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Snow day may be a good day to do some organizing

If you've already failed a New Year's Resolution to "get organized", maybe continue the new year with small steps in one-day projects, then you can celebrate successes all through 2019. Some choices and suggestions follow:


Clean up your computer. Start with photos. You probably have a lot of them from the last year and this is a great way to reminisce while usefully deleting the junk. You can rename photos to make them searchable. If you are feeling organized, make some coherent groups for them.

Programs and downloads are next. Chances are last year you added a dozen or so junk apps and downloaded the same pdf three times. Clean out those downloads and programs. Uninstall properly.

Email. You have a ton of stuff you will never look at.

Old computers. Shouldn't you do something with them besides just storing them? Remove the hard drive first and then recycle.

Get organized

On a lot of people's resolution list, getting organized can streamline your life. Maybe instead of saying you'll organize everything, you could pick a project you can do in one day.

The closet, and all those clothes that don't fit. If you do lose weight, you won't want to wear them anyway.

File cabinets and all those files you can't find.

Buy a labeler and simplify.

Kitchen, seriously how many crockpots and coffee cups do you need?

Garage, can you ever find a tool?

Ruthlessly winnow down possessions: Throw away, recycle, donate.

Donate blood. There is a month for that and it's January. Go to redcross.org/blood for information.


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