With the New Year fast approaching, a lot of us have some extra time to catch up on some work or finish up some projects that we started throughout the year.  There are a number of things people can do to reduce to the clutter in your lives.   I’m going to approach this from a couple angles.   First, what you can do as a blogger, and second, some general tips to reduce your daily clutter.

Blogger Tips

  • Clean Up Your Theme – Browse through your blog themes and validate/clean up the code.   Make sure you are using all those images in your images folder.
  • Update Your WordPress Plugins – WordPress 2.3 really helps with this, but not all plugins are registered and notify you of updates.  The end of the year is a great time to go through all of your plugins and make sure they are up to date.
  • Write Extra Posts – Write up a few posts and save them as drafts for a rainy/sick day.
  • Clean Out Your Feed Reader/Newsletters – Feed readers fill up fast, and will continue to grow in the New Year.   Cancel some of those feeds that haven’t updated in awhile or that you don’t really need (unless it is this one!).  Also cancel some of those newsletters that clog up your inbox.

General Tips

  • Clean Out Your E-mail -  Create some new labels/folders, tidy up your inbox, and make sure all your e-mails are responded to.
  • Clean Out Your Add-ons – Web browsers often slow down if you build up a bunch of add-ons.  Comb through your list of add-ons and delete some that aren’t being used enough to warrant having.
  • Delete Old Software – Throughout the year we all stock up on a variety of software, much of which goes unused.   Delete this extra software to free up some system resources.
  • Defrag Harddrive – Some ambitious people may completely reformat their harddrive, but you’ll want to at least defrag your harddrive.

Anything you do at the end of each year to reduce your daily clutter?