(Part 2) Best office storage supplies according to redditors
We found 210 Reddit comments discussing the best office storage supplies. We ranked the 117 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Get a note book and a file drawer for records. Any repairs or improvements, save the receipts. I also save utility bills and check them about every 6 months. You never know when Comcast decides to add some new fee. Or if your water bill goes way up and you don't do things differently than last year, that can be a sign of a leaking pipe.
In the storage thing I save all the instruction books and warranty papers for new appliances.
Something like:
http://www.amazon.com/IRIS-Letter-Size-Portable-Wing/dp/B00CY53K88/
http://www.amazon.com/Storex-Portable-Storage-Drawer-61523U01C/dp/B002JGJ47S/
In the notebook, I usually keep names and numbers of repair people. So if my neighbor asks, I can tell them. Or if they had something done that I want done maybe next year, I can write it down.
Also, the notebook is where I write down instructions for things that only get done once per year, like draining the sprinkler system.
I buy fabric when I find something I like. I don't have an LNS near by so when I travel I try to stock up on unique colors or counts (25ct or 40ct).
Current Storage Solution: File Box
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Add a locking box like this to the list so they can't just take your things anyway.
And I agree with everyone else. This is abuse, and I hope you can find a way to get out of there soon. Is there not even a friend you can crash with?
I'm glad I read this.. I have been bicycle touring on/off for a couple of years, and I carried a laptop briefly in 2016. When I packed the laptop I decided it had to be in a plastic hard case. At the time it was a big decision whether to add a case or to press it into a pannier bag along with all the other stuff I carry and risk the loss. Your post shows that I probably made a wise choice to use a case.
I chose to carry it in a Pelican 1085. This was a case which gave ample room for an Acer Aspire S13, as well as all the other electronic loads I wanted to carry... kobo e-ink reader, fluke 101 multimeter, beaglebone black, bluetooth keyboard, power supply & cords, usb power monitor, etc.
The Pelican 1085 is a massive case in the range of briefcase size & weight. It weighs 3 lbs by itself. It was very difficult to fit it into an Ortlieb Classic rear pannier. I swore up and down "never again" and after riding just 700 miles with my mobile hobo media studio, I gave away the case and pawned off the laptop for a song.
Now I'm setting up my next trip and once again am neck deep into Thinkpads and tablets and cases and hopefully I can give you a couple leads.
There are not many notable hard cases for laptops. Pelican offers a couple of interesting cases.
Pelican 1085: 363x263x50mm. At around 3 lbs, and the size of a small briefcase, this was the case I lugged around on a bicycle tour until I swore never again. It's a good case for someone who travels with a large machine as long as you don't need dunk-worthy waterproof sealing. Without additional latches around the rim, there's just no way this unit is water tight. It kept my Acer pristine while being lugged around on a bicycle and that's a very positive result. If packed properly with foam, you could use this as a seat with a laptop inside.
Pelican 1070cc: 325x227x18mm. Nearly the same footprint as a 1085, but only 2.3 lbs. It's about an inch thinner than the 1085. This would be an excellent case for a Thinkpad X1. You're pushing 5 lbs total weight, and again, I think the external volume would make it tough to carry in a bag. Too thin for Thickpad.
Pelican 1075: 282x201x41mm. Notable mention, although the only modern devices that would fit in it are like a Yoga 11 Skylake, Huawei Matebook tablet, or Macbook 12. The Macbook 12 fits in this hard case according to photos on an Amazon review.
306x209x20.3 (12.05x8.23x.800")... This is the Thinkpad x250's dimensions.
Portable A4 file Box Transparent plastic box. The 310x230x40mm advertised dimensions don't make it clear if internal or external dimensions. US Letter paper size is 279.4 x 215.9. Judging by the photos, it looks like they've put either construction paper or some folders inside and it doesn't seem to lay flat. I'm guessing it would be too small for your x250.
Flambeau Conductive 12x8. 301.6x303.2x20.8... Blow molded case listed without weight. I would imagine it is in the 2-3 lb range of weight. This is an interesting box because of the conductive plastic used, but it's otherwise of low cost construction. The hinge is just flexing plastic that will fatigue, for example.
Plasticase 642 Kitcase. 333x298x70mm. Huge. Only 1.01 lbs. Voluminous. Articulated hinge. If only the x250 fit in the smaller and lighter 645.
I have looked for carbon fiber sleeves and plastic cases and fiberglass cases and sleeves and the above is pretty much what I have found. Besides the above listed items, I would recommend digging through https://www.casesbysource.com/brand/cases-by-source
Personally I'm interested in the A4 / US Letter size document cases. They are just the right shape and cheap & lightweight. Finding the right one for your laptop might be difficult but you could always order a few and return all but the best one.
