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Storage

So, you've got a French Press, a digital timer, a measuring spoon and an airtight container of high grade, coarse ground coffee beans. Where do you keep them in between brewings?

The Lunchroom or Office Kitchen

If you work in a relatively small office and you trust your coworkers, you may decide to keep your Cubicle Coffee-making supplies and equipment in the office kitchen or lunchroom. If your office kitchen has any kind of cabinets or storage, this may be acceptable. Then again, if you've ever had your lunch "mysteriously" disappear from the office refrigerator, it may be better to keep your supplies close at hand. If you work in a larger office or manufacturing facility, then don't even think about keeping your stuff in the common lunchroom. It will be on eBay faster than you can suck the filing out of a Krispy Kreme donut.

Cubicle Overhead Storage

Our personal preference for the best place to keep our supplies is in the locking flipper door unit, a.k.a. cubicle overhead storage bin. Just toss out a couple of those old binders you never use and make some space on one side of the storage unit.

The obvious advantage is that you can close the door at night and ideally lock it. If you can't lock it, at least your supplies will be out of sight. If your coworkers and the cleaning staff can't see your supplies, they're less likely to help themselves. Just make sure to take everything out every few weeks or months and wipe the area down with some Windex and paper towels.

And be cautious if you also keep a supply of sugar packets (or hot cocoa, crackers, nuts, etc.) with your supplies. Apparently mice can very easily get into cubicle storage and file cabinets. But the good news is that the mice don't seem to like ground coffee at all.

The Vertical Filing Cabinet

If you are blessed with a low wall cubicle and have no overhead storage to call your own, then odds are good that you at least have a file drawer or two. Get a small, used cardboard box, cut it down to size with your trusty office xacto knife and place it in one of your drawers. Just be careful when you open and close the drawer -- you don't want to slam it and risk shattering the press pot carafe.

Four drawer vertical filing cabinets have the added advantage of providing a nice workspace on top for brewing your Cubicle Coffee.

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