SL for Nowt

Since I woke up super-early today (and it’s a glorious day, so I’m feeling rather chipper) you’re getting your Sunday task on what’s probably still Saturday night for you :p And, since it’s a weekend many of us will have a bit more time free, so there’s an extra task for those that have a lot of time to dedicate to their inventory today.

For those with a lot of time to spare:
– Open up your Body Parts folder and make several new folders inside it, each with an exclamation mark and a space before the folder name (to push it to the top of the list). Make these folders for: Eyes, Hair, Shapes, Skins. If you feel they also belong in here you might want folders for prim hands and feet, hairbase tattoos, and eyebrow shapers, as well as physics layers (if you use them).

– Open up a second inventory window and begin to sort relevant folders into your new body parts folders. Run quick searches (‘eyes’, ‘skin’, etc) to catch the bulk of items first, then start to look for stragglers that you missed. This may seem like a big task, but you’ll be surprised how well you know your inventory (after all, you scroll through it a lot, muttering as you look for something, right?) and you’ll probably catch most items within half an hour or so.

– Sort each new body parts folder as it makes sense to you. This could be by store name, by colour (hair, eyes, and maybe even skins), or by type (hairstyles, shapes, skins, etc). Then sort and file the contents of at least one folder into those sub-folders.

For those with a bit of time to spare:
– Create the folders, as above, and run the same searches to grab as much as you can and stuff it into the relevant folder, but don’t worry overmuch for now about the stragglers. However, if – when you’re logged in at a later date and looking for something – you come across a straggler that belongs in the new folders, put it in there when you see it. Make that a new habit!

For those with less time:
– Create the folders, as above, and do as many of the searches as you can. Try to keep doing this, little and often, whenever you log in. Even five minutes now and then will have everything sorted within a week!

Here’s your Saturday de-cluttering task!

Saturday

For those with a bit of time to spare:
– Search for ‘pose’, ‘posing’, and ‘adjustment’ and get rid of all those extraneous pose stands cluttering up your inventory. Then, use my tutorial to make a simple one-prim, one-script Pose HUD to use in future. And keep on top of deleting all those pose stands! Make it something you do before logging off each day: check your Recent Items tab, look in every folder, and get rid of the pose stands!

For those with less time:
– Do the search listed above and ditch the pose stands. Leave the Pose HUD for another time, but remember to keep on top of deleting pose stands!

And, because I’ll never ask you to do something I won’t do myself, here’s the result of yesterday’s task: the 25 oldest objects in Mar’s inventory:

That little lot contains a surprisingly large amount of salvagable items. In order of purchase, they run from the bottom row, on the left (bought at Free Dove on the very first day Mar rezzed). That skirt and sweater set has stood the test of time and still looks great, as does the “70s Chick” outfit near the right, and all the items by S.Y.D and all-but-one of the Layniewear dresses. The camo capris in the “freebie 0L$ yellow box on the middle row are perfectly wearable, as is the red cardigan by Deka. The full-perm boxes in the centre of the middle row had to go, though ;)

I’ve been doing these occasionally on Twitter, but it seemed like a fun thing to start on the blog, too: little daily prompts to do a small bit of inventory-sorting. Think of it like cleaning your virtual clutter, Flylady-style!

I’m going to create a schedule of ‘little and often’ things to do each day. While it’s still in the planning stage it’ll just be one thing per day, but I hope to expand it so that there are options for everyone, no matter the state of their inventory.

So we begin with today, which is Friday (at least, for most of the world; those of you in Australia and the like get a free pass!)

Friday

For those with a bit of time to spare:
– Rez the 25 oldest items in your Objects folder and unpack them. Take a good look at them. If it’s clothing, try it on to see what it’s like. Some of it may be salvageble (a great top with an iffy pair of pants; you can keep the top!) and some of it may be instantly trashable. File what you want to keep (don’t just let it sit in the unpacked folder; put it somewhere!) and ditch the stuff you don’t want. If it has sentimental value or you might want it in future, rez out a prim into which you’re going to put things you want to keep, and use that as an archive box.

For those with less time:
– Rez the five oldest items in your Objects folder and treat as above.