I store them in milk crates. Fits 24 and stack. You can
steak then from the back of Wallmart.I was unable to find anything with the same dimensions. But a few that were in the general ballpark:
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https://www.amazon.com/Victrola-VA-20-Wooden-Record-Crate-x/dp/B07DS3WCXB
Got it for Christmas this year.
Pretty soon you'll be in bucketdor and then chest'a'dor territory!
What to keep
Keep anything related to taxes for at least 5 years. This is important for verification, as well as possible audits.
Keep anything related to bank accounts, credit cards, loans/mortgages, pay stubs, and other financial stuff for as long as the account is active, plus at least one fiscal year.
Keep any bills, even after they've been paid, for at least a year. You need them to contest charges, and often information on bills is used for identity and account verification.
Keep all identification records (IDs, SS cards, birth certificates, passports, official change of address forms, etc.) in a safe, secure location that can still be accessed at need. Don't carry them with you (except driver's license), or you risk losing them and giving someone an easy way to steal your identity.
Keep everything having to do with your house, apartment, car, boat, or any other large property that you own/rent and have to register or pay taxes on, for as long as you own/rent it.
Keep the warranty info and proof of purchase for any expensive things you own, for the duration of the warranty.
Keep copies of any personal medical documentation, unless you are covered by a provider that uses an electronic medical record. And even then, it's good to have a paper copy for backup and personal reference.
It's also a good idea to keep a copy of anything that you have signed, for as long as is relevant.
And of course, if you ever get involved in any sort of legal trouble, audit, lawsuit, divorce, or anything along those lines, KEEP EVERYTHING.
The bottom line is: If you can imagine a plausible reason why you might need it in the future, for reference or verification or proof of something or evidence or anything else, you should keep it. If you have a good file system, it won't take up much room or time, and you'll be very happy you did when that future situation comes up.
What to keep it in
If you only have a few people's papers to worry about, I suggest one of these or something similar. It's a latchable bin or box with built-in rails for hanging folders. If you are worried about security, it might be worth getting one of these, a fireproof (and waterproof) safe. It won't keep someone from walking off with the entire safe, but it prevents casual pilfering, and protects your important documents in case of a fire or flood.
Drawers or file cabinets are useful for larger organizational systems, but a household will almost never need something that large, and they tend to be bulky and hard to move around.
Do not, under any circumstances, try to store anything medium- or long-term in open paper trays. They won't stay organized, as it's too easy to just toss stuff on top, and if you need to move it around it'll just end up in a pile somewhere.
How to organize it
First, get some hanging folders for general categories and file folders for subcategories. They are very cheap. You can get different colors for fancy organization and scrapbooking, but it's probably not worth it. As long as they have tabs for writing labels on, you should be fine.
That's all you need. Well, besides the box (and a pen). There are lots of organizational system kits that you can buy for loads of money with colors and stickers and indexes and charts and fancy little view windows, but all you really need are some folders and a place to put them.
Start out with some general categories: Medical/Insurance; Credit Cards; Bank Accounts; Taxes; Bills; Rental/house/car/mortgage stuff; Identification papers; Warrenty/owner's manual info. That sort of thing. And in each category, make a file folder for, say, each bank account, or each credit card account, or each person's medical info, or each company that sends you bills. This takes very little time to set up, but makes it a lot easier to find things when you need them.
The thing to remember when setting up such an organizational system is this: Do what makes sense to you. You're the one who is going to have to remember how to use this system in the future, so file things in a way that makes intuitive sense at the time. If all of your credit and checking and savings and mortgage are through the same bank, maybe the bank should be your major category and each of those accounts should be a subcategory. If you would rather think of it as "things I own" and "things I owe" then that works too. If you want to get rid of subcategories entirely and give everything its own folder in alphabetical order, that's cool. Whatever makes sense to you, do that. And once you have a system, try not to make any drastic changes. You'll have a hard time remembering whether to use the old or new system, and that causes confusion, which leads to apathy, which leads to everything in a giant unorganized pile.
Where to put it
Ideally, somewhere that's near enough to the door or mailbox that you won't just toss things on the table to file later, but out-of-the-way enough that it's not an obvious target if someone breaks into your house. On a shelf is better than in a closet. Again, the important thing is that it's convenient enough that you'll consistently file things rather than leaving them "for later."
And finally
As OP said, it's also a very good idea to have a trashcan right next to the door, or even right under the mailbox, where you can immediately toss anything that isn't worth keeping (junkmail, mailers, credit card offers, etc.). Anything with sensitive info should be shredded or torn up first, of course.
