Effortless organizing

Give it away.

March 2, 2012

Loving this quote that I came across recently: I like everything I own to be something I use almost every day. If I’m not using it, someone else could be. It doesn’t seem fair to keep things like that. Like having a cabinet full of books that aren’t being read. Give those away. Those are [...]

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Getting our photos in order (at last).

March 25, 2011

Getting (and keeping) digital photos in order seems like it should be so easy. But it hasn’t been, for me. So I’m celebrating, because this week I finally finished working on this project that has been a monkey on my back for too long! I was great about organizing our paper photos into albums. It’s [...]

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Digital disaster planning.

March 9, 2011

After hearing from a family member who had a house fire (thankfully, everyone is OK!), and then having our cooktop short out and start igniting for no reason in the middle of the day (could have burned down the house, but didn’t), and then having to delete everything off my laptop to send it in [...]

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We heart it.

February 1, 2011

I’m always spotting inspirational images online that I want to save and look at later. I used to save these to my hard drive, but I ran out of space. Plus, I could never remember where the images came from. Then I found about about We Heart It, which is a really cool website that [...]

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One program to rule them all.

November 19, 2010

Good: I love to clip recipes to cook someday. Bad: I have huge piles of recipe clippings that are impossible to organize. (So does my mom. So did my grandma. I will inherit these someday.) Good: Every week I try new recipes from cookbooks, the internet, and my recipe clippings pile. Bad: I sometimes give [...]

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Un-organizing my bookmarks.

August 23, 2010

I love the feeling of being organized, but to be honest, the time I spend organizing stuff is time I could spend doing something fun instead. My favorite organizing techniques are so simple, they’re practically effortless. I’m collecting a few of my favorite effortless organizing tips here, for all three of the people who read [...]

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