How to store plastic comb binders?

[dettu]

Bossie is out of town and at last I get to organize his office.  He has about 50 plastic comb binders.  Various projects generate up to 10 binders per project; some add a new one every month.  It's getting messy.  He currently has some stuffed into hanging files, some into redrope expanding files, and some just stacked.  Another person in our office always has me remove the combs, re-punch them in a 3-hole punch, then make up 3-ring binders, to store the material, and it is very time-consuming and rather impractical.



I contacted our office supply contractor and the best they could suggest was storing them in the upright magazine files.  However, some of the project materials *don't* come in plastic combs, so those papers are just sitting around loose, and stuffing them into magazine files seems rather impractical.  Anyone know of a good way to store this stuff?

[bethalize]

I'm confused. Are you looking for a way to store the combs themselves or the documents?

[bethanial]

I would just use the magazine gizmo's, and for the "loose leaf" papers, I'd use binder clips.  We don't have many plastic comb binders, though, so this is just a suggestion.

[judiann]

I agree with the magazine holders. You could also put the loose materials into comb binders to keep them together. Then all can go in the holders with labels. I am in an engineering office and deal with those comb binders quite a bit - specifications, etc. They can be a pain sometimes.

[execsec]

I used to work for an engineering firm many years ago.  We had to send out multitudes of reports that were bound on the GBC binding machines with the spirals.  We had to have many different size spirals available.  We finally bought the clear, shoebox-type storage boxes to store the spirals in.  That way we could see through the box and immediately see what size they were without opening each box.  You can also stack them with the tops on or set them up side by side without the tops.