Welcome to
Second Life's traditional clean up holiday!
This tradition was started by Alpha Zaius on the teen grid. This young guy decided that he had so much
junk that he would have to make a holiday out of it. Every year from November 1st through November
7th, second lifers everywhere are calling in sick to take time out of their
busy lives to purge their inventory. Out
with the old and in with the new!
If you're
anything like me, you look at your inventory and are completely overwhelmed at
the amount of items you've managed to collect over a short period of time. Then there's the fact that I click on the
free items even though I won't use them.
You never know, you might see me on a future episode of "Second
Life Hoarders, Buried Alive". I've
collected some tips for doing the dirty work.
Let's get started!
Step
1: Go to your own land, or a public
sandbox if you don't have a place of your own to go. If your land doesn't allow a large amount of
prims you might head on over to the sandbox anyway. I chose to use the SkyBeam Sandbox because
they have 6 levels to choose from and it is easier to find a non crowded level.
Step
2: Right-click the My Inventory folder
and select New Folder. Name this
"TEMP" folder. Move items's
you need to categorize into this folder for sorting. Do this for clothing, notecards, textures,
objects, and so on; one at a time. Be
sure to delete duplicated items along the way.
Drag a bunch of stuff to the ground around you so you can see what it is. This will make it easier to categorize. Anything you don't want you can simply throw
away. But remember, any item that is
transferable you can yard-sale or visit a place like Auction Wars. For this I recommend making a folder titled
"Yard-Sale" or "Auction Wars". After finishing right-click on the trash
listing and select to "empty trash".
Step
3: Archiving is the best way to lower
your inventory count, thus making it faster to load. This is also known as cube-stuffing. You build a prim (you can use a cube, sphere,
anything you want) then edit it, go to the "contents" tab and drag
items into it. I would recommend
categorizing your items. For example,
don't put clothes in with the furniture.
This will make it harder to sort through when you need to look for
something. Afterward click on the
"general" tab and name your prim something you'll recognize
like: Halloween, Shirts, Furniture, etc.
If you want
to go a step further and you own your own land that you know you're not going
to lose, you may place those prims on the land itself. Think of this like a storage unit so you
don't have to lug all that stuff around.
Warnings and advisories: If you
put one no copy object in a box it will make the box no copy. No copy items can
sometimes fail to rez in world and be lost forever. Do this at your own risk. Also, If you have more than 1024 scripts
total inside the box, the system will
not allow the item to rez.
You could
also make your life easier by grabbing an inventory organizer from the
marketplace. I have placed 6 FREE
storage containers on the SL Enquirer Media Grounds to help.
They have hover text over them, but you can edit the script to make it
anything you'd like. I've included
instructions in the script to help you. A great item to pick up at the
marketplace is a texture organizer, those really come in handy! What are you waiting for, get organized!
Skybeam
Sandbox: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SkyBeam/71/72/38
SL Enquirer
Media Center: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lavonia/176/42/22
Complete Texture Organizer: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Complete-Texture-Organizer/4888240
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