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31 Easy Hacks To Make Your Workday Better

Toiling away in an office doesn't have to be the worst thing ever.

1. Make it look like you're wicked busy and important.

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2. Use a piece of Scotch tape to clean your keyboard.

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Disgusting crumbs and clumps of dirt, BEGONE.

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3. Or a Post-it note.

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4. Or a Q-tip.

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5. Reupholster a boring desk chair.

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You can make it comfier and more personalized. Directions here.

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6. Make quick and easy iced coffee using the office hot brew.

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Directions here.

7. Use binder clips to keep all your cords neat.

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8. Or use a kitchen basket to secure cords on the underside of your desk.

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9. Fix a scuffed shoe with a Sharpie.

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10. Make your stapler detachable so you can staple in the middle of sheets.

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Here's how.

11. Clip your coffee cup to the edge of your desk to save space.

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12. Make drawer organizers from cardboard or cereal boxes.

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Get the directions here.

13. Air horns + office chairs = minutes and minutes of gleeful cackling at the expense of your coworkers.

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14. Same with jeans and shoes.

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You'll probably go to cubicle-hell for this one.

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15. Add a pocket to a tie for secret and convenient storage.

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Directions here.

16. Store small office supplies in a cheap spice rack.

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17. Make eating at your desk even easier with pen cap utensils.

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Slightly unsanitary-seeming? Maybe. Impressive? Totes.

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18. Ensure that nobody ever steals your sandwich from the communal fridge again.

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Get these bags here.

19. Or forgo dealing with the fridge entirely.

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20. Try a sponge as a genius alternative to an ice pack in your lunch.

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21. Use a spring to keep a papers organized.

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22. Replace your boring water cooler with something more interesting.

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23. Clean up crumbs with a mini USB vacuum.

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24. Keep a pair of reflective sunglasses on your desk so you can tell when someone is coming up behind you.

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26. Use a connector cord to run your headphones under your desk instead of over your keyboard.

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They'll never annoy you again.

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27. Take a leaf out of George Costanza's book and make a desk-bed.

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Can't promise you won't get fired but come on, napping owns.

28. In the winter, keep a decoy jacket on your chair so nobody can tell when you sneak out early.

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29. Eke out the last bits of ink from a seemingly empty cartridge.

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30. Keep yourself on a water-drinking schedule.

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Otherwise you'll get dehydrated and cranky and then nobody wins.

31. Multitask.

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Cool phone.

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