Streamline Your Supplies

All You Need in Your Desk Drawer

• Forever Stamps, so you don’t have to worry about changes in the postal rate.
• Personal stationery, for heartfelt notes.
• A black permanent marker, for addressing packages.
• A silver one, to use on dark paper.
• An angle-tip highlighter.
• Correction tape, to fix mistakes (similar to the liquid stuff, but without the drying time).
• Mechanical pencils, so you don’t need a bulky sharpener
• Titanium scissors, because they stay sharp for years.
• Aesthetically pleasing paper clips cost about the same as standard ones.
• Small and large sticky notes, for reminders, shopping lists, and epiphanies.
• A box of your favorite pens: Use (and lose) only one at a time.
• A classic stapler in a bright color that’s easy to spot, in case it escapes to another room.
• A weighted tape dispenser that holds a fat roll of tape.

The Experts:

• Beth Alcazar, organizing and cleaning blogger, The Neat Get Neater.
• Heather McNulty, co-owner of the stationery shop Rock Paper Scissors, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
• Donna Smallin, author of A to Z Storage Solutions ($11, amazon.com).