ICE (In Case of Emergency)
If you haven’t done it already, here’s a 5-minute tip that may save your life: add ICE to your cellphone. ICE means In Case of Emergency. It’s a way to label your emergency contacts so … Continue reading
Category Archives: Electronics
from high tech to low tech recycling
Photos and mountains of them!
It is unbelievable how much technology has changed the way we photograph. Smartphones and digital cameras make it easy for people to take huge numbers of photos, but instead of getting prints, we can store … Continue reading
Recycling cassettes and CDs
Technology changes so fast that I’ve saved documents to hard disks, CDs, thumb drives and now the Cloud. Who knows what’ll be next by the time this blog goes live! It is fantastic that … Continue reading
What about kitchen gadgets?
William Grimes wrote in the New York Times about an overabundance of kitchen gadgets. The article is full of great quotes from food professionals, who admit to being guilty of owning kitchen gadgets that … Continue reading
Not a Good-Bye to CDs Forever
NPR produced an interesting piece on a Wisconsin-based company, Murfie, that stores clients’ actual CDs in its headquarters for a small fee. Clients get digital access to all of their music and retain ownership of … Continue reading
Recycling Electronics
When I work with clients, I do whatever I can keep their “items to toss” out items out of landfill. I prefer going green, especially when it’s easy to do and does not create extra … Continue reading
Repairing vs. upgrading
Five years ago, I moved into a carpeted apartment and found that the previous tenant had left her vacuum behind. I thought that it was brilliant of her to leave it, as I didn’t own … Continue reading
Home office space, before and after
Project: Abby works from home. When she was very busy papers and miscellaneous items would overwhelm her filing system and pile up all over her desk and printer. Abby and I examined piles of … Continue reading
Turning Unused Cell Phones to Good Use Again
I recently helped Melissa* go through her office space and discovered that she had four old cell phones she no longer used after upgrading a few times. She had forgotten she still had them and … Continue reading
Discovering my town’s Recycle Center
Like most people, I make a habit of recycling plastics (the ones that have numbers 1-7 in a triangle on the bottom) and papers whenever I can. My city’s recycling truck doesn’t pick up some … Continue reading