MangoMan wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 10:50 am
vnatale wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 10:37 am
MangoMan wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 8:22 am
I have near-zero inbox in my gmail account with NO filtering except a few auto-deletes of spam. I have unsubcribed from newsletters and such that I don't have time or desire to read. Everything else stays in my inbox until I address it, which means read and then delete, archive, or take necessary action. Very few ever last in my inbox more than a few days. But then, I am the opposite of a hoarder. I insists on a neat & organized home and work space, and any minor crap that I probably don't need but decide to keep around anyway is hidden in the attic or spare room closet.
I am the paradoxical hoarder. I actually went to a class for it in 2005. And, the woman who came to my house to do a before inspection said she'd never seen anything like it. Most hoarders are completely unorganized with things just thrown into piles. I have huge collections of many things. And, being off-the-charts organized, all I own is either in numerical, chronological, or alphabetical order. In the pre-computer days I'd leave my office each day with absolutely nothing on my office desk so the next day I started each day fresh and just put on it only what I was working on it at the time. And, in the way I do my work I'm extremely structured and organized.
Vinny
Can I assume, then, that you are not married? Very few spouses would put up with that.
Correct assumption. However, in my late mid-20s, I lived in a hour for four years that was near a college. It was a small house, no more than 1,000 square feet. It came with 3 bedrooms. The landlord when I moved in was 27 when I moved into that house. And, he and his girl friend also lived there. As part of someone's rent he had two more bedrooms built in the basement. Therefore, there were generally five (sometimes six, and, for a short period of time - eight) people living in that house (with only ONE bathroom!).
Over that four year span I lived with 33 different people. About 1/4 were female. And, since I was much younger with little money I had yet to acquire anywhere to 1/100 of what I now own. As a result there were no one among those 33 other people who was more organized and cleaner than myself. After three years of trying to clean up and organize for all those other people the last year there I just threw in the towel and said I'd only worry about the state of my own bedroom.
I grew up in a house where nothing was out of place, nothing from my bedroom or my area of the basement was even anywhere else in the house, and there was one tiny unorganized location in the entire house - one single "junk" drawer.
I have so much because whenever I have a specific interest I collect.
Vinny