It’s that time of the year again; time to write down your resolutions for the New Year.

You probably have more zeal to follow through on these resolutions than last year’s. After all, if you’d followed through on last year’s resolutions, think about where you’d be at now!

We at eofficedirect.com want to help you. Below we have listed some of the most common resolutions, and how we can help you if, heaven forbid, they fall through.

1. Lose Weight

Besides being one of the most common resolutions, losing weight is also one of the hardest ones to follow through on. So why bother? Gyms are so expensive. Why not just adjust your surroundings so you don’t notice the extra pounds? More...

What was used to help build the Great Pyramid of Giza?

What was used to chisel the Easter Island stone heads?

What has been given the nickname of “man’s best friend”?

What one object did the astronauts insist they bring on the first trip to the moon “in case everything that could go wrong does wrong”?

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Not exciting enough of a blog post for you? Then you, my friend, have been cooped up in your cubicle too long and let your imagination go to waste. File storage boxes are AWESOME! Don’t believe me? Just off the top of my head here are a few things I can think of to do with them:

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Well, it’s finally that time of year again. Tables will be spread with turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, hot fresh bread, apple pie, pumpkin pie, and many more treats. Everyone will eat enough so that “weight loss” is guaranteed to be on our list of New Year’s resolutions.

We at eOfficeDirect.com have been incredibly blessed this past year, and we hope you have been too. Every day, we are thankful for the opportunity to help make your business run better.

If you’re one of our customers, you know how hard we work to make sure your experience with us is as pleasant as possible. We want you to be thankful for our service every time you come to us; whether it’s to place an order with no hassle or have us ship out a replacement at no cost.

So from our family to yours, we hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

500 Series vs. 600, 700, and 800 Series

600 Series vs. 700 Series vs. 800 Series

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... don’t buy our calendars! While we at eOfficeDirect.com are mindful of other people’s views, the calendar printers are not as much. Instead of acknowledging the Maya prediction that the world will end on December 21, 2012, our printers have blatantly included December 22-31. We tried arguing that they could save a few trees by not printing that last week and a half, but they would have none of it. They also refused to include my suggestion for a “Final 10 Days Of Our Lives” countdown to remind people of the impending doom. As a final jab, the printers even had the audacity to include mini calendars at the end of some forecasting a “2013”!

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We’re all familiar with office chair racing. Most of us have raced down hallways in school or at work, but that’s as far as we’ve taken it. Leave it to the Germans to things to the next level. 

This past April was the third annual Office Chair Racing Championship, held in the town of Bad Koenig. Sixty-four racers participated in everything from your typical run-down office chair to tricked-out masterpieces featuring inline skate wheels. Racers start off going down a ramp to give them a boost, and can hit speeds of up to 22 mph.  Along the 200 meter route they have to navigate multiple ramps and jumps. Here’s a short video of the event: 

Since we are cooped up in our offices for eight hours at a time, sitting in the same old chairs, this seemed like a brilliant idea. We got some of our chairs together and started comparing them for what features we’d like in our racers. Top on our list were that they had to have a 5-point base for stability, an adjustable pneumatic seat for suspension and shock absorbing, and hard wheels for additional speed. Here are our top picks:

The HON Company recently introduced a major refresh of its iconic 10700 Series desk collection.  In addition to style enhancements like frosted doors and modesty panels, they've added a number of new products to the line to make the 10700 Series a comprehensive solution for any office.

With new mobile pedestals, lateral files and storage towers, and new credenzas and peninsulas available, the 10700 Series desk collection is perfect for your office.

Visit the HON website for more information.

From the Wall Street Journal:
Workers are spending long hours in their chairs. Yet most employers take a one-size-fits-all approach to supplying chairs, then make things worse by failing to train people how to adjust them to fit. Sue Shellenbarger has details on Lunch Break.

You have a LOT of files to store

If you work in a doctor’s office or another type of office, wherein having access to all of your files—both old and new—is imperative, HON lateral filing cabinets are extremely useful. This is because a lateral filing cabinet can hold a great deal more than a vertical filing cabinet. More files per drawer can go into lateral filing, so you can keep all of your archives on hand when necessary. Also, they tend to be more stable in terms of weight distribution, which means that lateral filing systems are less likely to fall over. Lateral filing lets you store about the same amount of files in each drawer, which creates balance and a stable unit.

You need quick, easy access to your files