Pictures. I got a TON of them. Here, there and everywhere.
Anything from 2005 to the present are burned to CD's, the CD's are labeled with what is on them. As of last year (2008) I have been printing an index print with the CD's to keep with the CD. (awesome idea!)
And now I have slowly started moving everything from my hard drive to a site I love called Shutterfly. They are awesome, have a free service that I can upload all my pictures to, and even a website I can share with family, so they can see my pictures on a fun site!
Not to mention I make a yearly photo book for both grandparents of each kid (to save on money, Bagel's is for Christmas, and Weaky's will be on Mother's Day)
See my issue with not keeping my pictures on the computer, is when I want to blog, or pull up a picture, I love to just search my files for the pictures. BUT pictures take up a retarded amount of space that my 6 year old computer is not up for holding. (it gets slower with every month of pictures I dump into her!)
So if everything is on Shutterfly, I can just go get them there! Hooray!
I am off to upload this months pictures there now!!
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Thursday, February 5, 2009
A little story...
It's been a while, and I have been working at decluttering, and attempting to organize. What I want to share today is a Flylady message that was emailed to me.
There was a lady, who's MIL got sick, needed to go to assisted living, and her home needed to be sold, cleaned and sorted all in 6 weeks! The lady said that there was magazines dated from 1969 still there!! She was sad that a daughter-in-law was in charge of figuring what items were to keep and what to toss out. This motivated the DIL to clean and declutter her home, knowing that she didn't want anyone to have to go through what she was going through.
This inspired me to remember to declutter, and to keep things updated and my memories journaled. So future generations can understand me, and the things that made my life, mine.
There was a lady, who's MIL got sick, needed to go to assisted living, and her home needed to be sold, cleaned and sorted all in 6 weeks! The lady said that there was magazines dated from 1969 still there!! She was sad that a daughter-in-law was in charge of figuring what items were to keep and what to toss out. This motivated the DIL to clean and declutter her home, knowing that she didn't want anyone to have to go through what she was going through.
This inspired me to remember to declutter, and to keep things updated and my memories journaled. So future generations can understand me, and the things that made my life, mine.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Advice from the Queen
What is a surefire way to raise your spirits every time you enter your home?
Spruce up the outside front of your home or apartment - the part that everyone sees - including you! This is also a great way to jumpstart your decluttering projects. The quick results will encourage you to keep going with the areas which are more challenging.
Now you may already have a beautiful exterior on your home, and maybe the clutter is all inside. But let's examine this. One of the easiest ways to figure out how your own home should look on the outside i s to drive around your neighborhood and figure out what everyone else is doing wrong!
After a while, your eye starts to get better and better at seeing what looks good and what looks like crapperooni, and why! It's true - some homes look so wonderful, and others decidedly not - and it's not always easy at first glance to see what makes that critical difference. But I can tell you ONE thing - houses with a bunch of STUFF outside (instead of nice trees and plants) have a clutter problem. Sometimes it's STUFF that the people obviously love and think looks great. But it doesn't, does it?
So take a little drive or walk around, and criticize your neighbors (just kidding - keep it to yourself!) and you might come back with some GREAT ideas on how to improve the exterior of your home! It's okay if you steal a few great ideas from the neighbors who have beautiful homes!! But of course, you have to be sure that what looks good on their home will look good on yours! But the MOST important thing is to reduce the STUFF outside your home - less is almost always more in this case.
Spruce up the outside front of your home or apartment - the part that everyone sees - including you! This is also a great way to jumpstart your decluttering projects. The quick results will encourage you to keep going with the areas which are more challenging.
Now you may already have a beautiful exterior on your home, and maybe the clutter is all inside. But let's examine this. One of the easiest ways to figure out how your own home should look on the outside i s to drive around your neighborhood and figure out what everyone else is doing wrong!
After a while, your eye starts to get better and better at seeing what looks good and what looks like crapperooni, and why! It's true - some homes look so wonderful, and others decidedly not - and it's not always easy at first glance to see what makes that critical difference. But I can tell you ONE thing - houses with a bunch of STUFF outside (instead of nice trees and plants) have a clutter problem. Sometimes it's STUFF that the people obviously love and think looks great. But it doesn't, does it?
So take a little drive or walk around, and criticize your neighbors (just kidding - keep it to yourself!) and you might come back with some GREAT ideas on how to improve the exterior of your home! It's okay if you steal a few great ideas from the neighbors who have beautiful homes!! But of course, you have to be sure that what looks good on their home will look good on yours! But the MOST important thing is to reduce the STUFF outside your home - less is almost always more in this case.
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