Add a little flair to your home-office organization with these ideas from Better Homes and Gardens’ January issue:
Place a vintage muffin tin or a deeper popover pan in your desk’s top drawer to contain small supplies. Use self-adhesive hook-and-loop fastener dots to mount mismatched forks on the wall, tine end down. The forks can serve as clips to hold business cards and reminders. Raid the china cabinet for containers. Teacups, small bowls, mugs and tumblers can hold small supplies such as pens and paper clips. Positioning them on a picture ledge mounted on the wall keeps them within reach without cluttering the desk top. Use a napkin ring to corral coupons. Hang old drawer pulls on the wall to hold reading glasses, keys and other small items. Hang curtain clip rings from the handles to hold small papers. Photo by GIORealtor.
Nagita on January 27th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
People usually have standard things they need to keep handy that may or may not be needed someday.
eg. Warranty cards,
manuals for appliances,
keys to the storage locker,
combinations to bike locks,
etc. etc.
What is needed is some type of container for this stuff (with placed specifically designated for everything) that can be locked and put in the basement, office etc and so we can *keep our desks clear*
Most often these items are placed in the desk drawer and get lost among the clutter. Or they are placed in different areas of the house and we have to keep track of where they are.
Dane on January 28th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Wow, I was on your site today, not for the first time. But it was the first time that I noticed that we share a pretty uncommon first name.
Anyway, I have a filing system for the types of files Nagita mentions that works really well. See my post at http://caveblogem.wordpress.com/2007/01/19/a-folksonomy-for-physical-paper-files/. It show a very simple method for archiving files and storing them somewhere you won’t trip over them.