A couple thoughts on this:
If a workflow update is not in the cards right now, then what you may be looking for is a legal-size tote:
https://www.amazon.com/Vaultz-Locking-Personal-Documents-VZ01189/dp/B000GOYFE2/
It's basically like a thicker briefcase that can hold larger legal-size documents, but has a nice filing system inside. Cheap & portable!
Also, congrats on the new spouse, new degree, and new apartment! All of those happened around the same time for me as well, it was quite a whirlwind of a time haha.
I organized my most important papers in manilla folders and put them in this kind of box. For the other piles of school papers, I sorted them by year and class as best as I could, and put them in a Bankers Box knockoff with lids.
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Start by going through your room and putting the papers into piles according to class or year. Those piles become organized into boxes. It's important to label them with each class or year, so you can quickly get to the stack you want. Smaller binders may fit in this type of box. For big binders, you might want to use a legal size box, or take the papers out of the binders and use cardboard dividers inside the box.
I have a 12" ported sub that bisects the trunk, does that count?
The real answer is I use a generic square plastic bucket for cars that I keep car stuff in, a backpack emergency kit, a tool bag, and some bungee cords going across the top of the trunk that I can hook bags onto with smaller bungees or carabiners if needed. I don't really use my trunk for temporary storage though, most of the time temp stuff goes in the back seat.
In the past I used a collapsible bin like this with some bungiees to separate sections as needed but my sub made that less practical unless I didn't center the sub.
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I’d say clear totes with basic labels like kitchen 1, kitchen 2, bedroom, etc. Open each of your existing boxes and sort any keep items into the clear totes. All the stuff leaving can go back into the cardboard boxes that should be empty.
Also for making lists, These at stickers saved my life when storing things for a move. I’d suggest them! The app made it easy and any time we needed to find “that one thing” I could search the app.
Duck Pack & Track Scannable Storage Labels, White https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GPB66P8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_iRbCCbHAQEK29
Seriously Google Calendar with Text Message Alerts and tasks can be such a useful tool. As for papers I put old tests in a small file cabinet box that is similiar to this one except mine looks cooler. I have a binder with one class that doesn't work well. I switched to just filling up 3 subject notebooks. Also for my econ class that has hand outs I also use a folder.
Portable file folder box, like this
If you're desperate, you could make the same kind of lines in Word using tables and line design. I do this for my Japanese students when we practice writing.
Obviously it would take lots of printing/copying to do that way, though.
Edit: found it on Amazon
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I have a setup pretty similar to yours (same mobo, same cards, maybe same processor, can't see your fully); here are some things I've learned about it.
First is that to run more than 5 cards per rig you are going to need to run Linux. I've tried 5 cards on Windows 7 and it ran but unstably for a while with hand-picked older drivers. Supposedly Windows 8 can handle 5 without trouble, but I haven't tried it. I haven't been able to get Win7 to run 6; I don't think Win8 will either. I wanted to run windows for voltage control (my first cards were Sapphires), but it wouldn't do what I needed. Linux doesn't have voltage control, but with your cards that shouldn't be an issue because they can (usually) run the F43 BIOS that runs at a much more reasonable 1.09v. I would strongly suggest flashing them sooner rather than later; it really helps with heat among other things.
(btw, if you are using milk crates for cases, these will fit 6 cards better than the staples/home depot ones: http://www.amazon.com/24qt-Blue-Red-Green-Crates/dp/B007IUPR0I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370712198&sr=8-1&keywords=milk+crates)
I tried Xubuntu 13.04, Lubuntu 12.04, and BAMT on usb drives. I could not get the 'buntus to run stably. They would crash, and they had issues/bugs with rebooting where I would have to be physically next to the machine pushing the power button. I'm not blaming it on the distro; the problem may have been installing it to a usb flash drive. BAMT Litecoin ran like a rock with 5 cards after I updated the Catalyst drivers, but I could not get it to run with more than 5. Any time I plugged a 6th card into the mobo anywhere, X Windows would not start. I eventually went with Debian 7.0 Wheezy, Catalyst 13.4, and the latest cgminer installed on a regular HD. Note that you have to compile Cgminer to work on wheezy (the readme has instructions and dependencies); don't forget to download and copy the ADL includes into the ADL_SDK folder if you go this route.
So far, Debian has been running smoothly with 6 cards. You might even be able to do 7, but you would probably need another power supply with an Add2PSU, and 7 cards don't fit very well in even a 24 qt milk crate.
