I’ve had problems with paper clutter for years, then parents died and I inherited their paper and business records as well as paper that they inherited. The oldest piece is a marriage contract from 1870. So I hired a bookkeeper and over the course of a month everything was filed in chronological order. We are going through it newest to oldest. As soon as taxes filed, estate closed out I will have a shredder make a house call. After the party, I will need to learn streamlined systems going forward. Feel lighter already

💕💕💕I’m doing the 21 paper throw away every day into a box to burn & throwing away out into the weekly dumpster, some days it’s more than 21 papers, I just keep plugging, yes my piles are shrinking, my goal is to complete in 2 years, or sooner, been doing this for 9 months related to listening to several Y-tubes & broadcast like this, I worked as I listened, I am proud of myself, however, I am reclaiming my house into a less mess, so my girls want be overwhelmed with all this junk when I celebrate my last day on earth, I still feel overwhelmed. I’ve been going corner to corner in each rooms. Some of my rooms are 90% decluttered, I do have one bathroom that is 100%, I only worked on the rooms that hubby & I are living in, I still have two other bedrooms that don’t even have beds in them. I would like to make one of those rooms into a guest bedroom to sleep in, also have the garage, I have got the garage where we can park two vehicles in it and walk around them, it took several years to get myself in this mess, I am not sure if my Goal is set correctly but I’ll keep plugging day by day, I would love any suggestions, I received suggestions when I listen to your broadcast working my Goal, I appreciate these broadcasts💕💕💕 yes I wish I could reach this goal sooner but my anxiety is holding me back and the discouragement of my family always making fun of me or laughing at me over this, I’m not the only one lives in this house because when I get done with my clutter, guess who else has clutter, will he work on his? I don’t know, or will it be left up to me?, I’m venting, journaling with out using paper. Amen. Thank You

My mom saved everything. I found a calendar from 1965 with the notes of my hourly feedings. I dont have any baby pictures because they were on slides! 😊

I think the main challenge with paper clutter is that we're trained to organize them like we do taxes, so, by calendar year. But not all paperwork is equal, so it gets difficult to figure out which thing to keep for how long.

I divide my house into sections for cleaning. This week is bathrooms and my office. I have been going through my filing cabinet and shredding documents prior to 2022. Trust me I am not done yet. I saved way too much. I am enjoying the process. I believe I'm on bin #6.

22:30 - my mother owned a small buisness in the 80s-2000s. Computers weren't as "reliable" then....she tried to keep her accounting books on a computer, until the disk said "read error". She had to do 4 months of accounting, by hand, AGAIN. She NEVER touched the computer again. TODAY this wouldn't happen...but "back in the day" it sure did. "But waht happens if there is no electricity?" - is my MAJOR question.

I'm sitting here watching this with a pile of paper clutter right in front of me. I even bought a book about what, and how long to keep it. It seems like it won't go away. I purged a file cabinet, and it took me weeks. I try and throw out all of the ads immediately. Next are the books...

I will always envy you KZfaqrs with your perfect lives and levels of prestige that I will never be able to relate to but I want to express my gratitude for providing content around a topic that really matters in my life.

@25:00 🤯❤️‍🔥🤯 “…any clutter… Where do I even start?? …If you don’t understand *why* this is such a problem for you, you’re not going to experience enough pain in order to remove that excess from your life. But if you really understand *why* , you’ll understand ‘what is all this clutter getting in the way of?’ *Where* is it taking up space? - It’s not just taking up space in your home. It’s taking up space *all throughout your life* … in your head, in your heart. It’s weighing you down, psychologically. And if you let it go, you also let go of that *weight* .”

Can minimalism go too far? Absolutely! Never misplace your Ryan! (Get well soon!)

20:00 - i have converted most of my bills to email/digital. I don't really check the mailbox ( not afraid, jsut have some specific reasons) and - as a good friend of mine said "when the lights go out, so does any residual debt!" Something calming about that.

YES THIS IS THE TYPE OF CLUTTER THAT DRIVES ME INSANE

I love this episode. I am also obsessed with ridding myself of paper clutter and digital clutter. I need to get my husband on board though. He thinks because I DON'T have paper clutter that he needs it. Like he can't trust that we don not need every bank statement even though I show him that he can see them online at any time. It's a process and a journey.

Means so much that you guys checked out the album and gave me a plug on your hugely popular show. Thanks fellas! Much love to you and your followers.

I use the photocopier machine at my local library and e-mail my documents to myself. Super fast! That way I have two copies of my new digital document: the e-mail and the saved copy on my computer. Your e-mail account is really an unlimited free iCloud storage for smaller items.

Just decluttered catalogues while listening !

