Unfuck Your Habitat

flaneurinthecity:

Last week my blog featured its first beauty tutorial for lazy people like me who aren’t into Martha Stewart. It guest starred this judgmental cock (as in rooster, my delightful pervs) and a few days after I posted, I realized he needed a rub down (a cleaning! C’mon now.) He made his Internet debut all dusty! Poor little fellow.

Which got me in a mood. An unfucking mood. I tackled the kitchen, the cock (rooster!), and the foyer before I realized I should have taken pictures. But after my next break I busted out the camera to capture this drawer unfucking.

I’ve been using the top drawer of the antique dresser I inherited from my grandfather as my medicine cabinet and catch-all, since our bathroom has zero drawers and limited under-the-sink space. The old top dresser drawer rattles with every pull, and when I shut it, everything inside topples over. Clearly, it needed to be unfucked.

Step 1: Dump everything out on the bed!

Beautiful. Hello, Amy Brown jewelry box! You’ve been hiding. Note the wrapping paper? That’s going to come in handy in a moment.

Step 2: Dig through the closet for Amazon boxes that will fit into the drawer. Find two that work. Shoe boxes would probably have worked as well, but we seem to be drowning in Amazon boxes.

This one fits nicely with the basket-thingy I already had in there.

Step 3: Cut the flaps off the box and cover with wrapping paper!

OK, so … this one doesn’t have an image because I put on an old episode of True Blood while I worked and got a bit distracted. I don’t know why.

But tutorials on how to cover boxes with paper are plentiful on the Internet.

Step 4: Organize your shit!

BOOM. A place for everything, and a little extra room on the sides to grow. It’s a little blurry, sorry about that. But! Look! Organized!

Step 5: Go ahead and dust everything while you’re at it. Might as well tidy up the whole dresser.

What’s this? Lovely. That’s what it is.

Thanks for reading!

(Poor ASkars. He’s a perfectly fine looking dude, and people insist on photoshopping his head on someone else’s body.)