Home repair tolerations, day 2: kitchen drawer

I'm in a deal-with-it-now kind of mood. Don't know where this energy came from, except all I can say is two weeks surfing in Costa Rica does amazing things for your psyche! But I'm trying to handle tolerations as they come up―cross them off the list before they become roadblocks to progress in my life.

Last week I noticed my pots and pans in one particular cabinet had a lot of saw dust in them. Hmmm, I thought. Do I have little munchy insects eating my kitchen away? Oh dear, I don't want to know.

Then the other night I realized that there was an awful lot of room in the kitchen drawer. Upon investigation I discovered that the entire back of the drawer was swinging freely and the bottom was about to plummet onto my lovely set of Wilton cake baking pans.

This can no longer be ignored, I thought. Time for a fix!

Mine are cheezy pressboard cabinets from who knows when, but I didn't have the means for a whole replacement. So I pulled out the drawer, got out the finish nails and wood glue and set to work.

It was hard nailing the corners back together, because there had clearly been similar repairs before and the fragile pressboard was chipping away. But I got in some glue and tapped in a few nails, making sure not to glue the bottom into the groove so it had room to move. Fifteen minutes later, and the drawer lives to see another day.

What's next to be fixed in my place? I'm sure I'll find out soon enough―and so will you. In the meantime, what tolerations are you crossing off your list?