That really hit home for me. My apartment clutter is made up of mostly paper and books. The paper is from tons of purchase receipts and random documents. My room is full of books that I have already read and will most likely never read again.

So because of all that clutter, I have a hard time finding things when I need them.

I was thinking about purchasing receipts. Why do stores still give paper receipts??? With electronic commerce (credit or debit), smart phones, and the internet; you would think that banks and credit card companies could invent something that just stores my purchase information into my bank statement electronically. So when I make a purchase at a store, instead of getting a paper receipt, I just get an electronic record of the receipt in my bank account.

Then I can log online see all the receipts of my puchases. That information would actually be very handy in electronic format. Software programs can then analyize where are money is going. We know how much we spent on food, clothing, electronics, magazine, etc. That is a lot better than just seeing the total amount of the purchase .

So we could not only cut back on the amount wasted paper, we could also manage our budgets better. We could cut back on buying more pointless junk when we see exactly where our money is going.

Just a thought….

So, I’m not good with math but I’m wondering if I can say something like, “every time I find myself searching for something in my home, it takes five minutes off my life?”

- Charley