I tend to really gather items up in the sewing room. I told you all the other day I had picked up more of the cute storage boxes for fabric and odds and ends for the sewing room. I started to organize the other day and then got back to it yesterday. I used one of the boxes for scraps – I had several boxes that had been overflowing with scraps and I couldn’t get the lids to stay tight so I got that taken care of and the new box is only half full so more room there for more. I now have 8 boxes with scraps in them.
Next on the list was cleaning out the two drawers of my cutting table. What a mess! I tend to toss things in the drawers until it gets to the point that I can hardly get them open and can’t find anything unless I empty the drawers out. Two of my new boxes were assigned to this mess.
these are two boxes after they were loaded up with "usable junk"
the drawers after the "usable junk" was removed. Yes that is a chocolate tin in the drawer but it doesn't have chocolate in it anymore I use it to store used dull rotary blades. When it is full it will be taped shut and tossed. The gum container has used needles in it - same there when it gets full I tape it shut and toss it out.
this tall standing box with the little dividers in it use to have some of the "junk" in it and I had it laying the opposite way on a shelf - it took up usable space
I think this well be used eventually for hand dyed fabric, there are some fat eighths that I want, I think if I roll them up a certain way or fold them nicely they can be displaced in this decoratively and when I need them for applique I will easily be able to see the colors I want to use.
this is inside one of the boxes - all the marking tools and things to draw with, room for a lot more as you can see. No these really aren't junk and they will be used, but when it is all laying in a drawer you can't find anything and now at least it is labeled so I can take the box down and dig through to find what I need.
now this on the other hand is the box labeled odds and ends! and now you see what I mean when I say - is it junk or not. I have a feeling some of the items will eventually be used - but some of it - who knows, I will hang on to all of it right now - just in case 
at least now it is all in one place and again if I am looking for something that I really think I have and can't find - this is the box to look in.
How do you all decide when to toss something and what to keep? Some of these things I have had for absolutely ages. Yes the round white plastic thing with the metal screw in it – yes I need to keep that there are four of them and they belong to the sew-ezi table – something to do with using a different sewing machine maybe? I would have to look at the instructions which is in the storage case but I hadn’t room in it for these, well there is room but I thought they might fall out or something – I just know they shouldn’t be thrown away – just in case
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