Paper Tamer

M. Rakinul Islam

Just like the great ruins of any ancient civilization, we observe that a monument starts to erode when the subject is left uncared for. The same can be seen with a rarely dusted house, with particles of dust surrounding every corner, regardless of the absence of any activity. A more mundane problem rising from the slow ignorance comes from a rather common yet unnoticed element. Observe any place of work and you will see the key factor for mess in any such situation is paper and its hectic disposal!

“The average office worker generates about 2 pounds worth of paper and paperboard products every day and uses 10,000 sheets of paper per year! Between print mistakes, junk mail, handouts, billing, presentations and packaging, mixed paper products make up an estimated 70% of the total waste in offices.”, reports Shelby Bell in an article published at Rounder Runner’s page in the year 2019. Once we have understood the problem and plan to take an organized approach to the issue, we face a new obstacle regarding the equipment and furniture needed to organize the various kinds of paper, ranging through different matrix of labeling, from importance to dimension.

Now, when we talk about sorting paper, we have to come to an understanding that it contains every form of document, starting from a sticky note to confidential files. We ask you to have faith in us when we non-statistically announce that the ways to organize paper is infinite, with unlimited possibilities, varying from each person to the other, and the best way to create a paper organizer to perfectly suit your own usage is to make one yourself!

Bed Spring Letter Holder

Items:

• Small Board
• Bed Spring

This simple letter holder can easily be conjured together by applying glue or a screw to hold a bed spring in place on a wooden board to act as a fashionable memo holder.

Magazine Madness

Items:

• Empty Cereal Box
• Scissors
• Glue
• Duct Tape
• Decorative Paper

Cutting up an empty cereal box and forging it to serve as a magazine holder comes at a peak of creativity, producing art for almost zero financial cost.

Put a Pin on it

Item:

• Cloth pin (preferably magnetic)
• Glue
• Decoration (Colored paper)

Make multi colored pins to have color coded pins to hold your important documents while labeling them based on importance through the color. It can also be used to clip documents at an eye level to keep in mind.

Painted Storage Box

Item:

• Box
• Sharpies
• Wet Paint
• Brush

Upcycling used empty boxes and decorating them with creative designs create easy to use and carry storage boxes for your wild stack of papers to be kept inside a safe containment for later assortment.

Cereal Box Organizer

Items:

• Cereal Box
• Scissors
• Glue
• Duct Tape
• Colored Tape
• Glitter (Optional)
• Decorative Paper

Redesign a combination of boxes to create the ultimate organizer with multiple slots to hold, preserve and organize your paper troubles.

Given the ease of constructing such handy equipment in the fight against unorganized paper, we can add more features and contribute to a more attractive design. Which in turn helps us increase our efficiency with the witty placement of valuable documents along with the low cost productive financial impact due to use of up cycling.