How to organise desk/clutter of home office? Its a TIP!

[Pannacotta]

I work from home (not at the mo though, DS2 only 6 weeks) and need my "office" to look decent and smart.
However, I am very messy by nature and cannot keep my desk even remotely tidy.
How can I organise all the clutter which builds up? (sellotape, pens, stapler, bus cards, notepads, bits of paper etc, etc?
Can anyone help me instill order into the mad chaos?!
TIA!

Please HELP ME!!!
I cant even see my desk under all the detritus.....

clear plastic boxes

keep pens etc. you're not using in a drawer

get those upright plastic box things for storing paper/pamphlets (trad in-trays a killer cos you just stick stuff on top of them)

clear desk at end of every day

Mmmm - storage porn. Also The Holding Company.

love the internet porn site Jakcieno...

Clearing desk at the end of the day, great idea but never seem to manage it, bit like having a tidy kitchen

(see - I don't just do Lakeland)

I too love Lakeland but sadly it still doesn't mean I am in the least bit organised or domestic goddess like.....

Much like me. It's much more fun to read about cleaning products than to actually do any cleaning, isn't it?

I'm in heaven at JackieNo's Links...

I reccomend Ikea wooden magazine files and their wooden desk tidy thingy

JN I keep ordering lots of storage but never quite get round to sorting out all our clutter!
I even ordered the Anthea Turner book in an effort to improve my messy nature, so will see how that goes.... (I live in hope!)
I love the IKEA wooden filing things but cant get there, the nearest branch is far, far away and there is no on-line ordering here at the mo...

Have you ever investigated Flylady? Her thing of setting a timer for 15 minutes and just having a bash at tidying one area up a couple of times a day might work for you. If you're anything like me, you think 'it's such a huge job - I haven't got time to sort it all out' so you never do anything at all, and it just keeps getting worse and worse. I can see how doing the 15 minutes a couple of times a day would help. (And yet I'm not doing it...)

I did look at it and found it all a bit much...
When DS is no longer feeding every hour on the hour will check it out again, talking of which I can hear hunger cires as I type!!

LakelAND do little boxes that clip together like cutlery thing.I have one and it is fabulous.

In and out tray (got a big second hand one from junk store)

Pinboards

Built in shelving

Filing cabinet

Utensilo on wall. (My indulgence.Will link...)

Utensilo

Like the Untensilo but no wall space in the room.
What are the Lakeland boxes? Are they in the current range? They sound useful...

I think so..were in last catalogue.
Cutlery holder would also do the trick.
(Didn't we discuss Anthea's book t'other day??)

Tidy trays

(Second item down)

Thanks Moondog they look good.
We did discuss the book, have ordered it, sad, wannabe Anthea that I am! )

or sad wannabe domestic goddess, dont actually want to be Anthea Turner!!