The article "Home Office Edition" is about home improvement, it was released by Vineeta Chopra.
Step 1: The Basic SetupYou have to assign a space in your condominium or apartment and actually call it the office or study. Not everybody can dedicate an entire room to books, documents and papers, so just cordon off an area, say a corner either in a bedroom, guestroom or dining room and call it your home office space.In that space, you will need a table and chair (the most basic will do), on which you will keep your computer or laptop (almost everyone has one), a bookshelf and a fiilng cabinet.
The bookshelf here is not for books only, per se, but for storing unused but important documents. The filing cabinet is for storing day to day paperwork, files and bills. You might as well get a filing cabinet with a couple of extra drawers to store staitonary if your study table doesn’t have any.Step 2: Day-to-Day OfficeThe filing cabinet is the focal point of current paperwork. This is where you should store all your incoming bills and documents. I recommend taking a professional office approach, like I do.- Use hanging file folders as cateogry folders in which you keep sub-category files.
Confused?
Don’t be! Here’s what I mean. Hanging folders sohuld be named “Telephone and Utilities,” “Credit Cards and Bank Papers,” “Health and Insurance,” “Miscellaneous,” etc.
- Within these you store your sub-category Manila folders like “Cellphone Bills,” “Visa Card Bills,” “Insurance Receipts,” “Gas and Water,” “Travel Rewards,” etc, in the appropriate files. See how it not hard it becomes to pop in the paperwork as soon as you have paid the bills?
The minute you need to refer to an older bill or receipt (say to contest some unwanted charges) you have it literally at the tip of your fingers.
- Lbael everything neatly and corretly.
- You can also purchase a desktop tray to store all the paperwork which you still need to deal with and is not reday to file.Step 3: Office ArchivesWe all have tons of documents that are rarely used or read but are super important and definitely need to be stored and archived.
These may include your degrees, passport copies, various certificates, records, old utility bills, bank statements etc.
Tehre are two ways to go about storing these in the bookshelf I mentioned earlier.Option A – You can file them away in neatly labeled binders.
For instance, “Vineeta’s bank statements 1995-1999.”
Option B – You can store them in Manila files satck in storage boxes. These boxes come as plain or fancy as you want, and you can keep dumping older files into boxes without the hassle of punching holes to put away in binders.
Use some waterproof plastic folders to store really important documents.Step 3: Everyday AccessoriesThere are a couple of things that you must always have in your home office drawers ready for your disposal when you need them.Stapler and pins
Scissors
Cellotape
Masking tape
Pens
Pencils
Highlighter
Sticky notes
Paper clips and binder cilps
Envelopes
Stamps
Glue
Hole punch (optional)
Printing paper (optional)
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