Organize my home office

ugh! It is a hell of a lot better than it was, but it’s still the black hole for things I don’t know what else to do with. Plus it’s also become a guest room which has just made it even more of a nightmare for me!

So I have a new plan – I’m taking the guest bed out of there and just getting an aerobed for when people come to visit. Then I am getting rid of my husband’s desk, rearranging all of the bookshelves in there and throwing out/giving away/selling absolutely everything in there that we have not even looked at since we bought the house. I will get this done! (but probably not till the hubby comes home in Nov!)

I’m starting with my desk – we have two desks in the office, but I can’t even get to my husband’s desk. My desk has the desktop computer on it so it gets used more, but you can’t even see the surface of it! Yesterday I started just cleaning it off, getting all of the crap off of it that doesn’t beling there. Next, I have to set up the filing system to keep crap from piling up on the desk and I have to get some organizers so I can stock it with supplies.

We have a room in our house that we call the “office” and it has our desks and bookshelves and our dektop computer in it, but it is such a wreck that it cannot be properly used as an office. Our house does not have a lot of storage options so the “office” has become the dumping ground for anything we don’t know what to do with. I would really prefer that it take up it’s original job and be used as a place to file important papers and work on the computer. My DH is taking grad classes and I’m trying to write, but we are stuck attempting to get work done in the living room and dining room because we can barely get into the “office.”

This task seems so overwhelming, though. The room is really a wreck. Some days I just want to throw everything out that is in there and start from scratch. There are still boxes of stuff from when we moved into the house in there – and there’s so much stuff that we haven’t touched for years, obviously we don’t need it but every time I try to organize in there I never seem to be able to make any progress.

I need a plan.