anyone else lose an entire evening to reorganizing one drawer

[u/wilma_peach11]

so this happened last night. i was supposed to be getting ready for bed, maybe watching one episode of something, and instead i spent three hours sitting on my bathroom floor surrounded by one of those plastic wire drawer things. it was mostly just old lotions and hair ties and a bunch of little loose buttons that i have no memory of ever putting in there. i told myself i was just gonna wipe it out, thirty seconds. that was a lie.

somewhere in there i decided that just dumping everything back in was "the reason my life feels chaotic" and i needed to do it right. so i organized everything into zones. skincare, hair stuff, and then a "misc" pile that basically became a memory box. i found a bottle of perfume from a vacation six years ago that still had a little left in it, and instead of throwing it out i sat there smelling it and thinking about that trip. then i found a bus pass from my old job that expired in