I don’t think I ever mentioned what I nearly cried over a couple of weeks ago: the best Christmas gift my mom got me (apart from my T3, of course!) - so I thought I’d showcase it.

I saw the Space Bar Desk Organizer on Quirky (a website where all these terribly clever inventions are created and sold for a pretty fair price) a few months back when the site was featured on the Today Show and instantly fell in love.

{ Back story: I live at home with my parents for the time being, and thus have my entire life crammed into (drum roll!) literally a 10x10 space. We’re talking dressers, a queen sized bed, bookcases, DVD racks, boxes of craft supplies, my *ahem* clothing/accessory obsession, a desk…you can see where I’m going with this. I need more space. }

So this amazing invention: as a graphic designer, I have flash drives. Lots of them. Add in a couple iPods, a cell phone, a couple digital cameras and a few external hard drives and presto! No more USB ports on the iMac. So this guy was a real life saver: now I have four extra ports (and they’re in the FRONT, which *yay!*) and I can save TONS of desk space by sliding my keyboard underneath the Space Bar! An added bonus is that I can fit my external hard drive behind my iMac on the bar and it stays hidden.

It’s a small-space dweller’s dream come true. And for 80 bucks, it’s not going to burn a hole in your pocket. Hell, I bet your iPhone bill this month is twice that.