{"id":16581,"date":"2017-05-20T17:40:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T22:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16581"},"modified":"2017-05-20T17:40:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T22:40:02","slug":"a-home-office-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/20\/a-home-office-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"A Home Office Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s a twee listicle, but I&#8217;m treating this bit like a quiz.  <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/501008\/14-things-professional-organizer-says-you-must-have-your-home-office\" target=\"_new\">14 Things a Professional Organizer Says You Must Have in Your Home Office<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Desk.<\/strong>  Hah!  I have two of them.  A huge, overpriced monstrosity I bought ten years ago when I first went into business, and a smaller student desk that I bought <em>twenty<\/em> years ago when I thought I&#8217;d get into wood refinishing.  As a matter of fact, I took off the handles and trim so I could jump on it right away, and I&#8217;ve left them off for these twenty (I exaggerate: 18, tops, since I bought it right after I got married and stuffed it into my hatchback at the time to bring it home).<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Desk chair.<\/strong>  Also, I have two, as the movers broke the cylinder on one when we moved from Old Trees to Nogglestead almost eight years ago.  A couple of years later, I figured out you could order new cylinders off of Amazon, so I repaired it.  It gives my beautiful wife somewhere to sit when she stops in when I&#8217;m working, and a place for a cat to nap other times.  The other place the other cat wants to nap: The newer office chair where I&#8217;m supposed to be sitting.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paper trays.<\/strong>  I have both a horizontal tray as depicted and a file folder organizer beside it.  Although the things that go onto the paper tray tend to stay there for years.  Case in point: These forms to change beneficiaries on my life insurance that I&#8217;ve been meaning to fill out for several years now.  After all, my mother died eight years ago, and she&#8217;s an alternate.\n<p>Come to think of it, I have a second set of paper trays in my office hutch.  I wonder what I have in there?<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>File cabinet.<\/strong> Again, I have two: One for personal things, and one for the business.  I even pull files out of the personal files to store elsewhere every couple of years.  Strangely, though, not my mother&#8217;s papers, which are still in the personal file cabinet, and a half drawer of note pads I inherited from my aunt and my mother.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hanging file folders.<\/strong>  Both file cabinets support hanging folders, although after several years they don&#8217;t hang as well.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paper shredder.<\/strong>  When I said <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/14\/7147\/\" target=\"_new\">I ate important documents<\/a>, I was only kidding!  The aforementioned shredder, though, is in my office.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Recycle bin.  To be honest, I cannot claim this in good conscience as I remove my recycling as soon as it is ready for recycling.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Supply organizer.<\/strong>  I have a pen holder with pens, pencils, a screwdriver, and scissors; I have a little tray with paperclips and rubber bands; and I have two cubbies in reach with tape, address labels, stamps, batteries, and whatnot.  So I&#8217;ll claim this even if I haven&#8217;t spent money on a professional-grade supply caddy.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Computer.<\/strong>  Yes, a few, as you might expect.  I <em>work<\/em> with computers.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Backup hard drive.<\/strong>  Yes, although I haven&#8217;t hooked it up since it was prone to prevent my PC from booting.  I think that was a PC ago.  Perhaps I should hook it back up.  I also back up to a laptop I have here, so I can just go with relatively recent data in case of emergency without having to wait for a restore.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Extra set of cables.<\/strong>  The laptop bag has the cables I need; the closet has a couple extra.  And the store room, even after a couple rounds of winnowing, has backups to most things.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wireless printer.<\/strong>  This is particularly silly.  I have one, but it&#8217;s hooked up by cable anyway.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Notebook or notepad.<\/strong>  A couple grab-and-go, a couple note pads, and a couple dedicated notebooks.  Check.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Supplies.<\/strong>  Oh, so many, and for so many things I thought I might want to do in decades past.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Missing from this list: Tidiness and organization.<\/p>\n<p>But if I had all that, I wouldn&#8217;t have fodder for a category called <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/category\/five-things-on-my-desk\/\" target=\"_new\">Five Things On My Desk<\/a>.  Which I should revisit sometime after I clear the last five things I mentioned off of my desk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s a twee listicle, but I&#8217;m treating this bit like a quiz. 14 Things a Professional Organizer Says You Must Have in Your Home Office: Desk. Hah! I have two of them. 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