Do you have a home office? Whether you work from home or you have a spot where you take care of your bills and other paperwork, you can make this area easier to handle if it is organized.
Last weekend I spent most of it putting together a new organizational system in my home office. I first went out and purchased the following: label maker, large box of file folders, notebooks and a binder.
I first labeled all of my folders. I have a set labeled 1-31 (for the days of the month) and then another set labeled with the months (January through December).
Then I labeled yet another set of folders with things such as “Pet Records,” “Work Receipts,” etc. After my folders were labeled and placed in a basket, I began to go through all of my paperwork and organized most of it into those folders.
For instance, if a bill needed to be paid on the 13th, I placed it in my folder labeled “13.” If I needed to remember to put together my church’s newsletter in August, I put a note inside the folder labeled “August.”
Not only did I seriously diminish paper piles and other pieces of paper floating throughout my house, but I had everything in its appropriate folder. It felt so good to go through my purse, drawers, and other areas where I was keeping random pieces of paper with information on it.
Then I used my notebooks to keep track of things such as “To Do,” “To Purchase,” “Projects,” “Books to Read,” etc. Notebooks are great for lists.
The binder I used for items that need to be portable. For instance, I attend a quarterly meeting for a women’s group I belong to at my church. So the information for that is kept inside a binder I can just grab when I need to.
Does this inspire you to get your home office organized? Do you have additional tips to share?
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