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Great Office Supplies, Organizers, and More at See Jane Work

by Joi on July 19, 2009

Shemergency Survival Kit from See Jane Work.com I was introduced to a new web site this evening and I couldn’t wait to tell you about it. The name is See Jane Work and the merch is as clever as the name. I’m sure you couldn’t tell by the name, but the site is geared toward women in the workplace.

You’re going to absolutely love everything See Jane Work has, including the sassy attitude.

The ShemergencySurvival Kit (above) is not only clever, it’s downright practical. If I were to throw in my Starbucks card and a chocolate bar, I’d be set for anything life threw at me, even Mondays.

From the Web Site:

This compact case is stocked with 24 items including; a folding hair brush with mirror, hair spray, clear elastics, earring backs, hand lotion, nail clipper, an emery board, clear nail polish, nail polish remover, a mending kit, a safety pin, double-sided tape, lint remover, shoe shine wipes, stain remover, static remover, breath freshener, lip balm, dental floss, pain reliever, deodorant wipes, a tampon, adhesive bandages, and facial tissues.

Brilliant. This includes all the things we’re always caught without! (Have you ever had to use a tiny bit of eraser to substitute for a lost earring back? Works well. Looks stupid.)

Check out See Jane Work asap. Be sure to grab some of the notebooks and journals before I snatch them all up. What can I say, it’s a bit of an obsession.

Great Looking and Gently Priced Office Gifts and Office Supplies

by Joi on May 12, 2009

Posy Desktop Photo and Memo Holder

I’ve found a new website that I’m absolutely addicted to – Useful Things.com. They have gifts, gadgets, gizmos, and goodies that you literally just won’t find anywhere else. Best of all, everything is on the very, very cheap.

The first thing I ever got from Useful Things was the Posy Desktop Photo/Memo Holder you see pictured above. When I saw its price ($12.95), I kind of thought, “Uh oh, this is going to be a hot little mess,” but I was delighted to see that it’s not only very well made, it’s a knock out!

It’s perfect for showcasing pictures of loved ones, whether they’re sweethearts, kids, pets, or yourself. Whoever motivates you, inspires you, and makes you smile. My favorite use for mine is this: I like to put my most important To Do tasks on an index card – ones that are more like Gotta Dos than To Dos – and then I stick the index card into one of the slots.

No excuses then! It’s right there staring at me along with my cats’ smiling faces. This process has honestly helped a great deal, because you know how To Do lists are – they get misplaced, stuff gets piled up on them, you forget if this was yesterday’s list or last week’s (hey, it happens).

Find more Office Gifts at Useful Things.com. While on the site, check out the other “shops,” like the ones for the kitchen and the home. You’ll find them under the Shop Menu tab at the top. You’re going to love these, I guarantee it.

Speaking of love, three words: See Star Trek. Three more: Best Movie Ever.

Great Looking Chalkboard Calendar

by Joi on April 13, 2009

Lovin’ it. Big time. This lovely is the Windsor Organizer and Shelf exclusively from the Company Store.com.

You can literally organize your entire week with this modern chalkboard calendar. Post meetings, lunch appointments, television times for American Idol and LOST. There’s even a shelf for keys and hooks for coats, scarves, whatnot.

Organization that looks good AND no more lost keys? Where’s it been all my life?

Classy Padfolio from Cutter & Buck

by Joi on February 16, 2009

Cutter & Buck Padfolio As I sit here with four notebooks scattered to my left (behind a huge mug of coffee and a McDonald’s Sweet Tea) and a stack of papers and a few mystery books to my right (mystery books because our fleshy and furry cat Alexa is spanned across them) – I’m swooning over this handsome leather padfolio from Cutter & Buck.

From the website:
Handsome leather padfolio keeps your business essentials in order. Includes an interior organizer with gusseted file pocket. Zip closure with open front pocket. Includes letter-sized writing pad and signature Cutter & Buck lining.

Color: Rich Mahogany

Click the link below to check out all of the classy office accessories on their classy website.

Cutter & Buck office and travel accessories, available at cutterbuck.com. All orders receive Free Standard Shipping.

Oh, wow. Alexa just shifted positions and unveiled a book I was supposed to write a review for last week.

