How To Efficiently Organize Your Office Supplies

This year most people are working full-time and part-time from home offices.

The biggest challenge I help tackle is that often the house they live in does not have room for a full-scale office.

Many folks are stealing a part of their dining room or a corner of their bedroom (not recommended to bring work into the bedroom - by the way).

More often than not, I find clients using part of their guest room to conduct business. Most guest rooms cannot completely commit to business alone and still need to reserve space for the occasional guests to visit! 

One of my clients needed to use her guest closet for luggage, her off-season clothes, and of course, leave a little space for guest suitcases and clothes.

Because of the restricted space, I recommended that we implement a portable office supplies system in the form of a little cart on wheels. When the office was in action, the cart could be rolled out of the closet and positioned by the small desk. When guests arrived, it could be parked inside the recessed area to the right of the closet.

I used my favorite organizing categories and you might enjoy using them as well! They easily help to combine “like items with like”.

The 8 categories we used were:

Things that Stick – Tape, glues . . .

Things that Bind – Staples, paper clips, rubber bands . . .

Things the Write – Pens, pencils, markers . . .

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