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Thrifty Craft: What Can You Do With Your Junk Drawer?

Collecting plastic bottles and jars for a "future project" is all well and good, but how can you turn trash into treasure in time for the holidays? Leave your ideas in the comments.

For some A-types, the site of a junk drawer will incite fear, terror and anger. But for more creative souls, a junk draw is a window of opportunity: it represents all that has not yet been crafted out of old magazines, empty jars and whatever else happens to have been shoved in there.

How can you turn a junk drawer into a treasure trove in time for the holidays? Leave your crafty ideas for gifts and decorations in the comments.


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