How Does a Paperless Office Sound to You?

by Joi on January 15, 2009

in⋅ge⋅nu⋅i⋅ty –noun, plural -ties
1. the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness: a designer of great ingenuity.
2. cleverness or skillfulness of conception or design: a device of great ingenuity.
3. an ingenious contrivance or device

Change, change, change. It’s the buzz word of the moment and the mindset of our generation. Granted, there are some things that are changing that aren’t necessarily for the better – but from where I sit, most of the changes are positive.

One very positive change is the move toward wasting less, using less, and being smart about how we go about our daily lives. You know, the change that dresses in green and demands that we all do our part to keep our world beautiful for all of its occupants – the ones with skin, fur, feathers, fins, or all of the above. But enough about my inlaws*.

ipaperlessoffice.com is a website I think you’re going to love.

From their website:
WorldSoft Corporation (WSC), a privately held Delaware corporation, has been in busines since 1987. The company has exclusively focused on the business and personal document imaging marketplace since 1994. We have offered to more than 9,000 customers all of the major manufacturer products of both software and hardware in the document capture, imaging and management industry.

Our staff is constantly attending industry educational experiences to further their expertise in order to serve our customers with the latest and most mature market recommendations. WSC are authorized resellers of products from manufacturers such as Fujitsu, Kodak, Canon, Panasonic, BOWE Bell and Howell, Kofax, Xerox and Visioneer to mention a few.

WSC sales office is located in the Dallas Ft. Worth Texas area and through our industry relationships ship out of 8 locations across the USA.

WSC strives to offer a value based offering of products and services where price is only but one factor. We have received continuous positive comments from our customers and have enjoyed a high repeat business from these valued customers.

In 2004, WSC has expanded its business further by offering personalized printing of hundreds of unique gift, award and promotional products for family, schools, team sports, civic, fraternal organizations, religious groups and business.

The printing process is specialized and has the ability to take digital photography and/or a choice of fonts/lettering to uniquely personalize a truly one-of-a-kind gift or an award for most any family occasion, school function or business purpose. Visit our on-line store: http://www.justmakeitpersonal.com

The staff at WSC looks forward each day in serving our customers needs for digital imaging or specialized digital printing.

Brands You Trust:
ipaperlessoffice.com has the best of the best when it comes to name brands. You’ll find Kodak, Canon, Jujitsu, Panasonic, Visioneer, and Xerox. It reads like a who’s who of tops in Office Supplies, Office Technology, and Office Machines.

I just noticed that they have a special offer going on right now. How does a free scanner sound? Here’s the deal: Purchase a documentINDEXER+ OCR Barcode Version Bundle and get a Kodak i1220 Scanner FREE! or a documentINDEXER+ Advanced Forms Recognition Version Bundle and get a Kodak i1320 Scanner FREE!

Click over to their website and find a whole new way to make changes for the better: ipaperlessoffice.com. They’ll be launching a blog in just a few weeks, I’ll let you know when it’s ready to roll.

* I love and have loved all of my inlaws. They have each had skin and not one has sprouted feathers, fins, or fur. That I know of.

This Week Staples Brings Back Dollar Days

by Joi on January 5, 2009

I smell the skeptism on your breath. I know, I know – Dollar Days usually mean bins of cheap pens, rubber bands, erasers, and notebooks so tiny Smurfette could nap on them.

But Staples is stepping things up in a big way. Check out the following items that are just $1 this week.*

Writing pads, perforated, letter size, wide-ruled, 3/pack, it’d take a Smurf Village to fill these up
4/Pack Dry-Erase Markers
4/Pack Sharpie Permanent Markers
6/Pack Highlighters
Medium Binder Clips (24/Pack)
Gold Paper Clips (100/Pack)
Quartet 8-1/2″ by 11″ Magnetic Dry Erase Board

In addition to the Dollar Days specials, there are a lot of office supplies that qualify for “Buy One, Get One Free.” There are binders, notebooks, filler paper, plastic storage boxes (great for storing Christmas decorations, cans for recycling, etc.), photo paper, etc.

Finally, Staples is getting ridiculously generous with their chairs. There are savings upwards of $50. Click the button below to research their various brands and see which are marked down the most. I noticed that the Sealy Semia Leather Executive Chair was marked down $70 this week.

