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Challenge: Throw away 10 – Office Drawer

I received great feedback from the last challenge Throw away 10 things cluttering your kitchen and I can’t believe that you are all asking for more challenges!!  I’ll try to put a challenge to you weekly, we’ll see how well you can do!!

Today’s challenge, throw 10 things away from the top office drawer.  The drawer that has too many rubber bands, staples that have fallen out of the box, old pens, broken pencils, one to many notepads.  You can do it, and while you’re at it, try organising it back into some order.

Again, I would love to hear what you have thrown away in the comment below!

My list of 10 items:

  1. Little staple pieces
  2. Old tupperware demonstrator stamp
  3. Rubberbands
  4. Dried up blue-tak
  5. Broken staple removerer
  6. Moved 2 extra sharpeners to the ‘school supplies box’
  7. Old pencil case
  8. I have 1 x new p-touch (label machine) tape if anybody would like it.
  9. Pieces of plastic wrapping
  10. Dust and dirt, gave it a good clean

I struggled to get 10 but I made it!!

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  • annette

    As a rule of thumb and an effort to keep law and order in my drawers – I throw out 10% of its content if I am having a tidy up, and 20% if I am having a clean out. Makes a difference and always means there’s enough room for anything new to add or old to rebirth!! If you tell yourself you can’t add anything new til you move something out it’s a good mindset to have when you shop as you then work on buying NEEDS and not WANTS :-) Works for me !!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1052971890 Gaye Susanne Murphy

    No longer in use phone charging cables, fluoro orange half used avery label sheet, old sticky notelets that had lost their stickiness, little staple bits – assorted sizes, ruined paperclips, old staple box – I consolidated 2 half used boxes into one box, a plastic bag – it had contained refill inks, a dummy?!, 3 handmade cards that I’d given to my hubby – they’re going into the “usual” place he puts them & a fan balancing kit…

  • Regan

    Two old printer cartridges (why would I keep them?), Backspace key from old old computer (?), bank card from an old account, deposit slip, old phone cover, photos (filed not thrown away), letter from 2008, old glasses cleaning thingy covered from ink from said printer cartridges, Pantene 3 minute miracl treatment moved to bathroom – as you would.

  • http://huistuis-unschool.blogspot.com/ Esther Lourens

    Blow up balloons and give to children to play with; jewelry to box; watch in handbag to get new battery – but I don’t wear it, so rather “out”; old notes in recycle paper bin; mooncup pamphlet to above said bin; old slides – to scrapbook box; toothmouse letters to be scanned; flute to music box; pens sorted; dust and disrt. One drawer ready to be packed for the big move south.