A quick walk around my house and it is pretty easy to figure out where the clutter accumulates. Problem areas include my desk, the kitchen counter, and a landing strip that borders our kitchen and dining area. The clutter seems to collect like dust and it seems to an unwinnable war.
Take a stroll around your home and identify your perpetually cluttered zones.
Calling cards are basically personal business cards. Brett and Kate have written a nice introduction to calling cards. Time magazine also wrote a short piece talking about how they are coming back. Evidently the Marines art still using calling/visiting cards today.
Written on 9/08/2008 by Monika Mundell. Monika has extensive experience in Sales and Marketing and is now an established freelance writer and pro-blogger who is full of passion for all things Internet related. You can catch her at The Writer's Manifesto or MonikaMundell.com.Photo Credit: Kevin LawlerHave you ever felt tense like a wound up toy?
Life is full of contradictions. People say they want health food, but McDonalds still makes billions of dollars each year. People say they want to work satisfying jobs, but end up chasing after the biggest paycheck. People say they want news on world affairs, but tune into 24/7 coverage of Anna Nicole Smith.
I want to tell you about a course I'm helping to teach at NYU and about my plan to turn a NYC parking space into a park, but first, according to the BBC:
"People should consider eating less meat as a way of combating global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist.
"Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
These days the idea of a design team is usually wide open to location. Your creative director could be in LA while the designers work in New York, and the client lives in Texas. To keep in sync and get all the work done on time, I’ve found that I can’t work without certain tools.
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.” - Henry David Thoreau
If you’re trying to simplify your life, it’s best to follow the four simple steps I’ve outlined before — it’s just the simplest method.
Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book.
I picked this one up at the library because of the title - The Complete Cheapskate sounded right up my alley. I flipped through it, quickly found a long list of frugality tips, and took it home, expecting it to be a compendium of money-saving ideas.
August 2007 wrap upA moment to remember what made August 2007 a great month at Unclutterer.
Single hook bike solutionThe Leonardo Single Bike Hook is, well, a single hook that eschews unsightly hardware but gets the job done nonetheless.
Unitasker Wednesday: Panda poo souvenirsYou (don’t) need the panda poo souvenir to profess your love of pandas!
After six years of dating followed by five years of marriage, my wife and I finally decided to merge our finances together into the same accounts. We’re going to use a local bank for teller purposes and paper checks, and stay with ING Direct for much of our checking and savings purposes.
