I’ve been spending a lot of time lately trying to organize our house and our lives – call it nesting, if you will. \u00a0After the renos it became really clear that although we have a clean house, it lacked real organization. \u00a0It’s easy when you have a spare room and a spare closet and a rarely used basement. \u00a0You can just toss things in and get to them later when you have more time.<\/p>\n
We’ve learned from experience that you never really have more time to attack the clutter and the junk. \u00a0You have to make time for it or it’ll just pile up. \u00a0And pile up. \u00a0And pile up.<\/p>\n
Well, it turns out the same thing can happen in your inbox and with the hundreds of photos I take every month. \u00a0I have over 2000 emails in my inbox. \u00a0127 of them unread. \u00a0Most of those \u00a0have either been read on my Blackberry or are junk mail that I failed to delete at the time. And that’s my personal email account. \u00a0My work account has 157 emails in the inbox (thankfully none are unread). \u00a0My facebook inbox has 20 unread (though read) messages and countless in there just waiting to be deleted. \u00a0It’s pathetic. \u00a0It would make my sister’s skin crawl if she knew.<\/p>\n
And the photos…Well, they get filed properly but to take the time to actually sort the good from the bad, the useful from the useless – it doesn’t happen. \u00a0 And it needs to. \u00a0Seriously.<\/p>\n
So along with trying to organize my real life, I’m trying to take some time to do the same with my computer. \u00a0It’s not easy, but I get annoyed watching the numbers creep up and I figure if I don’t do it now, I never will. And just like when you clean out your closet and get rid of a pile of unnecessary ‘stuff’, and feel 1000lbs lighter, I imagine a clean inbox will make me feel the same way. \u00a0If so, I’m in.<\/p>\n
Tell me I’m not the only one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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