We have about a month until the 2020 presidential election. The country is polarized and people are on edge. And to make things worse, President Trump has just tested positive for Covid-19. Won’t it be great when the election is over, and we can stop fretting about who will win? But, we still have a month of social isolation until that happens. How do we keep our minds off politics between now and then? My solution is keeping busy with a project: decluttering one drawer, one day at a time, until the election.
Just counted: I have 27 total drawers exclusively holding only my belongings. : Bedroom dressers, eleven. . Bathroom vanity, seven. File cabinet, three. Desk, six. When I run out of my own drawers, I can find plenty in the kitchen to take me through the next thirty days.
Sorting out drawers is a formidable task. There are so many small, miscellaneous items . Today, I started with my top bathroom vanity. Like most junk filled drawers, it is hard to separate the items into categories.
Since my bathroom is also my plug in station, the drawer is full of various wires and ports for recharging phones, kindle, hearing aids, TENS, MP3players, and therapeutic devices for my knees. Those are keepers.. They stay, but they don’t occupy an entire drawer. Other things were dispensable: Tubes of old cosmetic items , never used up: hair mousse, lipsticks, creams and lotions; worn out nail boards. You get it. The list goes on and on. I ended up with full bag of trash. When finished, it still didn’t look like a Martha Stewart drawer, but least it’s not a jumbled up mess.