[rescue] OT: Clutter???

[vraptor at employees.org]

I recommend Julie Morgenstern's _Organizing from the Inside
Out_ for those of us that have these issues.  It's the first
organization book I've ever found that addresses the under-
lying cause of our need to "pack rat" information.

I bought it after after a flip-through.  In the space of the 5 minutes
I looked at it in the store I realized I was not going into the
computer room anymore because of the level of clutter in there, and
that my S/O and I were going out to a restaurant whenever we needed to
talk as there was no place in the house to sit and talk without being
accosted by stuff piled up.

We've made it through two rooms so far.  It's taken a while, but it's
working.

=Nadine=

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 05:13:28PM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
>
>> I'm a pack rat.  So's my wife.  As of our last move we had over 22000lb of
>> household goods to transport.  Over five tons of that were books and
>> paper.
>
>The papers easy to deal with.  Get an optical library, then scan all
>paper and burn it.  You might not want to do that to some papers, like
>say wedding certificates, etc.  But certainly something suitable to do
>with papers like price lists.
>
>Now if only I could find the appropriate settings to make sure that my
>pencil written, and ink written with pen that bleeds notes are
>readable on the screen.  If I could do that, I'd scan all my old class
>notes, and thus free up the better part of a file cabinet.
>
>--
>Joshua D. Boyd
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