Clutter Video Tip: Getting the Most from Your Filing Cabinets

http://www.clutterdiet.com Get organized with home organizing tips from professional organizers at The Clutter Diet. In today's Clutter Video Tip we are talking about getting the most from your filing cabinet. Do you need a filing cabinet for your home office or work space? Why not purchase office equipment from used office furniture liquidators or your local Goodwill? Lorie Marrero discusses some strategies for purchasing used office equipment as well as how to make your filing cabinet work more efficiently. Organizing your filing cabinet will clean your desk, and reduce your work-time stress. These Clutter Video Tips are posted frequently here on our clutterdiet organizing channel. You can search Twitter for #ClutterVideoTip also to find comments on our organizing tips. Lorie Marrero is the creator of ClutterDiet.com and the author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life. Lorie also serves as the national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International and ambassador of the Donate Movement.

Hello, I'm Lorie Marrero and today's Clutter Video Tip [POP] is about getting the most out of your filing cabinet. Now, I rarely recommend that people buy a filing cabinet new because you can Google "used office furniture" for your town and you can often find an office furniture liquidator that will sell you really high quality bookcases and filing cabinets and things for a fraction of the cost of new. I got this filing cabinet at a place like that locally and I didn't get the keys that [POP] came with it, but that was okay with me. What was important to me instead was whether the drawers operated properly and didn't stick and that I could get my rails for the hanging folders that I [POP] like to use. So in here I have some letter-size folders. And when you do that, you've got extra space in a lateral filing cabinet that's just bonus storage, right alongside the letter-size folders. So here I've got a box of checks. I also have a big long box of extra business cards. And I can even fit my landscaping plans for my backyard right here perfectly next to the files.

Another thing you can do to get the most out of your filing cabinet is use what we call box-bottom folders. These are available at any office supply store [POP] and they come with a cardboard insert that fits into the bottom of the folder and allows bulky files full of paper to work a little bit more efficiently inside the drawer with the other folders.

So do you need help with your paper and your home office? We have an expert team available on-line to help anyone from anywhere. If you'd like to learn more you can visit us at clutterdiet.com/learnmore.

See you next time, and may you always feel happy and grateful for having more than enough.

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[drewsmom424]

Great idea on letter files in a legal drawer! I always have oversized items that need quick storage and retrieval!

[rebagv]

Awesome ideas. This was definitely worth watching.

[JillatCatalogchoice]

Great video on reducing the clutter of paper, Lorie. Thanks for the tips.

[CaublasianMom]

End of the year - perfect time to think about files and filing. Thanks, Lorie!