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Drowning in Clutter? (Don’t Grab a Floatie . . . Drain the Ocean!) – my e-book! UPDATE: This e-book is now retired. For detailed guides, check out my books: How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind and Decluttering at the Speed of Life.
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That cotton that comes out of the pill bottles… I might be able to use that…
yes, totally worth paying to have someone transfer vhs to dvd. i did it at a video place in town but i have heard costco and sams and maybe target? does it. $15/ ea or $20/ ea i think at costco. i did some of my grandparents and our wedding video.
Thank you for the input! I just saw it in the Costco book for this month!
This is brilliant. You are brilliant, and I am so glad I found your site. I totally suffer from Head Explosion syndrome. I am almost threw up the other day trying to decide whether to keep a pair of stained pants that hardly fit…but they are good for cleaning and their lightweight for summer..but I’m trying to declutter and they’re stained…but I’ll ruin other pants if I use those for cleaning…but all you do is clean and nothing is ever clean because of all that clutter: i.e. Head Explosion.
Now I have a new problem. Trying to decide whether or not to obey your Head Explosion rule is making my Head Explode. 🙂
You mentioned your favorite shirt getting a hole on the front at the waist- that happens to me too! I noticed that the holes are right where the edge of the seatbelt rubs my shirt whenever I turn my waist. I think thats what causes it. I dont get those holes anymore now that I am home almost everyday, but I got them alot (and my sisters too) when I was driving to work everyday.
Hmmmm. I decided it was a certain belt, but I bet you’re right that it was probably a combo of the belt and the seatbelt!
Hey Dana, this had me rolling last night, after just having listened to this episode. What stuck out to me the most was how you described me exactly in the part about in depth analyzing what’s the very best thing to do with stuff, versus people like your friend, who, if they aren’t sure, default to throwing it away. (Let me just say that I grew up reading my mom’s copy of Tightwad Gazette…very cool about wanting to save money, but as far as minimalist? Not so helpful!) Last night I was having my husband tell me how to clear/delete stuff on my computer, but I couldn’t tell what some things were, so I was going to open every bazillionth document/download etc, and find out, because I might want it!! Tim said with a barely perceptible smirk on his face, “If you don’t even know what it is, I would just delete it.” I looked aghast at him but then recalled the podcast I’d listened to earlier, and thought, wow, we just duplicated the podcast! Thanks for making me smile and laugh aloud each and every podcast (which my kids think is odd as I have almost invisible earbuds in).
I like Amy’s comment above. 😊 My husband transferred all our movies – tapes, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, 3D movies, home videos – everything – onto our own server. He needed something like 13 hard drives. We love finding movies via a menu with our universal remote. It is very time consuming to set it up, but I’m glad he did it. He can walk away while “ripping” a DVD. Don’t know if you have to babysit VHS tapes.
We currently – temporarily- have the movies in a storage unit. Because you have to keep your legal copy.
Two further comments. VHS tapes are noticably lower in quality, and the captioning – I’m deaf – is worse.
Also, if you go that route, you may occasionally have to redo a video because the file got corrupted.
I think my husband uses Amazon’s cloud storage for backup. (Another random comment.)