- Now, what is the best way to deal
with a digital clutter?
This is a clutter
that is coming in constantly and we need to learn
how to keep it under control.
Alright, lovelies.
Grab your tea and let's go.
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So why do you think it goes without saying
that we are probably at the highest point in history
for clutter.
So many of us have just had increasingly increasingly
more things and it really started just after the recovery
from the depression started.
We have consumed and collected more and more things,
more and more stuff.
And the past few decades have actually seen a real boom
in digital clutter.
Now, digital clutter is affecting us far
far more than you might even realize.
So I am going to show you how I keep all
of my digital content organized and decluttered.
So ever since we started having cell phones and computers
and just really keeping things on us
all the time, digital things.
We have just consumed more and more things.
One of those things are emails.
So we can open our phone and we can quickly realize
that in like a week, we have like 300 plus emails.
It is complicated though
because some of them we need to keep
and some of them, we don't.
We can often find ourselves on many mailing lists.
That doesn't mean that the mailing list are bad.
Some of them are serving us
like giving us great tips and helpful advice,
but a lot of them are just trying to sell to us
every single day.
I am going to dive in and show you how I keep on top
of my emails, because it is time that I go through them.
So first start looking at your regular emails
that you have coming in.
Now, I myself have a mailing list
but I try to give people good information,
like motivating, decluttering advice,
letting people know when there's a new video
that might be serving them.
But, you know what?
If that's not serving you unsubscribe.
So recognize when a mailing list is not serving you.
So I can look right now.
Anytime you order from a company?
You're going to be put on their mailing list.
And I'm going to give you a tip.
So instead of deleting all of your emails at once,
I want you to just go over to the search bar
and just put in like Roots.
The company I'm wearing. Obviously, I like roots.
So look at all of these Roots things
have come up and I can just go highlight,
shift, click.
I can delete all of these, so boom.
I can declutter delete them all.
I should have unsubscribed first, because I know that
like with Roots, I want to know when their stuff's on sale
because the odd time I will buy something.
So I think that's what has kept me subscribed to them.
But, so that's just one thing.
Like if it's something you actually really
really want to know,
but for the most part,
if you know a sale will probably be coming up, it will be.
So I can actually unsubscribe myself from Roots
like, no problem.
Another thing you can do is organize things by files.
This here is some files that I've made.
So if I have an email, for example, for Catnap,
I can drag it in there.
And there was an update that unfortunately it resulted
in everything getting deleted, which you know,
it's not the biggest deal
but when we have foster kittens,
now I need to bother the people
and get the proper forms again, which is kind of annoying.
But that's okay because I'm actually going to show you.
I do have it somewhere else.
But when I get like school report cards for the kids.
I can just take them and drag them into the family section.
So that is one great way to organize your emails.
So in no time, you can get your emails down to nothing.
So look at your list and you can see maybe where
some of the mailing lists are popping up
that you're seeing regularly.
And if they're not serving you?
You can just declutter them.
Like I have one here for Canadian Tire
and it is wanting us to review
some of the things that we bought.
I don't, I don't want that.
So, like I can just unsubscribe.
I am unsubscribing,
boom.
With your computer, a great way to keep things organized
is to use both Dropbox
and
G Google drive.
These are both free.
And the great thing about Google drive,
it's a great place to store documents
that you are writing right in there,
or sheets, anything like that.
Such a great way to organize things and I'll show you that.
And then the other thing is I love, love, love Dropbox.
Dropbox is a great place to store and organize
things like photos or things that you've made
or school report cards, anything like that.
So I really, really, really recommend using those
for organizing things in the best possible way
without having things scattered all over the place.
Now, another thing that we can get a lot of
is apps on our phone and believe me,
I'm going to be getting tuned to a lot more in a second.
But apps on our phone, we can actually be like, oh my gosh
do I really still use Angry Birds?
No, it is not 2011 here.
We can download things, whether it's
for our kids or for ourselves, and just realize over time
we're not using those apps.
And they can be taking up storage on our phone
but also taking like the mental space.
Like seeing these things can bother us.
The digital clutter overall can be really
really affecting us.
And we might not even realize it.
It is just sort of the stress of having too many options.
Too many options is stressful.
It makes it hard to find things.
It makes it just stressful overall.
And you just feel like this is some thing I need to do.
So we need to take care of this.
So let's take care of the apps right now.
Now, if I swipe through my phone, you can see
I do have a little bit of tidying to do.
But, what I need to do is to remove apps
of things that I'm not using.
Now, this is something you should do from time to time
hold it down on an iPhone.
And then it'll come up, remove app, delete app, delete.
Here's another one.
Don't need that one.
Remove app, delete.
