Desk Intervention

So I struggle with clutter. I always have loose paper, handouts, articles, etc. all over the place! They are used in ongoing projects (like my dissertation) so as soon as I put them away I have to get them right back out and I am left with piles...everywhere!

After three years, tonight my desk went from this....

To this....

How did I not think of this sooner? I mean, I'm about to have a Ph.D. and never thought of this simple, $6 solution to the craziness that is my desk? Oh my...Maybe it's because my brain is full from reading books like this....