How to Keep Your Drawer Organizers From Sliding Around Your Nice, Organized Drawers
I love organizing. LOVE IT. It soothes me, it helps me feel in control, and I never lose anything. My top trick is to have a place for everything, and to use drawer organizers in every drawer you have. There are little bins and boxes of all sorts in my drawers, from the kitchen to the bedroom to the living room. The only downside to this method is that all your little organization containers will slide around when you open and close the drawer. My method for combating this - up until now - was Command Strips. Just get a big ol’ pack of Command Picture Hanging Strips and velcro your bins and boxes to each other and the drawer. This is a pretty good system, but it has its flaws. For one, The organizers in my silverware drawer can’t have the strips on the bottom, so they’re on the sides. This means the organizers don’t line up perfectly, and if you look juuuust right, you can see the Command Strips between them.
It’s not a big deal, particularly in my kitchen drawers, but I recently got a new console table for my entryway and I wanted to use clear acrylic bins to organize the drawers. Having big white velcro rectangles stuck all over was aesthetically unacceptable to me, so I needed a better solution. Enter Museum Gel.
This clear gel is marketed as a way to keep your fragile crystal (or whatever is in your fancy house, I don’t know) stuck in place, but it’s also great for making sure your drawer organizers stay put.
It’s crystal clear in the jar, and once you scoop it out it gets sort of mottled and doesn’t look as perfect, but somehow, through museum witchcraft, it goes back to looking like a glass of water after some time. If you are the type of person who wants to secure their drawer organizers, you are also a person who would get upset at ruining the perfect crystal clear jar of Museum Gel, so I want to assure you that it goes back to looking perfect after you use it.
DON’T PANIC.
Just take a little scoop out, roll it into a ball or smooth it out or whatever you like, stick it on the bottom of your drawer bin (or whatever!) and then press it down onto the surface you don’t want it moving from. If you’re using clear acrylic bins, you will be able to see the Museum Gel, but it’s pretty minimal. If this is a huge issue, you could also put it on the sides where I imagine it would be less noticeable. For me, it’s fine on the bottom. Here’s how it looks in one of my drawers (it’s subtle enough that it was hard to get my camera to focus on the gel and not the stuff in the drawer).
In the future, I may replace all my Command Stripped drawers to Museum Gel, but for now I’m good with just moving forward with my new, far superior method of organizing my organizers.
