Friday morning found me up at 5:20 vacuuming and starting the tedious and mentally exhausting process of decluttering my office. I took a lot of magazines and paper to the recycling center, spent way too much time reading old term papers, and found an October 2005 Entrepreneur Magazine article about how decluttering your office reenergizes everything. I've cleaned up about 3/8ths of the office, as seen above. This is HARD. I'm not really throwing out everything that needs to be thrown out in all the file folders. I'll save that for deep-declutter later on. But I have only one box under the drafting table, as opposed to five before. I know that a lot of vendor information can be accessed on-line, and that should give me courage to recycle the binders and folders.
One thing that is hard is passing all clutter in the house on the way down to my office. Focusing on just one area when so many are crying out for attention is necessary, but again, for me, hard.
The good news is that the 3/8ths of my office fairly under control feel pretty inspiring.
Wonderful! You followed the suggestions I tried to send even without seeing them! Glad to see the tower off the desk work area. It's so looming.
ReplyDeleteI like see-through drawer-type stacking bins instead of boxes. They're uniform and cntents are visible--- one category per bin. I also like long shelves that go from the wall corner, just behind the desk to as far from the corner as you have space. I put the books used least, or never, clear at the corner, and the ones used most just above the desk, even reachable sitting down. My lowest shelf is 2 inches higher than the top of the monitor.
And now the truth... after such wonderful organizingh, my after repeatedly, and currently, looks like your before because I always have 2 or 3 projects going at a time and I leave them out so I can just step right back in and pick up from where I left off. Good luck to us both. Our middle sister has learned not to save stuff. She's so strong... and petite :-)
Gerry