If cutting excess clothes from your closet didn’t float your boat, maybe a gadget audit will “suit” you?
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The virtual rooms of school and work have added tech paraphernalia to our drawers and desk areas.
Pop-up classrooms and offices invite excess:
• free-standing mics & earbuds
• USB adaptors & chargers
• wifi boosters & extra monitors
• external speakers & noise-cancelling headsets
Throughout AUG — from anywhere within your home — Audit Unused Gadgets.
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Is it useful?
It’s time to look at what really gets used.
If you have more than one of the same gadget, device, or thing, decide between the two:
• which is the most useful
• AND the easiest to use
(or clean or charge)
Is it useful to YOU?
• remember to ask if it is STILL useful in your life
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Is it unique?
Especially if this isn’t your only pen-knife, dual time-zone watch, muffin tin, lemon zester:
• Is really so different and special from whichever other one(s) you own?
Another way to ask this question:
• Does it solve a unique problem?
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How user-friendly is it?
Only you can answer for yourself how easy something is to reload, recharge, handle, and manage.
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Up-to-date and updatable are different considerations.
Some classics never go out of style. Other items drop in “class” when they can’t be updated in today’s e-world.
Make sure all your keepers have a designated spot when not in use.
Otherwise, clutter-creep will take over your work & prep surfaces and fill your drawers.