Office Supply Epiphany

Ever feel like this in your office?  I did, until a few days ago.

Will finished fixing his model airplane, so I FINALLY unpacked my office.  Well, mostly, anyway.  Our dinosaur of a desktop isn't hooked up yet.  That's a testament to how much we really don't need it, I suppose. It's nice to have when Will leaves & takes the laptop for a few weeks, though.

Part of my procrastination was just plain indecision.  Where on earth did I plan to house my office supplies from when I was teaching?  I don't have anything comparable to the behemoth of a desk I had in my classroom (much like this one).
 

What I do have, however, is a shoe organizer.  I bought it to keep calculators (and cell phones of texting high school students) when I taught.  I need to relabel it, but it's perfect otherwise!

This one cost all of about $10 or so at Walmart.  Just goes to show that organizing does not need to be difficult or expensive!  I don't particularly love the look of this, but I LOVE the function.  (Who really looks at the back of a home office door, anyway?)

Features I love about this:

• Clear pockets make it easy to find what I'm looking for
• The large pockets at the bottom are perfect for paper supplies
• The small pockets are just the right size to fit pens, pencils, a bag of rubberbands, etc.
• My supplies are easy to find and don't take up space on my desk or in my closet.

Want to know how I arranged the items?  Read on!
Have another great way to organize office supplies?  Please comment.
 The pocket categories are not labeled in this picture, so I listed them below (the numbers in the pic are leftover from when this housed a set of calculators):

• labels :)
• sticky-notes
• small legal pads
• note cards
• permanent markers, photo markers
• pencils & erasers, extra lead
• pens
• highlighters & white-out pens
• colored pencils
• dry-erase markers & magnets
• calculators
• 3-ring punch & binding rings (aviators use these often for their flight publications in the jet)
• binder clips, butterfly clips
• paperclips
• tape
• rubber bands
• small tools (envelope opener, staple remover, etc.)
• scissors, ruler
• cigar cutter, lighter (NOT from my classroom, but Will likes to keep these in the office for some reason)
• stapler, staples
• construction paper
• paper plates & other small notebooks