Top Ten Tips to Organize Your Home Office, II

Continuing where we left off yesterday, here are five more organization tips for the home office: 5. Arrange separate trays for items that need to remain on your desk, such as papers you need to reference while working on a project. Create an inbox/outbox system, and use storage units in different styles or colors to keep different types of items organized. If you don’t want too many different colors, choose uniform containers but add colored labels. Vendors’ catalogs and the like may be stored in magazine file boxes, while owner’s manuals for office equipment might be stored in a small … Continue reading

Top Ten Tips to Organize Your Home Office, I

Even if you don’t have a complete home office, these tips will help you keep your desk and work area more organized. 10. Separate personal items from work items. Select separate drawers in your desk or use separate storage units for household bills, important papers, bank statements, etc. It also makes sense to use different colored checks and checkbook covers for home and business so you can tell them apart at a glance. 9. Speaking of bills and papers, sort your mail immediately instead of piling it on your desk. In fact, if you sort it over the trashcan, instead … Continue reading