Newsletter Archives

Welcome to the Year of the Fire Horse! 🔥🐎 Move forward boldly!

It's the "Year of the Fire Horse" in the Chinese zodiac. The rare "Fire Horse" occurs once every 60 years combining the Horse's natural speed with the Fire element. The Fire Horse symbolizes intense passion, independence, bold leadership, and significant, often tumultuous, transformation. It's 2026 and things are moving! "Tumultuous transformation" may not be a comfort zone, but sometimes the old way of doing things just doesn't work anymore. Let's go!

More tips to live your best life, this year and next.

Emphasizing that rest and recovery isn't selfish, introducing a simple framework for goal planning, and step #2 of the photo challenge is presented.

Catching up, Photos, and Papers

Emphasizing the importance of collecting old photos (and sharing the process of scanning my own childhood photos!) and giving an easy way to sort and reduce household papers.

Your digital files and a household challenge!

Clearing digital clutter off of your desktop and a 5 minute challenge with quick ideas to rethink how to organize your home.

It's July!

Explains the process of digital photo backups, shows the before and after in the cleaning of a basement, and introduces the Trashie Take Back Bag!

December -- Permission to Pause

Allow yourself to rest and recharge during the holiday season.

September is SYPM and a Top Tip about Recycling!

A reminder about Save Your Photos Month and a reminder about the process of a variety of special collections for local recycling.

A Book Drive -- An Opportunity to Give Back

A book drive fundraiser invitation for the South Hills!

Sentimental items and next steps on organizing photos

Happy New Year! Dealing with sentimental objects and the next step in our photo organizing challenge.

Take Your TIME and Sort Those Photos!

Slow productivity is not a problem, it's just a different way to do things. This is described using a personal example from my life. Different ways to organize photos are presented and the first step of a photo organizing challenge is introduced!

Critical Care For Your December Calendar

Finding empty space in your calendar for yourself.

Welcome to September!

Introduction to SYPM (Save Your Photos Month), explaining the difference between decluttering and organizing, emphasizing Keep. It. Simple., and a Trashie Bag Update.

It's June!

Thinking about packing strategies for travel, how to clean out a garage, and controlling phone usage.

Q4 Enthusiasm!

Some tips about approaching the last 3 months of the year differently to finish out strong.

Get Ready for SYPM!

Preparing your photo collection for Save Your Photos Month with The Photo Managers. 

A Thank You from RETHINK

A message on the 2-year anniversary of RETHINK!

Year-End Reflections and Joy

Celebrating 5 years as RETHINK organization LLC and encouraging people to take some time to do nothing and rest.

A Password Story and Some Encouragement

Information about managing passwords and some words of encouragement for the month.

In Your Inbox -- Thinking Digital This Month

Holidary wishes, digital housekeeping, and clearing digital clutter!

August Edition -- Still Summer!

How to spend the last month before sending a child to college, whether to keep or toss memorabilia, and SYPM (Save Your Photos Month) is coming in September.

A busy season at RETHINK, a blog, new offerings, and a Top Tip!

Where has Mandy been and where is she going? And explaining Swedish death cleaning, Trustworthy.com, and the process for reducing spam calls.

An October Email Challenge

Encouraging readers to approach email inboxes differently, includes a link to RETHINK blog '5 Tips to Control Your Inbox.'

Photo Industry Update -- Costco and Shutterfly

Photo industry update about Shutterfly and Costco shutting down photo storage and the encouraged use of Forever as a photo storage company.