A real time saver is to be able to access information quickly and easily. Unfortunately, with information overload that many of us experience, we might be tempted to "save" a document for future reading. Before you know it, you have hundreds of "must read" documents that we easily download for a later read.

About once a month, go through your "must read" computer docs and delete those that you no longer find interest in. Amazingly, many that you thought were oh so important are no longer that big a deal.

Kathleen Gage

SOOOOO very true. A great tip, thanks Kathy! Oh, and the same thing with photographs.

Now if only I could convince my mother of the photograph idea. Since I was a young girl I would hear her talk about "someday" I will have to organize those pictures.

It's amazing how many people live in the someday place with just about anything. Someday I will take that trip, someday I will eat healthy, someday I will change jobs, someday I will write that book.

The fact is, someday is today. If we constantly talk about someday we will..... it is a huge energy zapper.

Wow! were those pictures ever a trigger. :-)

I'm horrible at hoarding magazine articles, magazines, newspaper articles, computer files, pictures, you name it.

I do go through the computer files once in a while and trim them down.

With the magazine articles and newspaper articles, I file them in large binders. I call them my idea books. This way if I ever have an inclination to write about a particular topic, I already have sources available.

As for the pictures. I'm just lost. One thing that my husband did for me was set me up with a photo gallery on my web server. This way I can upload all the photos I want from my digital camera and store them in folders and file them with key words for searches later. That's made it so much easier. Now I just need to get a handle on the rest of my photos lying around the house.

Do you all still order pictures from your digital photos?

There is nothing like sitting on the couch and leafing through a beautiful photo album. It's different then sitting at your computer, clicking away on all the pictures, don't you think?

This Christmas I ordered a photo album, for my hubby, online. You can arrange the pictures and the size of each picture for each page. You can type in the captions and select how the album should be bound. I chose wine red leather. It came to 85 pages! And the entire thing cost only $28.00. I ordered it over a German site, but they must have that in English too. It was so much fun to do, and it came out beautifully.

Hannelore, I've seen that type of thing via Macintosh Apple iPhoto. That is a vey nice gift. And the price seems so reasonable. Every time I visit my parents, which is not too often, I organize their pics for them. The best part is that I get to edit what goes in, or out. For example, there was one pic of me in my "fat" phase at age 14. I decided to allow it into the album because it was a piece of herstory. My favorite was assembling my mother's pictures from the 50s. Her nickname was "Venus" and I could see why. She looked like a glamorous movie star. She had a flair for fashion, but only on sale. She could make the cheap look chic. Some pics of her were so great that a collection of them I had to put into a collage frame. My problem at home is that I have too many pics of my doggies, who are my favorite subjects and best entertainment! Kathleen, what did you mean by those pictures being a trigger?

My Mother looked so stylish and classy in her old photos too. I loved the fashions way back then. Lynnie, how about positing a picture of your Mom in one of those fancy dresses. If you do, I will too! This could be fun.

Please DO girls! I would love to see them and I bet others would too! I'll see if I can find one of Mom's! That would be fun, don't you think?

I have tons of fabulous pics of my mom and dad but no way to upload or scan them. So I'll enjoy seeing yours.

here Mom!