There's a bunch more, I don't use here
but I can go through those later.
And for example,
I have different sections here, entertainment.
I have section on entertainment.
So I've got like Netflix, internet movie database
because whenever I'm watching a movie, I'm like
I know that voice.
So I have to look it up and I'm like,
oh my gosh, I knew it was Christians Slater, right?
And I just keep going through it.
And yeah.
So I've got that there.
In fact, I could even remove one of it from there.
I have a section for travel.
So like, I want to go to Ireland.
I haven't been, but I'm going to go, one day.
So I have those in there.
I have like Disneyland stuff.
WestJet, the airline, all of that.
Like, even stuff to go to London, God bless me.
Okay.
So that is one thing like work.
For kids, like kids are different than adults.
So I have like this one called Pedi STAT, which I have.
So we can look up things by weight,
important things like that.
So that is how I organize things there.
I also have one for fitness.
So I have like my Yoga app in there.
I love this Down Dog app.
There's one for the Calm Meditation app
which is really great in the fitness thing.
So that is how I organize my apps.
I have one for finance, one for YouTube, one for shopping,
one for utilities.
So if I go over to utilities, I've got like
the Tile, because my husband loses things all the time.
So we each have Tiles on our keys.
Dropbox, calendars, all of that.
Now, before I get into computer files and photos
and believe me, photos are a huge, huge things.
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Now, let's get into
photos.
Now, photos, digital photos on our phone
and computer can be
so, so plentiful.
We can have thousands, tens of thousands of photos.
I remember back when I was in nursing school
and the teacher would put something up on the board
and all of the young ones were like writing everything down.
I say young ones cause I started school,
nursing school when I was 30.
They were all writing everything down.
And I was like, I'm just going to take a picture with my phone.
Everybody does that.
Now, and so,
we have so many things on our phone
that we don't need to keep.
It's still a super, super handy tool though to be able
to take photos of notes, any like receipts.
Sometimes I'll just take a picture of a receipt
because then I can shred the receipt
and then I'll have that for later
but you have to be able to organize it
and you have to have a system for getting rid of those.
So, I like to, with my photos,
every Friday at four o'clock, I have a date with myself
and that is to spend 10 minutes decluttering my photos.
So I will just sit there, put on something on YouTube
and just be like tapping away
and just declutter as many photos as I can in 10 minutes.
So when I am looking through my photos on a Friday,
I'm like, okay, I don't need a picture of that.
I don't need, you know, I took pictures of the pancakes,
don't need that.
Don't need that.
You know, so just like tap on things
and then you just go, boom.
It is so helpful when you need to look up a medical card
and you do not have that information there.
You can just click on it.
I have a few other things in there which is so helpful.
So I don't have to go and like track down my purse
or if I'm not at home, it makes it so much easier to like
register the kids for things or whatever.
I also have one for recipes.
So if I click on that, I,
you may have seen the recipe video I did not long ago
where I was decluttering paper and some books and things.
And I took pictures of recipes
because we get HelloFresh sometimes.
And I took pictures of some recipes
because I did not want to keep the cards
but I knew I might want to keep some of the recipes.
So I took pictures of those,
a couple of cookbooks I got rid of.
So I took pictures of those recipes.
And another one, this one I love.
This is one Taco Salad.
I got it from my grandma five years ago,
and I was like, grandma, I want that Taco Salad recipe.
So she go it out and what's great is
I was able to take the picture, and now I have it in there.
So I can do this with lots of things.
I also have one for the Nuts and Bolts
that I was talking about at Christmas.
So that is how I keep those organized.
And that is how I also delete my photos.
The other thing I do is I organize a lot of photos in files.
So for example,
I have a picture of all of our family's healthcare cards
and I have that saved in something called cards.
I also have one for recipes, and I have one for receipts.
So, this is a really really easy way
to keep track of those things.
And yes, you do still have them in there
but you could do something else.
And I am going to tell you about that right now
because it is how I organize my computer files.
So this is how easy I have my computer set up for things.
This is the budget.
This is where any bills go, any stuff for the bank,
I just put it right there.
An organization I volunteer for.
So I have that all organized, just past stuff.
This is where family things like kids report cards.
I put them in there, easy peasy.
I download whatever I can.
I scan the rest.
I don't like to keep much paperwork.
Stuff for the house right here.
Fitness thing I'm part of.
Family movies.
Taxes is always important.
And then work and resumes.
It's really that simple.
Now digital clutter is one thing
but there's one other thing that can really get us down.
And that is the hassle of social media
and the pressure and the constant negativity
and things burdening us.
So click this video here
so you can see all about how to tackle that monster.
Thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time.
Bye.
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