Everyone has one: the ubiquitous kitchen junk drawer. It’s a place where birthday candles and tape measures mingle. Band-Aids and chip clips run amok. And somehow, every odd cooking utensil, gift bag ...

Maybe it’s not so bad to have a junk drawer of stray items. But wouldn’t it be better if those items had a home? There is hope for the hopeless junk drawer! Here is the trick to organizing the junk ...

The simpler a method, hack, trick or tip is, the more likely you are to reach for it, and the more useful it therefore becomes. Yes, there are plenty of clever (and sometimes wildly creative) ...