For linux, your remote admin choices are more limited, but the OS is designed to use them so I think it works more seamlessly. You can use simple SSH to control the boxes via command line. If you don't know the linux command line this may be a pain. You can also use xrdp ("sudo apt-get install xrdp" without the quotes at the command line) to connect from any computer and get a full graphical interface. You can connect through windows using Remote Desktop Connection. There are other options including various versions of VNC, but those are the ones I like.
I am planning on running ANUBIS on a Raspberry Pi to get a similar kind of remote monitoring capability to the one BAMT provides out of the box. I haven't yet set that part up; if you message me I can give you an update when I do. Anubis is also supposed to be able to do remote control of cgminer; this would be good because then you'd only need one computer that was accessible from the internet.
Oh, and you will need powered risers. I got mine from BuyAHash. His username on Reddit is mrstickball . I had a great experience; he had great communication and the shipping was fast once the risers arrived from the factory.
Did you base it on one of these record cases?
Retround Vintage Retro Vinyl leather Record Holder Case
Odyssey LKP1 Lp Case Black
Vaultz VZ00490 Locking Vinyl Record Storage Case
Retround Vintage Vinyl Record Storage
ClearClick Handmade Wooden Record Storage Carrying Case
something like this? https://www.amazon.com/Bankers-Box-Portable-Plastic-0086304/dp/B077FL72GQ/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=plastic+tote+box+handle&qid=1572737470&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&sr=8-8
Ikea has a lot of versatile storage solutions, so you might be able to find something there if you have one nearby? If she's got a room, there's a lot of wall storage options, and if she hasn't, then there are a lot of cool box storage options. Even if you don't amazon's got some good options too. I've got about 6 of those plastic tackle boxes and a dozen or so hoops and I can fit them all into a black banker box I got off of Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AJQGNU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
It fits neatly in the closet, I can bust it out and grab my thread collection when I need to plan a new project, and while I'm actually working on a project I keep it in one of the larger scrapbook boxes like this : https://www.amazon.com/IRIS-Portable-Project-Case-Clear/dp/B00EFY6CS6
That things fits up to a 12 inch hoop, a folder for the pattern, and scissors, threads, seam ripper etc. Bonus points for keeping the stitching clean if you've got pets or kids, or are clumsy or careless (I fall into that latter category, I love this freaking box).
I guess it all depends on how she wants to store her supplies and how much she plans on having in the future. Hope this can give you some ideas! Tell her happy birthday from the embroidery subreddit!
I'm sorry for the stress you are under, but you are a great person for helping your SO like this. He won't be able to think straight for a while. You helping with this will be a huge load off his shoulders.
I'm based in the US, but my father passed a while ago so I've had to do the same thing. Just a couple things I learned. I was able to rent a casket. I know this sounds weird, but hear me out. :) It costs a fraction of a full casket. You pay for the actual box the person is in, but the funeral home puts a dressy casket frame around that internal box. They keep the external frame after the funeral, and your family member is buried or cremated in the inner box.
One thing I am glad I bought was a small, portable filing box. I kept all of the paperwork in there along with a collection of the extra death certificates. That way I always knew where my fathers items were.Keep copies of his incoming bills, insurance items, subscriptions, etc.
And remember, for almost all of these things, there is no huge rush. Take time to help your SO. Once the funeral is over just attack these things slowly.
As an undergrad student, this is all-too familiar XD Long post incoming, I’m proud of my findings :P
Whenever I move into a new dorm room, I move all the rabbit supplies in before releasing the bunzilla. The room is totally different, but mr bunny still recognizes the smell of his old things (throw rugs, toys, litterbox, (my) his sweater) and the first thing he tends to do is jump in the litterbox. That’s when things go smoothly.
Other times, he’s thrown a fit and tried to tear up the rugs, toys, anything and everything. Having his chewable and tearable things nearby helps give him an outlet for his temper tantrum. When this happens I stay during his whole fit until he falls asleep. After that, if the room is rabbit-friendly, then he settles down just fine.
Car travel is great because you can make the perfect bun crate. I don’t use my normal crate, but instead I fashion a larger space out of a plastic storage bin (sorta like this? ), one that has large air holes all along the sides. On the floor, I put a layer of litter, then a small towel “nest” that will keep the bun scooped up (so he can lie securely in place without getting jostled about the larger container) On the side he’ll be facing, I put a handful of Timothy hay. With this setup, you can leave hay within reach without stuffing it in his face or making him pee on the same hay he’s eating. If your bun happens to drink out of a bottle, this is the one time when bottles can be superior to bowls. I wouldn’t put a water bowl in the crate, but I stop frequently to offer him water. Just make sure he doesn’t eat a lot of the plastic off the walls and that the lid is secure. I use this kind of crate when I’m on the road for more than an hour.
Amazon has a number of options.
24 Qrt Crate
smaller crate