Easy to be a consumer and the electronic clutter war continues

So I'm sitting with my son last night talking about a book I used to own that I lost in a flood- "The Guitar Handbook".

Really a good book if you want to learn to apply theory to your guitar playing plus a lot of other cool stuff.    I googled it and sure enough there it was on Amazon... Avoided the "People who bought this also looked at (or purchased) this..." at the bottom... but with all my shipping and payment info already in, 1 minute later Amazon is speeding it on its way to me.

Too easy...   maybe to celebrate I'll get rid of a few others on the bookshelf...

So now I'll get more Amazon suggestions in my email...  Seems like you can;t do ANYTHING without registering and getting a piece of e-trash. 
 
I've really learned to use that "unsubscribe" link this week hidden in the fine print at the bottom of those emails...  If I haven;t bought from them in 6 months or intend to in the next 6, bye bye!

 Later.

Blame it on your parents.

If they had only bought me the Atari before the price went down...

 

How my hippie parents turned me into a consumer

Mom swore by composting and hand-sewed clothes, but I longed for the comforts of Kraft singles and brand-name shoes

http://www.salon.com/life/real_families/index.html?story=/mwt/feature/2011/01/19/hippie_mom_daughter_confesses

Nothing like a few days off

Took a long weekend.  Got a pasture fenced, part of a goat shelter built, a few more square feet regained in the 5 pound sack known as my garage and something like 300 emails accumulated while I had my back turned.

So what does this say... hmm if I didn't even bother reading them why do I bother getting them- obviously life went on just fine.

The electronic clutter is a real mousetrap.  When I was out of work I spent about 9 months without a cell phone.  Mildly inconvenient but not a death sentence.  Okay, it sucks when you break down and have to hoof it to a store or something to borrow a phone... Didn't take long for the constant twitch to come back every time the alert goes off that something new came in.


After work hours- it is getting set to phone calls only. 

Cleaning house for the information junkie

New year, time to eliminate the clutter.  Some of it is mental, some physical, some electronic.

First mountain to tackle:

My email account has 4682 emails sitting in it.  3247 are "unread"...  And I check the darn thing constantly. 


I belong to like 75 Yahoo groups, mostly on digest....  

If I actually read all this info hours out of my day would be shot (good thing I'm a natural "speed reader")