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Tag: clutter

  • Why wait until 1x a year to clear your computer desktop?

    When was the last time you organized your computer desktop? Well, this is your chance since today is National Clean your Virtual Desktop Day.

  • The First Thing You Should Do After You Return Home From A Trip

    Check your refrigerator for food that went bad. Take the time to look and especially inspect your fresh foods to see if they went bad. If something does not look or smell food, throw it out. As some have been known to say, when in doubt, throw it out. Plus, doing this helps to declutter…

  • Start Here

    Looks like I did my spring cleaning way too early. Here’s to the next chapter.

  • Buh Bye Storage

    After 7 years, I was finally able to break free from storage. Here’s the Foursquare Tweet to prove it. RT @arthrme: I just ousted @StephCockerl as the mayor of Manhattan Mini Storage on @foursquare! http://t.co/wlGmi3cC -Nice work — ManhattanMiniStorage (@ManhattanMini) April 5, 2012  

  • Why you should clean up inactive WordPress Plugins

    Just in case you didn’t know, Thesis (aff link), a premium WordPress theme, recently upgraded versions from 1.8 to 1.8.2. After the upgrade, I logged back in to the WordPress Dashboard and could not find the Thesis Dashboard Menu. So I went to Thesis support section to see what to do. The answer was to…

  • Technology Spring Cleaning in Progress

    This morning, I ran across and tweeted a NYT article titled Gadgets You Should Get Rid Of (or Not). Personally, this process has been going on with me for months, no years. For instance, I ditched my landline 2 days before Chirstmas. Since the landline is gone, I downgraded my 4 in 1 printer for a…

  • Evaluating my email relationships

    Now that things are quiet on Thanksgiving Eve, I did something that I rarely had the chance to do, go through my email accounts. They say that its good practice to keep a separate account for purchases. Therefore I went through said account and did some soul searching. Last week was National Unfriend Day, so…

  • New cell phone? Take the time to review contacts.

    With any upgrade comes an opportunity to review and re-access. With cell phone upgrades, this is often the case. If your getting of have gotten your phone upgraded recently or not, the provider asks if you would like to transfer your contacts over. However, is that all there is to it? How important are the…

  • Cleaning up the e-mail clutter

    It’s a new year and everyone is talking about organizing their physical environment such as cleaning overflowing paperwork and purging the things one no longer needs or uses. Why not take it a step further by cleaning up the online clutter in the inbox? E-mail that has not been read in over a year should…