Home Business Planning & Organization

Trimming Paper Clutter
If your home office is a wreck, follow these easy-to-read tips that should help you cut down on paper clutter. Site explains filing categories you can use for bills, receipts, copies, errands, and calls. Includes information about how to decide which papers need to be thrown out. If your mailbox is filled with catalogs that you don't order from—or don't want to be tempted to order from in the future—you can request that they not be mailed to you. Write to the address below and ask them to take your name off their direct mail list. You'll prevent clutter from the catalogs themselves, as well as from all the things that you don't buy because you never knew you needed them.

Dos and Don'ts of Workplace Design
Tips for home office design include choosing comfortable furniture, arranging your desk in an L-shape, using adequate storage space, choosing home office lighting, grouping equipment to centers of operation (includes faxes, phones, computers), planning with portability in mind, setting up your office where you want it, personalizing your home office, creating a home office on a budget, and planning for home office growth.

Workspace Design
Site includes information for workplace decorating. Includes tips such as choosing a theme for your workplace, choosing a wall calendar, finding a mouse pad to go with the theme, purchasing decorative stationery, decorating with family photos, choosing a screensaver. Start with the walls that surround your home office. A couple of nice inspiring posters are all you need. If you're looking to save a little money, try shopping online. Don't forget to add your flowers and candles or your cherished pictures. Make it a comfortable and appealing space as well as a space for work. That will improve dramatically the quality of your work, and all of a sudden you'll feel great about yourself! Remember, home office decorating doesn't have to be expensive. Just follow your taste.

Home Office Checklist
If you are ready to set up a home office, there are a ton of questions and answers that you should have available. This site offers a list of specific questions you'll need to assess your home office needs. Includes topics of home office telephone outlets, home office electronics, home office layout, themes, organizing your home office workspace, home office decorating, home office furniture, home office computers, home office lighting, and other home office set up tips.

Time and Money Management
Website features office time and money management section with links to articles on daily planners, learning about palm pilots, budgeting time, money management, home office help and frugal finds. Section on home office help includes information for desk organizing. Tips include addressing problems in time blocks, using organizational aids, clearing space, evaluating desk items, sorting through desk papers, and using a friend to help you organize your home office desk efficiently.