collecting them all in a pile and made an "eraser farm". However, I had to burst his bubble and throw out a bunch of those useless, but cute, teeny-tiny erasers. Good riddance!)
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So, do you have 15 minutes to tackle even one drawer? I'll have to admit that this took me a bit longer than 15 minutes - going through each pen took me some time. Shwew!

3 comments:

Camille said...

Awesome job. I recently did that to one of areas that has been bugging me. It felt great to do it.

Andy said...

Wow - I hope it can stay that well organized - good job!

Leon Visnaw said...

Looks like I need to make huge messes to get them cleaned up ;);)