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Our sister site is doing some posts about decluttering on Facebook, and we came across this Decluttering Challenge from Apartment Therapy that has a good article with suggestions about dealing with a different kind of clutter: digital clutter. Things like phone photos piling up and documents all over your pc hard drive can be stressful when you have to keep paying more for cloud storage or when you can’t find what you need quickly. A lot of video files can fill up space, too.
Check out their article for some suggestions on dealing with digital clutter. (This particular article is for day eight of a larger decluttering challenge.) And for more tips, check out our sister site’s Facebook page (actually the home company of Nerd Fiesta) which is where Manucy Studios LLC posts most often.
I loathe taking on another subscription. I fear that paying by subscription is already ingrained in such a large proportion of the population that we will increasingly rent and not buy things. One thing I really don’t want to cut corners with is security; I don’t paying more for a good device; yet, my goal has been to go the non-subscription route whenever possible. That’s where Eufy cameras come in!
If folks would take just a bit of time to do some research, I’m convinced we wouldn’t see so many Ring and Nest cameras around. You can get great security camera coverage and app availability with a *one-time* purchase of the many Eufy branded security cameras available. A neighbor suggested the brand to me after I complained about a very cheap camera I had purchased at Walmart that wasn’t proving to be reliable. Since trying my first Eufy camera (a SoloCam C210) I haven’t looked back. I’ve now added a couple of their solar powered cameras to my mix so I don’t even have to worry about charging them. One of the solar cameras isn’t even outside — it’s near a window indoors and charges without direct sunlight.
All the things you can do with the popular subscription based cameras, you can do with a Eufy cam: view images remotely with a mobile app, customize recording length, talk and listen through the camera, etc. You can get models with movement activated lights, add a homebase and connect multiple cameras to it, or just add single cameras one by one and control them all through one app.
Don’t just assume you need a subscription because that’s what your not-so-tech-savvy coworkers are getting. Great products are still out there without the monthly purse drag and without sacrificing quality.
I’ll get right to it — my family has had good success transferring our cell service to US Mobile. We pay annually to maximize savings and get so much data for so little, we don’t have to track usage and even have a generous amount to use for hot spotting when needed. Our current plan works out to less than $25/month per line and has 70GB of data! If your data needs are less, they frequently have very low cost plans available.
Since my Mom likes to use her cordless phone system, we even have their home phone plan (remember land lines?!). Traditional land lines are either expensive or unavailable but with US Mobile you can set up a home phone system like back in the day.
If you use this link to purchase a phone plan, I’ll get some benefits, so please use it if you are looking to make the switch! https://www.usmobile.com/referrals?referrer=738FC5A8&name=Patricia&utm_campaign=monster_referral
