Posts Tagged ‘storage’

50 Ways to Make Your Home More Organized, More Attractive, and More Efficient

The modern home is far bigger than the home of just 30 years ago – and far more cluttered! How can that happen? Basically, our demand for stuff is outstripping our ability to buy space – no wonder self-storage is one of the leading growth industries in the United States. Questions about runaway consumerism aside, what all this excess stuff means for most of us is more time spent maintaining… Continue reading

September 8 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: cleaning, clutter, home, organization, paperwork, storage | 21 comments»

My Redundant Productivity System

Backing up your data is an essential part of digital life and protects you from losing important information. But when something goes wrong with one of your systems, it can mean you have to sift through thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of files for each project you’re involved with. Over the last few months, I set up a redundant productivity system. While I ensure that my data is backed up… Continue reading

March 3 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: backup, redundancy, storage, workflow | 6 comments»

Storage Ideas For Small Spaces

Living in an apartment or small room, space is important and keeping things organized while pleasing to the eye can make a big difference - particularly if you're working from home. Here are around 20 simple ideas that could take your storage from drab to fab or just to something clear and organized. 19 Ideas to Steal for Your Apartment - [MSN]… Continue reading

September 25 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: organization, storage | no comments»

Instructables: Paper Wallet

In our efforts to suggest ways to slim your wallet, we covered several options. A new one that has popped up on the DIY site, Instructables, is this paper wallet. What could be slimmer than paper? Paper Wallet - [Instructables]… Continue reading

April 24 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: Money, storage | 3 comments»

Don’t Just Get Organized, Stay Organized! 7 Concepts That Stick

As Professional Organizers, we don’t just get clients organized, we also teach them how to stay organized. Here are some empowering home organizing concepts that we teach people every day. Be decisive! Everything that is on your countertop or desk right now most likely represents decisions that have not been made. Clutter results from putting off these decisions for later. Your ability to get and stay organized is… Continue reading

March 13 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: clutter, decision-making, organization, planning, storage | 2 comments»

Ask Readers: Backup Strategies & Methods

I'm just getting ready to do some backups of my system, and I was going to do a pile of DVDs as my backups, but then I realized just how much time that would take. Booooooring. So now I'm thinking that I'll just go buy an external hard drive, shove everything over, and store it somewhere else. And then it dawned on me: I know LOTS of people who stick… Continue reading

July 11 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: backup, bestpractices, data, howto, Lifehack, storage, tips | 26 comments»

Extend the Life of Your CDs and DVDs

The Council of Library and Information Resources knows you want to keep your DVDs alive for a long time, while Sony and others hash out the Blu-Ray and HD-DVD issue. To that end, here's a guide for the proper care and feeding of your collection. Archivists and librarians place great emphasis on preserving content for the long term while ensuring its everyday usability. One of their major challenges is to ensure… Continue reading

May 29 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: archiving, care, cd, dvd, Lifehack, storage | no comments»