Hi! I have a very organized home and office.Here is a way to keep all of those little office supplies organized. Like paper clips, staples, rubberbands, erasers all of those tiny items. You can use a spice rack. Fill the small spice bottles with tiny office supplies. If you want a green way to incorporate this idea you can reuse clean clear glass baby food jars for the office supplies. I have a sleek black mini shelf that I use with matching clear spice bottles with plastic lids in yellow, blue and green. Because the bottles are clear you don't have to label them if you don't want to. This idea can also be used in a nursery to organize tiny baby items, or in the garage for screws, nuts, bolts,nails and small emergency batteries. I am also a crafty person so I know that this idea works great for small sewing supplies, beads to make jewelry and stuff. Even men that like to fish and have a lot of small tackle equipment can use this tip. I also use a lot of those plastic baskets that you can buy at the Dollar Tree to keep things organized. I use one under my glass living room end table to hold all of my magazines. But it is also the perfect size to use for mail or important papers and unlike cardboard boxes they can be cleaned if they get dusty, they are reusable and they don't attract bugs. I use a magnetic shopping list with tear off sheets and a mini calendar. I have a small box on my desk with post it size papers for quick messages and I use an ordinary plastic school box for lose message papers. I use another school box to keep disc in or flash drives. These flat plastic school boxes only cost a dollar and they fit nicely into my desk drawer. a small vase is on my desk for pens and pencils. Being an artist I have lots of pencils and pens so aside from the small amount of them that I have at my desk I have one of those small travel bags filled with them that I keep in the hallway closet with the rest of my art supplies. Glass candle jars with rubber air tight seals inside of the lids are wonderful to use as canisters for larger items for the kitchen, or bathroom. For my files I reuse wooden wine crates. They are extremely sturdy and durable and each one can hold a large amount of files. If you are really limited on space you can put all of your files in a stacked manner in the crates and then they can be stacked. I store the files that I am not using in the closet. Everything says really neat that way. Because I wanted to have more space I have turned a corner in my bedroom into a complete and fully organized home office. If I can do that anyone can. I got my wine crates for free from my local whole sale club. They get them all the time when they get wine shipments so they didn't mind giving them to me. You can also reuse clean glass jars from spaghetti sauce, apple sauce and the like to store things in. You can make them cute by covering the lids and labeling them
Welcome to the board art4sol, thanks for adding your suggestions for office organization - some great "green" ideas in there too :-) you sound as if you are well organized and a great source of information - thanks!
