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20 Home Office Organizing Tricks 2 1 Lisa Johans shares her tricks to organize anything from Binders to Bulletins and everything in between
If you tend to make piles of papers, use PileSmart binder clips (right)-equipped with erasable labels-to fasten papers together by category and quickly find what you need. To buy: $4 for a pack of 6, amazon.com.
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The top of the myKeyO keyboard lifts up to reveal storage for desk doodads, like pushpins. To buy: $30, keyboardorganizer.com.
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Conceal excess wires by coiling them inside the cute and discreet rubberized Cable Turtle. To buy: $7 to $14, containerstore.com.
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Repurpose ice-cube trays as desk-drawer organizers.
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Arrange desk essentials, like a stapler, Post-it Notes, and scissors, on a vintage tray and they’ll look orderly and a lot prettier.
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Mount the Wrap ‘n Bag Organizer on a cabinet door to hold aluminum foil and plastic wrap. To buy: $9, containerstore.com.
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Screw the Mini Magnetic Strip Bulletin Board by Three by Three into your wall and post reminders in style. To buy: $6 each, velocityartanddesign.com.
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Rolodexes aren’t just for business contacts. Use them for recipes, website log-ons, and passwords.
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An adjustable desk organizer lets you sort mail by category (bills to pay, bills to file).
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Stuff plastic grocery bags inside an empty tissue box for compact storage and easy retrieval.
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Magnetic Erasable Labels attach easily to metal shelving, boxes, and bins. To buy: $11 for five, containerstore.com.
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Organize bills in an accordion file with 12 pockets and designate one pocket for every month.
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Create a hierarchy system for e-mail folders by using an A in front of each label for most-used folders and a Z for those used least.
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Use adhesive Velcro strips to secure surge protectors and dangling cords to the underside of a desk.
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The faux-leather 2-Pod Charging Station holds two gadgets, has a slot for mail, and takes up little space on a desktop. To buy: $20, kangaroomstorage.com.
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Put “expiration dates” on labels for files that store credit-card and bank statements so you’ll know when to shred them (after one year).
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The next time you get unsolicited address labels in the mail, save them for filling out forms.
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The Life.doc binder keeps critical info, such as legal and health-care documents, in one place. To buy: $30, getbuttonedup.com.
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Designate one day of each year to buy birthday cards for friends and family so you’ll never have to do a last-minute drugstore run. Stash files in the pretty patterned Scandinavian Modern file tote with handles for easy access. To buy: For similar styles, go to galison.com.
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A Story Lately Told by Angelica Huston Reviewed by Melissa Maerz Anjelica Huston played a Royal Tenenbaum on screen, and she was one in real life, too. Like Wes Anderson's film, her story is filled with quirky, precocious siblings and inappropriate parent-child relationships, all of which makes for a fascinating memoir. A Story Lately Told, the first volume in the Oscar-winning actress' memoir, follows her from birth to age 22 as she grows up in castles and on lavish estates in Ireland, England, and New York, riding horses competitively while her brother practices falconry. Her father, the director John Huston, spent those early years partying with Marlon Brando, hanging out naked in front of the kids (''He was extremely well endowed,'' Anjelica brags), and collecting wives. Anjelica's ballet-dancer mother, Ricki Soma, was his fourth, after Gone With the Wind star Evelyn Keyes, who forced him to choose between her and the pet monkey that soiled her fancy underwear. (He chose the monkey.) The wildest stories in the book focus on the father, not the daughter — there's one where a Mexican general draws a .45 on him, and Huston responds by sticking his finger in the barrel. Anjelica's more self-indulgent memories feel tame in comparison: She earns her first laughs from her parents by covering her bare bum in powder and declaring, ''I'm Japanese!'' Still, her lovely, novelistic writing carries the book, whether she's sharing a teenage kiss ''between marshmallows'' by the bonfire, auditioning for modeling gigs with a girl who's ''like a wet kitten'' in a fur coat, or flying in a 12-seat plane with the Monkees. As a storyteller, she's having more fun than a monkey in a lingerie drawer. And if she hasn't mentioned her famous exes yet (Jack Nicholson!), that just means there are more juicy tales to come. A-
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As a storyteller, she’s having more fun than a monkey in a lingerie drawer.
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