We live out so much of our modern lives on personal computers and web servers—yet so much of it is messy and over-stuffed. Clean up your email, fix your files, and tidy up your digital life with these 10 tips. More »
If your community has curbside or drop-off recycling, it's easy to recycle things like newspapers and empty bottles. What about the stuff your friendly recycling crew doesn't pick up? Find out where to recycle everything from Crocs to printer cartridges. More »
If your Google Reader inbox has grown out of control, and you're spending more time trying to keep up with the flood of news than reading about things you care about, it's time for a little Google Reader spring cleaning. Newsreaders like Google Reader are meant to help us read more content without constantly refreshing a list of bookmarks, in theory saving all kinds of time. If your Reader addict...
Clearly, we love clean workspaces here at Lifehacker, and we've featured many ways to hack cable management solutions together. For those of you less DIY-oriented, you can get buy pre-made solutions from IKEA—just as cheaply as you could make them. More »
If you haven't fought a battle with desktop clutter and mess, you're either without a desk, or in a pleasant minority. The rest of us can keep clutter from accumulating by banishing the transient junk from our workspaces. More »
Reader Charles Kim has tried every cord - wrapping technique under the sun , but ultimately found that a vinyl badge clip to be the best tool for keeping his headphones tangle-free and on-hand when he needs them. There's actually nothing to it, once you've got a badge clip . Just fold your headphone cord, snap the badge around it, and clip it to whatever you want (Charles suggests, backpack...
Based on what I have seen in the past , there probably isn't much hope for the major slobs among you, but for the rest of us, the Space Bar might help free up some desktop space.
The Space Bar is basically an aluminum platform with six USB ports that you can use to stow a keyboard, elevate your monitor and the like. In fact, the concept is so simple, I'm still debating whether or not it wo...
Let's face it, whoever said technology was going to make our life any easier was lying! From where I stand, I see we are busier than ever trying to keep up-to-date with our email inbox, our twitter pages, our Facebook accounts, our offline friends and least not forget our family. Quite frankly, our minds are cluttered beyond recognition. It comes as no surprise that so many people snap at the dro...
Weekends are a combination of playing catch up from things not accomplished in the previous 5 days, interjected with bits of free time and family obligations. Unclutter one thing a day to leave your weekends wide open for anything you please. Photo by Mr. Toaster Money-wise weblog The Simple Dollar shares a few specifics from the book Unclutter Your Life in One Week , which suggests ste...
Today: Eleven myths of de-cluttering. One of my great realizations about happiness (and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists) is that outer order contributes to inner calm . But as much as most of us want to keep our home, office, car, etc. in reasonable order, it’s tough. Here’s a list of some myths of de-cluttering that make it harder to get rid of stuff. Myths of Clutt...
When we taught you the first Google Wave search you should know ( with:public ), Wave automatically added public waves you read to your inbox, and an empty inbox quickly became hard to come by. Today, Wave fixes that with a handy Follow/Unfollow button. Now, rather than automatically adding a public wave to your inbox as soon as you look at it, you have to explicitly choose to follow public wa...
Windows only: Point tiny open-source application Folder Vanity Remover at a folder filled with empty directories, and it'll check for and remove any empty folders. Cleanliness and something about godliness, right? There's nothing more to this app. It's tiny and does this one, simple thing. There's no fancy options, but if all you want is to quickly and easily clean out your file structure, it ca...
Design and food weblog Hello Kitchen's kitchen-decluttering checklist provides a quick, easy guide to tackling the large chore of cleaning and decluttering your kitchen—helping you purge what you don't need and keep around your must-haves. It's easy to tell when you need to purge a few items from your kitchen—the overflowing drawers will tip you off to that. What's harder is know...
Windows only: Remember Fences, the awesome desktop icon organizer we highlighted back in February? Fences just left beta and rolled out its 1.0 release, and it continues to keep your cluttered desktop icons in attractive, minimal, organized groups. The video above should give you a pretty good idea of what Fences does and how it might come in handy on your PC, but if you want to get a closer l...
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I’m working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too ! Everyone’s project will look different, but it’s the rare person who can’t benefit. Join in -- no need to catch up, just jump in right now. One of my favorite things to do is to help my friends clear their clutter. It’s less emotionally taxing than clearing my own clutter, plus I don’t have any delicious, horrible piles left t...