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My ears perk up

SusanBeth — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:22:26 -0400

at what might be mention of an office supply I don't already have:

Dragon clips?

I'm not really a morning

Rebecca — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:39:03 -0400

I'm not really a morning person myself (I just pretend to be one 5 days a week).

On the wall beside the door (well - it's a corner, about 3" wide) I have a piece of blue tack. To that I stick all the bills (or the dragon clip filled with bills) that must go out with me when I leave.

I don't have a table (or other furnature) in the entry. Instead I use a spot on the floor that I have to walk by to leave. It's right by a trash can (which receives all my junk mail when I come in). My new Tilly hat rests on the closet door-knob (roughly above the spot where I place my bag).

So far this layout has worked pretty well.

Interesting that someone brought this up

star — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:06:19 -0400

I had just created an area by my front door this spring to do exactly what is being discussed.

The dresser I use was a gift from my grandfather to me and the small desk/telephone stand was a $15 find at Hobby Lobby.

I agree with poppingbeavers that it is great when you find a new use for something old and well loved. The brass set on my dresser is an old smoking set that now holds office supplies and matches an old stamp dispenser quite well.

picasawebdotgoogledotcom/Starblazie/Organized (feel free to linkify) :)

Star

"Okay, I need to get in the habit of actually using my planner, but it looks really cool!"

Thx, rfe - research your own furniture history

poppingbeavers — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:44:28 -0400

Glad you like the chest! Yours Rollfool, is gorgeous too, especially having so many little drawers!

Perhaps rfe, instead of gazing at other people’s treasures you could find out some of your own family history. Go around to people if you can and see what they have and ask them the history and the stories they have about the piece. There is often a little story that goes with something old. I have an amazing oak bookcase with glass doors belonged to my grandmother’s sister, originally late 1800’s. She always used to laugh telling how when they moved from the farm she found that it had been bolted to the wall, something she never knew or had remembered. At the time, everyone kidded her endlessly for her bad housekeeping, never cleaning behind the bookcase. Write letters to family and ask about anything they have or that they remember from the past. Ask them to describe in best details they can and send good pictures if possible. Find out who passed down what to whom. Look at old pictures if available and see what furniture was used. Start a notebook on history of family furniture. A very sad thing is that often the history of things gets lost over the years because nothing written down. I’ve taken to taping the essential history underneath some things just in case. Also, there are often uses for old things if they become available to you that you might not think of at the time. I have a sewing box stand built by gr gr gr grandfather that I use for small office supplies like paper clips, erasers, and stickies! If no furniture is available but you can get some history and descriptions, you might something find something similar.

Silly for Tilley

Rollafool — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:20:20 -0400

Sonofagun! The T5 is just what I've been looking for! Narrow brims are so hard to find these days. Thank you so much, sir! A tip o' the (future) hat to ya...

And thanks for the compliments on the staging hutch! Yikes, rfe does that mean now I have to actually write on my blog??

Thanks very much! I've

rfe — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:32:51 -0400

Thanks very much! I've commented over on the blog post. I've also added your blog to my Google Reader!

Very Nice!

rfe — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:30:53 -0400

Thanks for posting the picture - it's lovely. Right now we have an Ikea bookcase that's something like our staging area. Now that we've bought a home and are filling it with better quality furniture, I'd love to find something like this to replace it.

I have a secretary desk my father gave to my mother as a wedding gift but it's currently serving a different purpose in the dining room. Maybe once we buy the better quality dining room table and get the buffet and hutch to go with it, I can move the secretary desk to the staging area by the front door.

About the hat...

ygor — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:13:35 -0400

Ever considered a Tilley ?
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Very, Very Nice Piece!

nay nay — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:46:21 -0400

Gorgeous!!!

nay nay — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:45:54 -0400

Staging Area Photo

Rollafool — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:31:25 -0400

Hi, rfe --

I just posted a picture of the chest on my blog. It's the most recent addition to our small collection, and it has a special connection because it was brought over from "the old country" by my wife's grandmother.

I am blessed with many

poppingbeavers — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:41:12 -0400

I am blessed with many pieces from my family, going back to early 1800's. Here is a picture of the commode,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/giddyorangefizzrings/2613174931...

I would love to see pictures

rfe — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:32:10 -0400

I would love to see pictures of these antiques! The history major in me is intrigued.

That’s what I aim to use

poppingbeavers — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:26:59 -0400

That’s what I aim to use eventually, only mine is an antique commode chest. It has a top drawer then large space underneath with door, one my mum and dad restored many decades ago. It sits in hall by front closet near door and that’s why it would be better than dining table, as jacket in closet and keys already on top of chest. But it’s already piled with other so called necessary stuff and drawer and bottom full and until I can work my way through what to do with all that …
I used to use sacks (and notebook covers too) I made myself and fancied up with appliqué and embroidered designs but people kept wanting them and I kept giving them away, so I started using a plain cotton sack. Then a neighbour gave me an extremely thin fold up one of some nylon type material. It’s really big and carries an enormous amount of weight but since so feather light itself, it seems to make carrying easier. I also have an interesting Indonesian leather messenger type bag from Ten Thousand Villages given as gift, but so stiff, needs a lot of breaking in and I keep avoiding it for that reason.

Launching Area

Rollafool — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:22:12 -0400

I do the same, except I call mine the "staging area." We have an antique wooden ice chest (with drawers) and on top is a Levenger recharging station, the one with three bays and a drawer. My iPod Touch and cell phone live there, and in the drawer are my two lightweight belt bags -- one with a single pocket from TAD Gear for when I just need the iPod or the phone, and a New Sun "Liberty" pouch from Brigade Quartermasters for when I need the whole kit 'n' kaboodle.

Standard paper carry includes a letter-size Circa planner and my Circa PDA (always in my back pocket anyway). Flash drive and Zebra F-301 Compact live on the keychain.

For bigger trips I use an Ecolution messenger bag that's always loaded with an old Baggalini computer sleeve (which I can also pull out when I need just the laptop) and all the cabling I need to plug into phone jacks, projectors, etc. in the field. For such trips, I carry the phone and iPod in the messenger bag and leave the belt bags at home. The messenger bag hangs over the basement door along with my wife's eBags backpack, which is her preferred carryall.

Launching area

circac — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:13:01 -0400

Do you have a launching area that you use to set up your planner and other things you need to take to work or school the next day? What is included in your layout?

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