How to Deal With Clutter in Your Home

How do you handle individual items that don't fit in the designated and well established container because of an awkward size? Just a few examples, that cool pen or pencil that's just too long for the spot you keep writing utensils in. You can come up with a different place for this to go that would fit these items. But more likely, because you said that these are designate and well established containers, accepting the realities of those containers is what you have to do rigt.