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Diminishing Returns

I'm sitting at home watching an episode of True Life on MTV. This episode is profiling two young women who are addicted to shopping. As an organizing expert, I find it fascinating. I witness these girls indulging their addiction to acquiring new clothing, wigs and accessories while ignoring higher financial priorities such as rent and utility bills, I can't help but think about the cycle of money for a compulsive shopper and how it's always a losing proposition.

Let's do a little math, shall we? (and you KNOW how I feel about math...)

Quote of the Week: Mastery of Thought

"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do."

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author of Think and Grow Rich

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My Science Experiment Finally Ends

August 20, 2008

During a walk through The Container Store, I happened upon this cute little blue gift bag that had an interesting feel in my hand. I learned from the store associate that it was called a "Treeless Tote", and was made without using any paper.

The interesting thing about this little bag is that it was touted as being "photodegradable", which means it's supposed to break down when it's exposed to sunlight. So (much to Christmas Boy's dismay) I hung it on a branch of my Chinese Holly Hedge by my front door, where I could see it daily and monitor its progress.

Not much happened for about ten months, and I wondered if it would ever actually break down. That was a photo of the bag on day one. This is my little bag today, fourteen months later...

Get Noticed!

Each day across the globe, 247 billion emails are sent. I know you only send a small portion of them, but shouldn't yours get noticed and be the highest priority in the stack? If you want your emails to be noticed and get a quick response, here are five things you can do to bump up your odds...

Hee hee hee...

I accidentally released this week's Quote of the Week without any text. Ha ha ha ha... I crack myself up. Let's just say it's my interpretation of minimalism. Less is more. You know, all that stuff...

As you were.

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Container Store Teams Up With Oprah

Oprah and The Container Store have teamed up to offer Oprah's viewers a 20% off coupon for anything in the store. Even the fabulous ELFA closet components! To take advantage of this great deal, just claim your discount coupon, print it out and bring it with you to your nearest Container Store location.  Here are a few of my favorite items from The Container Store...

A Simple Way To Tame T-Shirt Clutter

Six drum and bugle corps t-shirts. That's the extent of my sentimental t-shirt collection. What's yours? Concerts? College? Sports teams? It doesn't really matter where they came from, what matters is how many you have. If you have more than a handful and they're just packed away in a box someplace, consider preserving them in a little different way.

In my quest to find new resources for uncluttering, I just discovered this cool service that will take your old shirts and turn them into quilts! You can even send them your old sentimental baby clothes and they'll turn them into a quilt too!

Check out the quilt photos to see what the finished product looks like and maybe you'll be inspired to give yourself or someone else a special gift of t-shirts this year!

 

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Quote of the Week: Regret

"Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting."

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Collage-Like Search Engine Competes With Google

Wanna know what cyberspace is saying about you? It's easy to find out in just a few seconds at Spezify. Use quotes around your search term to narrow your results and check out the additional suggested terms in the black bar at the top of your results page if you want to narrow even further.

Spezify responds to your search terms and aggregates all kinds of media -- Twitter posts, images from Flickr, ads from Ebay, and many other sources into a collage-like results page.

Give it a try yourself and let me know how you feel about it in comparison to your current favorite search engine.

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