* While supplies last and limit 2 per customer.

Organize Your Office with Gorgeous Files and Trays from Rose Lane Cottage

by Joi on December 24, 2008

There’s a fine balance between running a HOME office and a home OFFICE. One side of my brain wants our home office to have nothing on its mind but business. I don’t want anything getting in the way of work glorious work. The other part of my brain (the fancier part) wants everything to be “pretty” and “homey.”

So I try to fill our home office with good looking, yet functional, items. The fancy pants side of my brain usually wins out, so I generally shop around for less-stuffy looking accessories and necessities.

When it comes to file holders, appliances, gadgets, and such, I usually stick with the color black. It looks so classy… so cool. It also goes with any other color scheme you throw its way. Also, unlike white accessories, which I used to be hooked on, they don’t show dings as badly.

That’s why I’ve fallen hard for these organizers from Rose Lane Cottage. They’re great-looking and functional. Rose Lane Cottage has a lot of gorgeous things for the home office (or a laid back “home away from home” office). There are lovely wall hangings for the office, folders, files, accessories, binders, clocks, notebooks, etc.

The Black Wire Letter Trays (Set of 2) and the Black ETC Wire File Folder Holders are also available in white. They’re so stylish and gorgeous, and would be the perfect place to “catch” all of the loose papers, envelopes, and, well… whatever this stuff is on my desk.

Rose Lane Cottage is a really fun website to browse, you’ll find so many things that’ll strike your fancy. And a fancy just isn’t worth having until it’s been struck.

Team Dilbert for the Win

by Joi on December 11, 2008

You gotta love Dilbert. He’s up against it, you know? Surrounded by nut jobs and screw ups – but he keeps suiting up.

Don’t you sometimes feel like your life is a Dilbert comic strip and it’s YOU who are surrounded? Last night, my youngest daughter, Stephany, and I went to our favorite Subway. We’d never been to it later than 3:00, so the night crew (insert scream) was unfamiliar to us.

Anyway, ~~we order~~ try to order our sandwiches and what is normally a quick and easy ordeal became a long, drawn out, how stupid can these workers be comedy of errors. I was doing a good job fighting back the laughter until I caught sight of Steph’s face – her mouth was literally hanging open. I looked away just in time.

They were two girls and one was (insert a louder scream) about 6 months pregnant. They couldn’t have mustered 7 brain cells between them if their 3 lives depended on it. Seriously, cheese confused them.

Finally, the young pregnant girl says, “My body’s here but my brain isn’t.” I bit my tongue before “Not a first, I’m betting” came out.

The Dilbert calendars in this post are from Calendars.com and the time to buy them is, oh I dunno, now. The circumstances in our daily lives that make us have to bite our tongues make us laugh hysterically when they’re happening to someone else… And they’re always happening to poor Dilbert.

The calendar at the top of the post is the Dilbert 2009 Softcover Engagement Calendar.

Click on any of the links to take a closer look. If Dilbert is a little too close to reality for you, you’ll find an endless selection of other calendars on the website.

Dilbert 2009 Desk Calendar

The Office Organization Shop Can Be Your One Stop Shop For Office Organization Supplies

by Joi on November 12, 2008

OfficeOrganizationShop.com, a leading distributor in online office supplies and products, has launched a new website. You can find trusted name brands and just about everything you need to bring a little organization to your office. That’s always a great thing, right?

From the Website:

OfficeOrganizationShop.com is one of the world’s premier distributors of office supplies and office products that simplify lives in homes, offices and schools. Shop for innovative office supplies including a broad range of office products like file folders, desktop organizers, presentation products, paper sorters, PileSmart® products and more.

Be sure to check out their Today’s Deals feature for special savings on office supplies.

I excitedly noticed that two of today’s special deals involved hanging folders. You have no idea I how much I love hanging folders. Forget about it – they’re too, too cool.

They’re offering the ReadyTab® File Folders, Assorted colors, 50 per box for under $25 and the EasyView™ Hanging Folders, Letter, 10 per pack for under $10.

Be. Still. My. Heart.

Office Organization Shop.com

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