How To Organize Home Office Supplies
Our home office is a family office. We each have our separate areas within the same room. Merging households as we did, that meant we pretty much had two of everything.
About a year ago, sick of having to move my husband’s tape, stapler, hole punch, pens and what not every time I wanted to use the dictionary, I decided to organize the office. I patterned it after my workplace.
The Supply Cabinet
At work, we have a supply room. It contains extra notes, pens, binders, paper; everything we need on a daily basis. When we use up what we have, we can go get more, but we are not supposed to stockpile at our desks.
At home, I consolidated all the supplies of this nature: sticky notes, staples, pencil lead, paper clips, paper, notebooks and rubber bands and put them in containers, plainly labeled. These sit in the office closet, easily accessible. The things at our desks are used, and if we run out, we know where to look.
Shared Supplies
Certain things at work are shared: our paper cutter, stapler and printer are all clustered together in one place. We use these items in the shared area, and everyone is responsible for their upkeep.
At home, I cleared out the bookshelf that sits between our desks. On the top shelf is the shared supplies: tape, stapler, hole punch and paper cutter. Next to it is the printer which is hooked up to the network, not directly to either of our computers. This cut down on a lot of wasted space: at one point we each had a printer, tape dispenser and stapler on or near our desks.
For the most part, this plan has worked smoothly. We know where to get our items, and we both have more room on our desks to work.
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