Things I’m not going to do anymore
Posted on October 18, 2010 by LJ Earnest
Categories: Productivity
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Michell commented on my post about stagnation that there is a category of things she won’t do anymore. I thought about this, and I’ve come up with my list of things I will not do. After all, “life is too short to fold socks.”
Fold my daughter’s laundry. She’s eight. She’s old enough to fold her own clothes. I also look at this as valuable life training.
Wear uncomfortable shoes. I saw what wearing fashionable shoes did to my aunts’ feet. Hammertoes are nasty. I will not wear shoes that pinch, hurt or give blisters.
Buy dryclean-only clothes. The chemicals that drycleaning uses are toxic. The clothes smell funky when I get them back. And thanks to my inability to pass a day without spilling something on myself, clothes have to be cleaned frequently. Washable clothes only for me.
Choke down veggies I can’t stand. My father, the son of a farmer and an avid gardener, grew weird vegetables in addition to the beans, cucumbers and tomatoes. Some of the veggies I learned to appreciate, like sugar snap peas and black radishes. Others I developed a hate for: asparagus, Brussels sprouts and parsnips. I like a wide variety of veggies, including odd ones like beets, turnips, rutabagas and such. So I refuse to eat the ones that disgust me.
Work through lunch out of laziness. Sometimes it is just too much effort to get away from my desk during lunch. I may tell myself I will just sit and read, but I always end up thinking of “just one more thing” and working through lunch. I won’t do that anymore. I will make an effort to get away from my desk during my lunch break.
Work right up until bedtime. I have a habit of frantically doing things up until the minute I fall into bed. The old joke is the woman says she’s going to bed and cleans the kitchen, folds the laundry, packs lunches and gets to bed an hour later; the man says he’s going to bed and goes to bed. I get in cycles where I am doing things other than relaxing right up until I hit the sheets, and then I wonder why I can’t sleep. I will take at least a half hour to relax right before bed.
Read books that suck. I read. A lot. And most of what I read is pretty good. But there have been times when I have not liked a book, but finished reading it for one of three reasons: 1) it’s in a series I have read the rest of; 2) someone recommended it; 3) I can’t believe that something so bad could get published. If I don’t like the book by page 50, it’s time to move on. There are plenty of other books out there.
Take something just because it is free. This plays into the “I won’t read books that suck”. I am getting used to my Kindle, and honestly it is inspiring me to read more. I will pay for books, but Amazon dangles free ones in front of me as well. For the first few weeks I would downlod them and attempt to read them. Most did not make it past the first 50 pages. And now, because I can’t figure out how to purge my Kindle archive, I can’t find the books I want to read.
I want to know what you think life is too short to do. Share below!
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Comments (7)
I saw a list similar to this on another blog. It wasn’t called a “Bucket List,” but a word that starts with “F” and rhymes with “bucket.”
Too funny.
Removing items from your Kindle is soooo not intuitive but it is actually pretty easy.
When the line is below the item you want to remove, you need to push the 4way button to the right and it will give you the option to remove from the device.
It also gives you an option to Add to a Collection which is much easier than going in to a collection and using the Add/Remove Items feature.
Thanks.
I’m not concerned with removing it from the device; I want to remove it from my archives as well. I’d like to be able to get rid of a book for good out of the archives so I never have to think about it again.
It’s like purging my bookshelves at home. There are some books I want to keep, and others that I just don’t ever want to think about again. If I kept all my books at home, I’d never be able to find anything. That’s the problem I’m running into with the Kindle Archive…I can’t find what I am looking for because of all the garbage in there.
Any suggestions?
What a great post! you are so right – life is too short! Where do we get the ideas that we should do all these things in the first place do you think! BTW – I’ve never folded socks!
Yes, you can! Regretfully, you have to do it from your Amazon account. If you go to the Manage your kindle page and look at your orders, next to each title there should + to expand the title. When you do that you should see a delete button.
Just remember once deleted if you ever want it back you will have to buy it again.
Good luck with purging your shelves
I’m just deleting the ones — mostly acquired for free — that are really awful. You know, the kind that I either couldn’t read, or that were just so gosh-awful that I wondered how they ever could have been published in the first place.