MORE EMAILS

I realized yesterday, after I posted that it was not 9932 emails in the deleted items folder but 9932 UNREAD emails. So it must have been quite a few more. The annoying part was that twice emails that I had deleted downloaded again. fortunatley only a little more than 1000. Sigh. Yes. ONE. THOUSAND. MY desire to declutter the whole house has vapoized. Might have to do witht hte fact that I was busy with laundry all day and that the hosue is cleaner than it has been in a long time thank to my housefairy Heather stopping by to use the potty. She has a key to my house and before Christmas she wanted to escape a visitor and help me get ready for my trip. as I left sonner than she thought we joked around that she could come and let ehrself in and clean. Well. Guess what. She did. She was onthe way home and really needed to go so instead of a rest stop sheswung by my house and decided as she was here already to vacuum, mop the floor and clean a bathroom. She had her kids with her and put them to work in the kitchen and the girls's room. She said they all agreed it wasn't bad at alland that I should stop complaining. Well. They did stay out of my hoarded room (didn'T know what to do with it hahahaha) and it was awesome to come home to a sparkling house. She is the only one that can actually get away with that!

Today, drum roll please, I went through the Christmas decoration, picked out a few rather sentimetal items that the kids made at school, took a picture and asked the makers what to do with them. We threw out 4 and kept 2. Totally unheard of just a year ago. I am a hero. 

7 a day: 7 Christmas decoration, 2 torn items of clothing.

surface of the day: sideboard in the livign room, nativity put away, dusted and redcorated with original items

10.000 EMAILS LATER

Okay. So it wasn't exactly 10.000 emails. Only 9932. I totally forgot that I had set my account to "save all as long as there is room"(I download on a daily basis).I almost died when I saw the number of emails in my inbox going past 1000 after setting my computer back up the other day. Of course I was able to delete in bulk, but sometime in the middle I realized that I had deleted all the email addresses, too. I was tempted to look trough all those emails to save them but then I decided to be be smart and to just DELETE them all and if I happened to come across one I needed I would copy it. So. I ended up with 9932 emails my "trash" folder. 

The good news is that I got rid of 2 folders of "importet files" storing the files I wanted to keep in the proper spots and by deleting an armload of old files nobody needs any more. 

Tomorrow I will be back home and I finally get to start my end of the year CLEAR OUT!

VIRTUAL DECLUTTER

Just because you don't see all that data clutter doesn't mean it is not there. As I am visiting family for the Holidays, I can't really declutter. So I decided to sit down with my laptop and really sort it out. As my husband James and his brother in law swiped it clean and set it back up, this is the perfect time to start. My files are all there, but they are in "imported data folders" so it is time to look through them all and come up with a storing system theat helps me find things without the search function! More important even, to get rid of all the old files nobody needs anymore! Lets see how much MB I can get rid of!

QUIET DAYS

As expected Christmas didn't leave much room for decluttering. But let's face it. Everybody needs a break now and then and Christmas is a wonderful reason.

I did some virtual decluttering. I cleared my hard drive and started sorting pictures that were downloaded multiple times in various places. Plenty to do still but the main job (to copy them all into the same folder) is finally acomplished. The problem that caused them to be downloaded into differened folders is solved now, too. Unfortunately a lot of them still might be there now 2, 3 or even 4 times. Maybe that canbe a task for tonight. Get rid of doubles. Hope you enjoyed the holidays!