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It Pays To Be a Slob

Posted by Gayle Kesten Friday, Mar 7, 2008, 01:28 PM ET

I'm having second thoughts about straightening up my home office.

After reading about a woman out west who just won $10,000 in MyFax's Messy Office Contest, I'm thinking, why not viva le piles! Piles as in piles of folders, reference books, spiral notebooks, etc.

Truthfully, I read about this contest at some point last month, but having covered some other contests I figured I had to draw the line somewhere. I mean, who really enters these contests anyway? (Actually, that's a good question: Do you? Let me know.)

Anyway, according to MyFax, an Internet fax service: "The cleanliness-challenged [Susan] Johnson, who works out of a home office that would actually have to be cleaned for a day to be described as merely 'messy,' was chosen from 10 finalists in an online poll open to the general public." Click here to see just how messy her messy office is, along with nine contest finalists.

Talk about turning trash into treasure -- or something like that.

By the by, MyFax's service seems pretty handy, not to mention an easy and green way to get rid of another piece of equipment in your (messy or clean) home office. For a monthly fee ranging from $10 to $40, depending on volume, MyFax transports your faxes to and from your personal email account. Alternatively, you can choose to send and pick up your faxes from MyFax's Web site. According to the company's FAQ, MyFax lets you send up to eight documents in one fax as attachments; it supports 178 different file formats, including PDF, Word and Excel.

Sure seems like a good way to cut down on those paper piles fax machines love to generate. Then again, should MyFax run another contest...

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