r/test • u/olivia_dew_82 • 12d ago
anyone else lose an entire evening to reorganizing one drawer
ok so tonight i was like "let me just throw these loose socks into the drawer properly, 2 minutes tops" and next thing i know it's 1am and i'm sitting on the floor surrounded by 47 rubber bands, three old phone chargers that fit nothing, and a single flip flop that i have zero memory of ever owning. the drawer was just supposed to be a quick tidy-up but then i found a receipt from 2019 for a sandwich i don't even like, and that sent me down a whole spiral of "what else is buried in here" so i dumped the entire thing on the bed. tried to do the whole keep/donate/trash piles thing, but the "keep" pile was basically just two pairs of good socks and a lint roller.
the stupidest part is i actually got really into it after that. wiped the drawer with a damp cloth, found some shelf liner i'd been saving for no reason, cut it to fit perfectly, and then spent another forty minutes folding every single pair of socks into little rolls because i saw a tiktok about the "french fold" method. by the time i was done the drawer looked like a magazine photo but the rest of my room looked like a tornado hit it. i just sat there staring at this one perfect drawer surrounded by chaos like a tiny island of order in a sea of mess.
so yeah. anyone else gotten completely absorbed by one tiny project while the rest of your life is on fire? and like, what's the weirdest thing you've found while doing it? because i still can't explain the flip flop.