Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Tackle-It Tuesday: Desk (again)

Tackle It Tuesday Meme


So my desk had gotten out of control again. I had accumulated a couple of piles that were making it very difficult to do anything besides push papers aside and it was driving me insane. I decided that a couple of things had happened:

1. I had no where to really put things and so they ended up in a pile. A big old unorganized pile.
2. Because there were nothing but piles everywhere, when I had something to do or file it ended up in the same pile as everything else. There was no system to my desk, and that was starting to get annoying.

I couldn't find anything, I could do any work - enough was enough. I had already overhauled the desk once, and because I'm the kind of person who needs a system to function I thought I'd better set one up. We set a budget of $25 for supplies, and I went off to Wal*Mart to get some stuff to set up a system. What we have is the DDS: The Danielle Desk System. Everything has a place and everything in its place. I even got myself some trays for a "To Do" and a "To File" area (they're not labeled yet, but they will be).

Because I'm an idiot, I forgot to take a "Before" picture, so just picture the below after as a big old mess with a bunch of paper all over the desk except for about a 6" square in front of the keyboard. That's what it looked like before. The drawers (black ones) are also a new addition and are housing crochet patterns, menus, and big coupons (which means that there's also more white space on our fridge where the latter two things were being housed on clips before).

So, here is my desk tackled:



Who knows what next week will be, but there's still lots to be tackled at Casa Athanas. Stay tuned...

6 comments:

Nikki Neurotic said...

Hopefully the system works well for you.

Lanny, Nathalie, Théo, Emma, and Marie said...

Waoo! Could you come to our house? I need help these days, not mentioning the out-of-control laundry pile, but that's Emma's work. :)

kat said...

Well done! What else can I say? Please come over to my house and organize my messy desk :)

Kimberly Pye said...

Super hot! Nice job!

kSm said...

Very nice... Nice flat screen too!

Lainey-Paney said...

good job!

I don't really do the "tackle it Tuesday" thing, but I was pretty productive yesterday too!
:)