Bring Order To Your Cluttered Drawers With A Cost-Free Hack You Never Saw Coming

If your bedroom nightstand, kitchen drawer, bathroom vanity, or any other drawer space is cluttered and chaotic, you need some containers to help you organize all your small items. While you could purchase drawer organizers, you can also make them from something you may already have in your home: product boxes from electronics and their lids. All you need are some tools and craft supplies to turn them into both aesthetic and functional pieces. After all, you may as well get your money's worth from that electronic, even if it means repurposing the box!

There is a constant running joke for people who save all of their electronic boxes, fearing that if they throw them away, they might be needed someday. The boxes your cell phone, tablet, wireless headphones, and computer came in are the biggest culprits. They take up unnecessary space in your home, but for some reason, they seem too valuable to get rid of. Some may keep them in case they want to sell their electronics down the line or have to return them for any reason. However, if you've been holding onto your boxes from old electronics for quite a while, this clever DIY hack will help you repurpose them. It's ideal for making the most of your junk drawer, but you can also use it in your bedroom, kitchen, office, or bathroom, too. You can use both the lids and bases and have each one serve a different purpose (for example, holding pens, clips, and rubber bands). 

You can make drawer organizers out of almost anything these days. For instance, you can use cardboard drink holders to keep drawers clear and organized or tissue boxes to get clutter-free drawers. This clever DIY also helps reuse an unused item in your home as well. Paper and craft supplies can be applied to decorate your boxes and make them look less like recyclables and more like kitschy DIY storage. Use decorative paper to line the insides (and outsides if you prefer), gluing it or using Mod Podge to keep it in place. Another option is to place decorative tape around the rims and fill the boxes with bubble wrap to cushion items. If you have a laptop or tablet box that's larger and longer than your smaller options, this can also work as your 'base tray', which you can fill with your remaining smaller containers. 

Some drawers, like those in the IKEA ALEX, can easily fit pieces of a tablet box, phone box, and wireless headphone box. If you don't have a drawer that fits both the top and bottom of a box, setting up the pieces in your drawer will be a bit like playing Tetris. You can change things around until you've created a functional layout and fill them with the appropriate accessories. Then, the box pieces that didn't fit in the drawer can be repurposed elsewhere in the home so nothing is wasted.