Comments on: Hacking My Way Through a Year’s Detritus http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/ "it must give pleasure" -- Wallace Stevens Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Good News and Bad News « BlogLily http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-20354 Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:16:42 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-20354 [...] already told you what my children think I smell like and confessed how messy my office can get, and revealed that I sewed the world’s ugliest cheerleading costume in the 1970s, and [...]

]]> By: BlogLily » Detritus. Gone. http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-923 Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:09:43 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-923 [...] Here’s evidence. That’s my desk at the far end of the room. I have a chair to sit on now. You’ll notice there’s not a shopping bag in sight. (If you’d like to see how many shopping bags could fit in this room, go here.) The shopping bags are all neatly stowed, inside the largest of the bags, downstairs next to our refrigerator, to be used to take things OUT of our house. You’ll notice a second desk, on the right. That desk is not really under my control, belonging as it does to the other adult in this household. He’s pretty neat though, most of the time. [...]

]]> By: lovethereasontokeepliving http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-921 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:44:40 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-921 Thanks for showing me a more pleasing way to refer to my own bags of crap…um…I mean, detritus. I did by the way have to look that up. Thank you for that too. I am almost certain that there won’t be any treasures to find when I go through my bags at the end of this month. I am moving, and I refuse to take that bad habit with me. Blagh. I am actually starting a new bag of detritus as we speak. Smile.
Take care and I hope you are well. LOVE

]]> By: Sue Crocker http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-920 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:36:30 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-920 We have bulk pickup every two months. It’s a great opportunity to clear out old stuff. Some months I even get stuff out to the curb. That’s the goal for September. :)

]]> By: lucette http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-919 Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:16:13 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-919 I’m looking forward to the treasure. I regret to say that I am just this kind of clutterer, although I tend to have piles rather than bags. My office is a landscape of piles which I sometimes excavate. I’d like to say that despite the mess, I know where everything is, but I’m afraid it isn’t true.

]]> By: Ella http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-917 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:16:06 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-917 This is exactly what we’re going through with our move – not shopping bags, but cardboard boxes stuffed with crap we didn’t even know we had. It’s a great feeling to get that kind of stuff out of the way.

And I love the picture of your loft. What a nice sunny space.

]]> By: Danielle http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-915 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:01:23 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-915 This is sort of funny. Now I don’t feel so bad that I have had stacks of magazines and bins of fabric and other refuse laying around in my computer room for ages. Sometimes it makes me feel claustrophobic having so much stuff, but I haven’t done much about it. Please share an after photo–(and did you find any good books?). Maybe that will give me some inspiration, too…

]]> By: White Thoughts No One Sees » Blog Archive » Each in its place, redux http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-913 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:57:21 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-913 [...] Inspired by Charlotte who has been sorting her cd shelves, BlogLily who has tackled her office and an impeding visit from the in-laws, I decided this morning that the second bedroom desperately needs decluttering, organising and tidying. [...]

]]> By: qazse http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-912 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:52:50 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-912 As fencer said, thank you for “breaking the silence”.

I liked with Helen’s reference to “yo-yo de-cluttering”. If ones does it naked, it is called bi-polar.

Dorothy W’s assertion that “to file something is to declare it dead” applies well to the mundane. I wish it were true for all filing because I love the quote. However, at least for me, I must file into my working and reference files to have any hope of approximating efficiency and focus.

]]> By: Emily http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-911 Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:15:31 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-911 I’m a collector and a dumper, too. Unfortunately, I married someone who is only a collector (but then, I can just blame all the clutter on him and pretend the house would be completely empty if I lived alone. Any former roommates of mine who might read this, though, would know better). As always, glad to hear I’m not alone.

]]> By: eoinpurcell http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-909 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:35:53 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-909 I had that kind of issue too! But a solution of epic proportions is available!

1) Create a new folder called DMZ
2) Dump the old e-mails there
3) Start fresh and keep the inbox clear by filing everything as it comes in
4) Go back and bit by bit delete, file, resolve the others.

Sounds crazy but it is genius. I think its Merlin Mann at 43 folders who showed me the light as it were.
http://www.43folders.com/izero/

]]> By: bloglily http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-908 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:24:39 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-908 Litlove, You do have a point. Things abandoned in empty rooms are abandoned for a reason. Things shoved in shopping bags are a bit different — their storage in the bag is thought to be merely temporary and so their loss not even contemplated. Kate, you know, it has become a nice room finally — and now every person in my house wants to hang out there; so world war 2 is following me upstairs.
I have just discovered, as i’m sure you can tell helen, that I really like giving things away. It’s a wonderful discovery to have made and just in time for debagging the house.

Hey Eoin, I’m very impressed with your email achievement and cannot imagine how I’d get rid of the 2432 emails on my earthlink account.

]]> By: LK http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-907 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:17:06 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-907 I think I’m guilty of Accumulation in all forms — bags, stacks, boxes. I think I’ve even invented some new ways to hoard crap — like utilizing the tops of appliances and the underspaces of furniture. Some of the crap is fermenting, most of it is a fire hazard. I need to clean it all out before I entertain, or even before the cable guy comes to fix my TV — otherwise, it’s akin to getting into a car accident wearing skanky underwear!

For those with stacks of magazines, considering donating to a hospital. I usually sneak in a pile onto waiting room tables whenever I have a doctor’s appointment!

]]> By: eoinpurcell http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-906 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:06:10 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-906 I go through phases!

I am alternatively a piler/clutterer followed by a frenzied clean up/filer type. It’s quite strange. Eventually the balance tips and I change!

The one area of my life that is not cluttered is my e-mail. Up until a year ago this was not the case but once I reached inbox zero I was amazed at how much more effectively e-mail worked and how much smoother my life functioned. The return was instant.

Sadly, cluttered rooms make less impact though so the dust builds until I flip!
Eoin

]]> By: Helen http://bloglily.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-905 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:51:39 +0000 https://bloglily.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/hacking-my-way-through-a-years-detritus/#comment-905 My husband gave a pile of his old computer and car magazines to the children’s hospital near where we live. I hadn’t thought about doing that before, but when we went there we saw they had a whole library full of donated books and magazines. My old maggas might be going there.

I’m looking forward to hearing about your treasures too!

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