Desk organizer that clamps on your desk

Twinray makes a organizer called the 'Organize-Up' that can clamp to the edge of your desk or table. I have three, one in my home office, one at work, and one in my craft room. You can use the included base support if the Organize-Up can't be clamped to your work surface.

What I like about it is that it frees up space on my desk, keeps my pens handy, corrals some of the smaller items, and gets my drink off the surface of my desk. I don't have to worry about accidentally pushing my drink over when moving paper around or having it leave a ring on the wood. The cup/glass holder even has a indention in the bottom to collect any drips or condensation. The model I use (Arts & Crafts in purple) has a built in tape dispenser as well.

The fact that purple is my favorite color might have helped convince me to get one but they've more than paid for themselves. When I looked last week only their home site sold the units. I bought mine from one of the catalogs I get regularly, unfortunately I can't remember which one.

For even more organizational joy get a tube of restickable glue and stick small pads of PostIt Notes on the pencil holder. The pads have to be small and not too heavy, restickable glue has it's limits.

Stack those dishes! Use that space!

After I bought the Corelle dishes I found that I had more room vertically in the cupboards. But space gained is never enough, I always want more! So I added some dishware shelves to further increase the cupboards' capacity.

Here's a photo from Amazon of one, but you should be able to find in your local stores as well. One of the big pluses to using these dishware shelves is that you can pull dishes out without needing to move any other dishes.