Organized moms. My new year's resolution is to organize my damn home office. It's very small (more like a closet) with shelves along one wall, desk with laptop and printer. Otehr...
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items in office: electronics (chargers, old phones, camcorder that we don't use, things I can't ID, etc.); paper (old financial statements, old bills that are paid, all those "keep for your records" things, mags, some books; toys that we take away from dcs, stick on upper shelves and forget about; greeting cards, manuals, office supplies that are not organized; stacks of papers on desk; CDs for computers, mailing supplies, etc. How the hell do I tackle this? I have been avoiding it b/c I am overwhelmed. I have lots of magazine holders and some other cardboard storage boxes, but I still am not sure where to begin.
posted January 7th, 2012 at 6:27pm in
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- Most of it should just be thrown away, shredded, scanned or donated. Why keep the camcorder? Old bills? 1-7-2012 6:28pm
- ^my entire "office" is a wooden 2 drawer filing cabinet from ballard designs. It has all papers we need to keep, thank you notes/greeting cards, office supplies etc in it. 1-7-2012 6:29pm
- so you scan papers that you need to keep? 1-7-2012 6:30pm
- where do you keep your digital cameras, chargers, etc. 1-7-2012 6:31pm
- in the credenza that the tv is on. No I don't scan papers because everything is online that I don't keep. I've never kept old bills (except water bills becasue they sometimeds...(more) 1-7-2012 6:32pm
make errors) and it's never been an issue in over 10 years.
- what abouty tax returns? 1-7-2012 6:36pm
- the last 4 years are in that filing cabinet and the previous 6 or years are in a magazine holder in a high shelf in my closet. 1-7-2012 6:38pm
- ^^I thought of one other paper system we have--manuals and receipts are put into ziplock bags (all the computer ones together, all the tv/dvd player ones together) in a bin on a...(more) 1-7-2012 6:40pm
shelf above the washing machine.
- you could have done it in the time it took to type all that 1-7-2012 6:28pm
- LOL. No. This will take me hours. I just can't throw stuff out I also need to figure out where everything will go and I will organize the shelves to accommodate the stuff that I...(more) 1-7-2012 6:30pm
- bird by bird. take breaks when you need to. 1-7-2012 6:31pm
- buy a book. meantime, go through and toss what you know you don't need. magazines. old phones, etc. sort the rest, like with like. then figure out what you need to store it in. 1-7-2012 6:29pm
- pull out the old, broken electronics. recycle them at a best buy. then just START somewhere. get a shredder. i'm doing the same this year 1-7-2012 6:30pm
- agree. i have decided to start small this year and have already cleaned out and organized the junk drawer, the vanity, the linen closet. 1-7-2012 6:30pm
- and it feels good! in fact, im getting off ybm now to do some more 1-7-2012 6:31pm
- You're still here, aren't you? np 1-7-2012 6:37pm
- damn you, i am!!! but i'm also looking at other things. you know me too well 1-7-2012 6:42pm
- just do it shelf by shelf, box by box. be ruthless. 1-7-2012 6:30pm
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