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My first experience with Freecycle
In the eternal quest for a home full of only things I find useful and beautiful I had decided months ago that I no longer (and never really) needed 22 square decorative pillowcases that I had made in Bali in 2001. I had posted them in vain on both eBay and Craigslist; apparently no one else needed 22 Balinese pillowcases, until Freecycle!
Who makes the best paper notebook?
If you get dreamy-eyed in the notebook aisle of any fine paper store, this podcast will be the most exhilarating 23 minutes of your day. Internet entrepreneur Kevin Rose interviews Brady Dowdy of The Pen Addict in Who Makes the Best Paper Notebook. They geek out on details of notebooks that you didn’t even know existed.
How she deleted 5300 emails in 2 weeks
It seems the norm these days to have an inbox that is weighed down with thousands of emails. With that also comes the expectation that it will always be that way, barring any impulse to blindly delete it all. In my line of work, I’ve come to believe that drastic change is possible, but was still floored when a few weeks ago I received this comment on one of my old videos, Fast Tip for Email Inbox Clean-Up:
The magazine cure
Love magazines? Haulted your subscriptions (kicking and screaming)? Or, watching them pile up until the elusive indulgent weekend when you can get to them?
The Texture app may be the cure to the cluttered magazine corner.
My organizing advice in the International Business Times
Last week my office organizing advice appeared in the International Business Times. Lauren Lyons Cole is a writer who listens in-between the cracks. I was so pleased that in addition to nuts-n-bolts advice about financial spring cleaning, she also wedged in some of my favorite philosophies.