Word: cluttered
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...shoes this morning? If so, you are probably one of the thousands of people who follow the online words and wisdom of Marla Cilley, known to her flock as the FlyLady. Through her quirky website, flylady.net and accompanying online mailing list, Cilley relentlessly pursues her mission: to banish all clutter...
...list last April. "Now I wake up excited to be alive." And while there is no shortage of organizational guides for sale in bookstores, or professionals who will do the dirty work for a fee, only Cilley offers a free service that promises both inner joy and a clutter-free home...
...help flybabies stay on track, Cilley bombards them with e-mail reminders--about 10 a day--to do a five-minute "room rescue," say, or to plan their calendar for the following week. She sends out daily "attitude adjusting" essays with titles such as "Eviction Notice: Clutter, Pack Your Bags!" and "Do Not Crash and Burn!" followed by testimonials from members. One new mother from Pittsburgh recently wrote in to say, "With the FlyLady at my side, I am not A.L.O.N.E.--anxious, lost, overwhelmed, negative and exhausted...
...mails create too much clutter in themselves? "Just delete them," says Cilley, who insists that the goal is progress, not perfection. One rule, however, is ironclad: no whining...
...funny), but what makes it truly superior is the clever, stress-saving bells and whistles that come from millions of geek hours of testing. For example: every morning I scroll through News.com open-ing articles in new browser windows as I go, for later perusal. These windows tend to clutter up my desktop and get in my face. But Mozilla's "tabbed-browsing" feature lets me open those new windows behind the page I'm currently reading; when I'm ready, I just bring them to the front by clicking on neat little manila-folder-style tabs. Bliss. Mozilla also...