I loved hearing from the studio crew; they had great ideas and it would be nice to have them chiming in on a regular basis.

Joshua is so minimalist, he also got rid of Ryan! Kidding aside, get well soon, Ryan!

GET WELL SOON RYAN!! ❤️

Thank you for this,I am organised in basically every other area of my life except for paper clutter but thank you for enlightening me and will start decluttering first thing tomorrow morning

Get well sooon , Ryan ! With all the ever present talk of covid, we forget that there are just plain bad colds & flu going around! And they take their toll, too. I had a bad cold a couple weeks ago. I drank aloe vera juice, slept more, took vitamins and kept taking extra good care of myself until it ran its course. Not fun tho! Cheers for a full and speedy recovery !

Hi Josh . Can you let us know… if you know , how to get photos from cloud to computer or hard drive??? It seems nearly impossible to save them to your own preferred place . Thanks sooo much for all you are doing to help us live our best life 🙏

it leaves a lot of work for your family when you die!

I NEED this one right now in my life. Thank you!

I only keep books that are extremely sentimental to me, which includes one autographed by Eva Schloss, keepsakes that i got from London when i went there when i turned 16 and my bloodtest sheet that i have to give to my doctor. The rest i shred and recycle. I always ask my bank to not send me something physically, unless it's my new card and i ask them to destroy the old one. Everything else is digitized, including my school stationary, old photos and even books.

Love the background looks like snowy trees. Love your voice...you could be a voice pro. Get well Ryan love your laugh.

I took your book to my local library.

Yes I hateeeeee paper clutter! I use a 1 terabyte drive can keep in safety deposit box. Not sure about cloud storage as who owns it.

My husband laughs at how fast I toss junk mail. He saved a 60 year old photo of backs of uncles and aunts. Backs, no faces. Tina, Al's wife

Books and my disabled son's medical and social benefit paperwork are like THE BLOB in my house. I'm attached to books and I cannot lie...

Great content..God bless you both!!

He mentioned links being in the show notes but I don't see any. Have they been shredded already?

This backdrop behind you looks cool! So much better.

Re: photos. KNOW THE DIFFERENCE between crap snapshots and images of family and/or historical value! Images you throw away might be important to your city or state, or for government or military service. Ask museums if they want donations. Ask family if they want them. Photographs used to be art, so don't just pitch them!

Sending speedy recovery thoughts for Ryan all the way from 'Down Under' aka Australia 🇦🇺 😆

But how do you take a photo of a photo and not have the shadow or the glare That's my issue...

I'm hoping to include a photo scanning party at our next family reunion.

in this age of AI and of course, the ever-present hackers, I worry about having all my private information out there "in the cloud". Where is this cloud? Who is controlling it? Is my info being manipulated without me knowing it?

I love books but now I've minimized them and consider the small stacks as aesthetic design.

That new intro is awesome.

80s music? Billy Idol, A Flock of Seagulls, Missing Persons, The Fixx!!!!

GREAT INFO

One thing I learned the hard way: You can't bring Disneyland home with you! You end up with a bunch of photos of strangers ! keep that simple, and other amusement or touristy pics.

Thanks for this ❤️

Valuable links and info. Thanks!

Feel better Ryan! Great job JFM!

I actually back up photos from my phone on a DVD and a stick. I fear.. that I will lose one or the other. Sticks can break DVDs can break. That way I have one

Ok….once we scan all these documents. How do we organize them? On computer or on Dropbox?

I dont want my photos in a cloud..i will totally forget about them & they will be gone.

How Ryan’s feeling better 😖 I lost my taste and smell late last year but kept testing negative. However my partner started feeling the same symptoms and tested positive 😳 odd times

3-2-1 ... three copies on - two mediums - one off-site ... if you don't have two copies of something, it doesn't really exist

What if these companies go out of business😮?

Ugh... I have a bill in my city that I have to send in with the check and I get a paper bill in the mail for it and it is so annoying!

Joshsolo, yeahhh, well done Ryan, allows him to declutter even more. Hope he won't dump my paper get well soon card to you🤣

Can you post the links, please? Thanks!

I'm looking in the show notes for product links and only see time stamps and a link to Patreon. Little help?

Paper clutter is the WORST!!

scanners are WAY too slow - smart phone camera are WAY better than even some scanners and SUPER fast

The Minimalists getting so extreme, they put Ryan in a carton box with "Host" written on it and will unpack him when they need him?

Please help me. I need a thorough miracle. This is not a quality of life, especially with disability.

There is also KZfaq time clutter, all these minimalists that repeat themselves excessively to tell you in 30' what they could tell you in 5'. You also have good content, but too cluttered with unimportant detail.