It’s all too easy, when burdened down with work and stressed out, to let your to-do list get a little unruly. A sloppy to-do list, however, is a source of much stress and wasted effort. Whip your task list into shape.
Most of us are more concerned about the tidiness of our directories and files than we are about our physical computer. A dirty computer is a failure-prone computer, so let’s dig in with some cleaning tips.
Erin Doland is a minimalism guru and editor of the home and office organisation blog Unclutterer. Today she’s taking a look at the psychology behind clutter, and why it’s hard for you to get rid of something once you’ve touched it.
Whether you’re declaring email bankruptcy or laundry bankruptcy, sometimes the only way to climb out from under the pile of real or virtual clutter is to start from scratch. Our advice: Don’t be afraid to declare bankruptcy as often as you need.
If there’s one prevalent cause of clutter in most office workspaces, it’s paper. Try as you may to eliminate it, the papers are always piling up. Fujitsu’s ScanSnap portable scanner turns your papers to PDFs in one step.
If your community has kerbside or drop-off recycling, it’s easy to recycle things like newspapers and empty bottles. What about the stuff your friendly recycling crew doesn’t pick up? Find out where to recycle everything from Crocs to printer cartridges.
Hard drive space is cheaper than ever, but as Parkinson’s Law dictates, your data (and, let’s face it, BitTorrent addiction) somehow expands to fill your space available for storage. Here’s a few simple but effective ways to clean out your hard drive.
You buy great food at the store, but schedule changes and time crunches leave you with extras that are headed for the trash—unless you intervene. We asked some skilled food bloggers how they utilise their unused and excess ingredients.
Chances are your computer’s desktop and other folders aren’t cluttered because you like it that way, but because you don’t want to spend time organising every file that hits your hard drive. Automate your file organisation and stay clutter-free without the effort.
It can be easy to get lazy about debt because the more it grows, the more we tend to avoid it. The problem is harder to run from when you know exactly how much that debt is costing you every month.
