Organizing my own personal chaos is about managing life as a mother and also trying to tackle the household duties as well. There are plenty of rooms, closets, and drawers in your home, that need attention and tidying on a routine basis. And whether you are a Mom, Dad, Grandparent or College Student, we all seem to have one common area that is always in total chaos – The Junk Drawer! Mine is right in the hub of my house, where there is the most action. And that is exactly where most people dump those stray items. As you can see from my below ‘before’ picture, I took the first steps in organizing my Junk Drawer by getting little baskets for the pens. Yet everything else is a total mess. Rubbermaid has a six-piece drawer organizer set, which comes with different sized compartments meant to tidy and organize your junk belongings.
Just released into stores in February, these interlocking drawers come in a variety of sizes and shapes, to suit any sized drawer {and many sizes of items too}. The beauty of these is that they stay together, both with the interlocking feature and also their foot grips which prevent drawer slidage. Yes, I just named it ‘drawer slidage’ and that just annoys me because it adds to the mess! I like the black color of these, as they will match any décor. The insides of the compartments have a tan colored gripper too, allowing items inside to slide about. Again, preventing that annoying slidage! As you can see from my picture, I do have wooden separators already in my drawer. I was pretty excited to see that our drawer had that. Yet I soon realized that those separators wasn’t enough, it just made a
‘Mess A’, ‘Mess B’ and so forth. I needed to group the items contained in the drawer more efficiently and the Rubbermaid Drawer Organizers did the trick. Neat and tidy! Why just the small ‘after’ picture of my drawer? Surprisingly, I was able to fit everything but 2 stacks of papers and notepads, into what you see here. My drawer is pretty much bare! {for now anyway}…
Rubbermaid has
3 key tips to having a functional Junk Drawer.
1) Don’t just toss any item in there, in any place. Have a designated spot for keys, batteries, lists, change etc. This is a great habit to form, then it stays neater for longer and makes finding things easier
2) Don’t toss items in there that do belong somewhere else. Take a little extra time to rightfully put things in their place. If it belongs in the junk drawer, go ahead.
3) Clean out the junk drawer every once in a while. You’ll be surprised at what you find {or think you have lost}!
Rubbermaid would like to send one {1} My Organized Chaos reader their own 6 -piece Drawer Organizer set.
To Enter, Tell me which room is the most chaotic in your house, and what Rubbermaid product could help you
organize it
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My garage is a disaster. I don’t think one more item could even fit in it. I could really use the Corner Tool Tower from Rubbermaid.
My kitchen is the most disorganized and I need HELP! I like the Interlocking Mesh Drawer Organizers and they would work wonders for my kitchen drawers.
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My kitchen is one of the most chaotic places in my house. I’d love the Modular Canisters to organize one cupboard in particularly (the one that houses the nuts, raisins etc). Currently we have containers of various sizes, jars etc all mishmashed in the cupboard. Thanks for the giveaway.
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My kitchen cupboards are so unorganized and it drives me batty!! I could definately use the ‘lid and pan organizer’ .. for starters!
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My kitchen storage is a mess. I could use the Stick & Store suspension basket
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Our garage is the worse place. It needs a good cleaning and straightening up.
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The most chaotic room in my house is my bedroom. I think the Classic Configurations Closet Kits would help me organize.
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I really could use a junk drawer organizer system! I was just looking at my junk drawer yesterday thinking – time to clean this out again!
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Most chaotic room= mudroom (since we don’t have one- EVERYTHING spills into the garage, hallway, and laundry room). I would most use the tool rack.
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My kitchen is the most chaotic room in my house because its too small. Adjustable Gadget Caddy would be helpful.
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Our pantry definitely needs some cleaning and organizing! The modular canisters would work well and help me find food when I need to!
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My messiest room is sadly enough my Master bedroom (closet).
My kitchen drawer is the messiest and I would love to have one of these organizers to organize that space.
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The living room, probably. Everybody spends some certain amount of time there, so chaos it is
Forgot to add that the Clever Store Basic Latch – Opaque Lid would certainly be helpful
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My Dh’s tool area is the most chaotic by far. I can see the bulk storage bins beiing useful to get it all sorted.
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The kitchen is DEFINITELY the most chaotic and unorganized room in my house. The rubbermaid Adjustable Silverware Caddy would be a sweet addition to help get stuff in it’s place!
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One particular closet in the kitchen is the worst so I think the Adjustable Over the Door Organizer would help!
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I have all My main floor organized but MY CRAFT ROOM of over 300 rubber stamps, paper paper paper,scrapbook supplies tons of stickers, envelopes , punches, scissors…..Help please
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