How to Organize your home, office, school and more

Pencils, pens, paperclips, Oh My!

Whether your home office is a desk in a corner or you have an entire room dedicated to your home office, it is so much nicer (and more efficient) to work in an organized space.  Learn how to organize your home office by climbing the steps to organization.  If you have read any of our other pages on how to organize, you will already be familiar with the steps to organization (aka how to organize), if not, you can check out our homepage or just follow along with this example.  It really isn’t hard to learn how to organize, I know you can do it – let’s go.

How to Organize – Step 1 : Sorting

Decide what you want to keep in your office and what can go.  You need to have multiple boxes to help you with this process.  One box will be for trash, one will be for donate, and one will be for items you will keep in your office, one will be for items you will keep, but that don’t belong in your office.  After your sorting process, toss the trash, drop off the donate items and move the items that are staying out of your way for now.  Once you are done sorting, move on to Step 2 to continue learning how to organize your office.

Step 2 : Building the Border

Just like when you are making a puzzle, after sorting the pieces you build your border.   Our border is the basis for how to organize all of our office supplies.

Desk Top : 

How do you like your desk top organized?  Do you like to have pictures?  Do you like to keep just a keyboard and mouse?  Do you like your pens and pencils within reach?  There are various ways to organize your desktop.  Below you will find a few ideas to help you decide how to organize, use these as stepping stones to create your own look. 

Desktop Organizers – From organizing notes to pens, to papers and cd roms, here are some various ways how to organize your desktop with organizing systems -

 Files and Folders -

Of course the obvious answers for papers and files is a file cabinet.  Because there are many ways how to organize papers, there are many different styles of file cabinets.  There are Two-Drawer Metal Filing Cabinets, there are 4-Drawer Vertical File Cabinets. There are also Plastic Hanging File Totes which are nice because they are portable and fit nicely under a desk to be stored out of the way.

These are some suggestions to get you started in building your border.  Hopefully this will get you on the right track when learning how to organize.

Step 3 : Filling in the pieces

Remember those boxes you put aside earlier.  Now it is time to get them and start putting things away.  If you come across items that don’t seem to fit, feel free to readjust your border, be sure to take at look at these things to decide if the items are you keeping are really needed.

Step 4 : The Final Step – Keep It Organized

Keeping your office organized is not a magic trick.  Small consistent efforts make a big difference.  When learning how to organize the thing to keep in mind is to keep your organization system simple and it will be a lot easier to keep organized.