Yeah still struggling. I like this month's habit of ditching the paper clutter. good incentive to get my books together and inventory them and get rid of them. Yup ya read right. the inventory list is so I can replace them with ebooks. Ya see most all of us have a computer. I am blessed I have an iPad (on which I have the nook, kindle and ibook apps) and a Nookcolor. My daughter has a Kindle. A large number of books out there also come in an ebook format somewhere. A large portion of magazines and newspapers also are available for the eReader. Some of those that do not are online and you can get updates in your email box. Those pictures you like to clip? You can right click on many of those same pictures on the internet and save the picture. Catalogs? Get em in your email box. Yeah this clutters your email box a bit but if you set up a few message rules they can be autosorted into appropriate folders so you can go look (and discard) when you are ready and they don't hide the stuff in your inbox that you want to see. You know this also works for your bills too right? I have a only a few bills and almost all of them are online. Electric? Yup. Cable/Internet? Yup. Mortgage? Yup.
What can you virtualize? Just a word of caution. when you sign up for services and don't want more email than what you have requested make sure that you check (or uncheck as the case may be) the box about sharing your info with 3rd party advertisers and such. Also Check your email daily to keep the virtual clutter down. Read what ya want and file it where it goes be it file 13 or a designated folder for those items. An empty inbox is always a nice thing to see when the day is done.
BLB
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