How to zap digital clutter instead of scrolling on your phone
Less addictive, more useful.
Here at Your House Machine, we talk decluttering of all sorts: the obvious around the house decluttering, but also psychic decluttering, financial simplification, and today we will talk digital decluttering.
Some of my favorite ways to digitally declutter are to prune your phone’s photo collection and organize your financial documents. Today I am sharing a few other ideas for further digital decluttering. It’s so easy for clutter to build up in your digital life, and clearing it out has similar benefits as clearing out house clutter.
1. Clean up your contact list
A month ago, I had — I kid you not — over 3,000 contacts in my phone. What anarchy!
I somehow have never lost my contacts since college…they just grow and grow as I move to new phones. At one point, a bizarre Gmail setting created a contact for every single email I sent, ballooning my contacts beyond any hope of management.
Beyond any hope, that is, until last week. I was grousing yet again about my unwie…