How To: Desk Organization

Over the course of the school year, my desk tends to get loaded up with old papers and tidbits that don't have anywhere else to go. As I have more time on my hands, I am going to re-paint several rooms and the house and organize everything. I've decided to start with my room, and obviously, reorganize my desk. 

Here is the before shot:

Clearly, this desk needs some help. There is an insane amount of paper from the school year collected and just a general disarray of everything.

Here is the after:

The best part of this is I know have more space to use, just by moving some things around. The desk top is also clear now.

This is one side of my desk. I have all my DVDs, three books, and a german/english dictionary lined up. I also have pens and pencils in a glass. Underneath the Rubik's cube are SAT vocab cards. In the green holder, I have german vocab cards. My planner is by Sarah Pinto, and I generally leave it out whenever I'm home so I can keep on track.

On the other side of my desk, I keep magazines that I want to read. The small book is Nancy Drew's Guide to Life. I generally use it to prop up my laptop so it won't overheat. 

Now, we'll look at each drawer individually. The first is the flat drawer:

The firs thing to do is to invest in a large amount of file folders. I have mine labeled with things like: taxes, job/college, health, 2002 Lincoln LS, etc. 

Other than having things in folders, I keep the papers I need to get done immediately on top of the folders. I also keep things like post-its in this drawer. 

The first drawer is more of a random drawer. I keep hand sanitizer (stocked up at the Bath and Bodywork's Semi-annual sale), paper clips, chargers, and other random things in there. I find that wrapping chargers in circles is the easier way to keep them from getting tangled.

This is the second drawer. I keep art supplies and things like that in there. I just stack by size and keep things in bags. Underneath the calculator is a pink bag filled with sharpers. I also keep lead, tape, and things like that are always handy to have within close reach when working on homework and projects.

My final drawer has magazines (Seventeen, Teen Vogue, the occasional Cosmo) and my bank information. I keep savings information in one box and checking in the other box.

Since I have no where else to store these, I keep them under my bed. On the right, I have my psych book and my dictionary. The left contains all my study books. (I'm thinking about selling some of them, so let me know if you are interested in any of them.)

That's all for today! Tomorrow or the next day will contain a post about my first time making blondies....see you guys soon.