According to the evolutionary biologists*, right after humans woke up with opposable thumbs, they used those thumbs to open a drawer in their kitchen and fill it with crap they didn’t need.

We all have one—a drawer that either by accident or design becomes the “junk drawer.” The one into which we throw random things that soon meld into a sea of mangled paper clips, empty tape rolls, and ...

There might be nearly as many junk drawer philosophies as there are junk drawers. Is it a place for stuff without a home but which you might use occasionally, or even frequently? Or is it just a place ...

Even the most pristinely organized and Marie Kondo’d among us still have a junk drawer—that place where tangled headphones, scrapbooking tape, Costa Rican coins, and one random golf ball coexist ...

Everyone has one: the ubiquitous kitchen junk drawer. It’s a place where birthday candles and tape measures mingle. Band-Aids and chip clips run amok. And somehow, every odd cooking utensil, gift bag ...

The humble junk drawer is a fixture in almost every home. True to its name, the junk drawer is a place to store everything that doesn’t have a natural home elsewhere. But the junk drawer also serves ...

Decluttering: A Journey to My Three Organized Drawers You know that moment when you open a drawer and an avalanche of mystery ...

In my grandmother’s house, in the second bedroom, there is a drawer. Whenever we visit her, I derive a small thrill from opening it: the amount of random crap accumulated there is simply stunning.

Maybe it’s in your kitchen or your bedroom dresser or even your foyer table—but everybody’s got one: a catch-all place for all the stuff you accumulate (flyers, bills, sticky socks—just me?). “Junk ...

We all have at least one of those dreaded, jam-packed drawers filled to the brim with ... what even is it? Half a deck of playing cards? A silicone straw to help save the turtles? Does this pen have ...

Everyone has a junk drawer, but once a year (at least) it’s nice to go through and clean it out. Here, I share what my junk drawer looked like before and after it’s transformation and share tips for ...

You know you’ve got one. Everyone has one. There is a drawer in your kitchen or bedroom that is a catch-all for anything and everything. The place where we throw things quickly to clean off our ...