Organize Thyself
July 15, 2005
Life Organizers provides you area-specific strategies for organizing your life (office, family, home, time, etc.). I particularly enjoyed the general closet tips, especially sock organization (socks, tights, hose, argh!)
link via Sites and Soundbytes
July 20th, 2005 at 9:03 am
Useful site, thank you. But I’m rather appalled by the concept of someone who refers to him/herself as having a “tendency to gather books” — but then goes on to say (s)he had “well over 200 and definitely had to get rid of some of them.” How well over 200? I’ll tell you, my first reaction was, oh, you poor thing, it must be wretched having so little space you need to start weeding a collection that’s already so small!
Tanuki, whose collection of pop-ups alone is over 350 at last count (and that was four years ago)
July 21st, 2005 at 6:06 pm
Jeebers! 350 pop-ups? I am so jealous! The poor little LiB has twenty-something, and is rather proud of that. But yes, I do agree that an in-house selection of only 200 books is nothing to worry about. When you get over 1000 is the time to start thinking about donating them to your local library.
July 22nd, 2005 at 9:04 am
Ahem. Beg to differ. You start thinking about donating books (or otherwise disposing of them) when the bookshelves are filled to capacity and you start tripping over the piles and boxes of books in the one path left between the other piles and boxes of books …
[sigh] Hello. My [nick]name is Tanuki, and I’m a biblioholic … I really, REALLY need to sever my connections with Amazon.com!
As for your pop-up collection — mine’s been building up for almost twenty years. If you’re as young as I think you are, you’ve got plenty of time to surpass me by the time your hair’s as grey as mine! And then there’s my 19th century travel book collection (about a hundred vols.) and my research collections on the Victorian period (several hundred and growing), the occult (a hundred-odd), and magic of the prestidigitation kind (perhaps fifty?) … [whimper]
–Tanuki
July 24th, 2005 at 4:39 pm
tips and tools for everyday life
Because it’s not too late, How To Have A Productive Summer. (From To Done.)
How to learn from your mistakes, from Lifehacker.
Organize Thyself, found through LibrarianInBlack. “Life Organizers provides you area-specific strategies for …