{"id":338,"date":"2013-04-07T13:27:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T13:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2013-04-09T16:26:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:26:58","slug":"inventory-maintenance-mars-100-items-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/07\/inventory-maintenance-mars-100-items-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventory Maintenance: Mar&#8217;s 100 Items Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear.<\/p>\n<p>*sheepish grin*<\/p>\n<p>Inventory creep. It happens to all of us, right?<\/p>\n<p>I was just looking back through my Inventory Management summary page, and noticed the following on an early-ish post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8230;the one where I had that initial panicked moment on realising my inventory was 30K and out of control&#8230;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*cough* Um&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Right! Well. Er&#8230; nice weather we&#8217;re having at the moment, huh?<\/p>\n<p>*catcalls and yells of, &#8220;Get to the point, Mar, you slacker!&#8221;*<\/p>\n<p>*le huge sigh* Okay, okay. Come on, you know as well as I do that inventory creep does indeed happen to all of us. Even those of us who are (supposedly!) inventory management, er, mavens?<\/p>\n<p>I need a kick up the butt. Do you need one, too? OK, we can kick each other then (and if we wear clogs it&#8217;ll look like Riverdance or something). I hereby present&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Mar&#8217;s 100 Items Challenge!<\/h2>\n<p>Woah, that was big. Then again&#8230; so is Mar&#8217;s inventory&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blogpics\/100itemschallenge.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"699\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hop behind the cut!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<p>Every day that we&#8217;re logged on (multiple sessions for a single avatar in a single day will count as one big session, so don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to make you do this every time you crash or relog in a single day!) we&#8217;re going to clear <strong>100 items<\/strong><em> <\/em><em><\/em>from our inventories, for the next month.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I realise that sounds like a lot, but to begin with it&#8217;ll be easy. Some tips:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set your inventory filters to show only landmarks and clear them all out. Keep a few that you always use, and buy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/tutorial-make-your-own-landmarks-hud\/\" target=\"_blank\">or make!<\/a>) a landmark HUD to put them in.<\/li>\n<li>Then set the filters to show notecards only, and get rid of old group notices and &#8216;thank you for buying this item!&#8217; notecards that don&#8217;t have instructions or other useful things in them. And, unless the items have a particularly wierd resizing HUD, do you <em>really<\/em> need instructions on how to resize scripted items anymore? Just append &#8216;RZ&#8217; to the end of the folder name if you need to remember the item is script-resize.<\/li>\n<li>Next up, filter to scripts only and chuck all those hovering text and unpacker scripts.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, filter to animations and delete all those bag-holding animations (keep the best ones, if you like to use them for blog poses, etc).<\/li>\n<li>Reset filters to &#8216;everything&#8217; and then search for &#8216;pose&#8217;, &#8216;posing&#8217;, and &#8216;adjust&#8217; and get rid of all those pose stands. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/27\/tutorial-make-your-own-pose-hud\/\" target=\"_blank\">Make your own Pose HUD!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Look through fatpacks of shoes and boots. If you have all of one design in every colour, make one big folder and put one shoebase and one alpha layer in it, then move across all the &#8216;colours&#8217; folders into that big folder, and delete the extra alphas and shoebases. You only need one for each shoe design! Same thing goes for multiple colours of a single mesh clothing item.<\/li>\n<li>Start weeding out the mesh sizes you don&#8217;t wear. Most mesh clothing comes with at least five sizes, and we usually only wear one! Load them into boxes called &#8216;[item name] unworn sizes&#8217; and put them in the relevant folder. An added bonus of this is: you&#8217;ll never need to try on several sizes until you remember which one you wear for that piece of clothing!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>100 items per avatar that you log in, per day, people. If your avatar has a small, trim inventory, but you still want to keep it in check, adjust the number of items accordingly. Maybe 50 or 25. But let&#8217;s stick to it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>An important note: I&#8217;m not twisting your arm to log in each day! Mar certainly doesn&#8217;t; sometimes she only logs in once per week, but on those days she does log in, she&#8217;ll do the 100 Items thing. Also, if you really don&#8217;t have time &#8211; for instance, you&#8217;re just running in-world quickly to pay your rent &#8211; don&#8217;t sweat it! Save the 100 Items for when you actually have more than five minutes in-world!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Use this post as a check-in if you like, or link back to posts on your own blogs\/Flickrs\/Twitter\/Plurk\/etc. Post your starting amount and then come back to chart your progress. I might even run a league table or keep a spreadsheet ;)<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get to it!<\/p>\n<p>My starting total: a horrifying <del>57,839<\/del>. Um, 57,897 (I just added some stuff. Oops!)<\/p>\n<p>*cracks knuckles*<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Addendum<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Scripts and half my notecards (omg, I have so many!) deleted and I now have: 57,696. Total deleted: 201<\/p>\n<p>Hey, let&#8217;s keep a tally of how many items we&#8217;ve deleted in total! Comment here with each day&#8217;s total and I&#8217;ll blog and tweet it at the end of each week :)<\/p>\n<p><strong>09.04.13<\/strong> &#8211; 239 more items deleted from Mar&#8217;s inventory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear. *sheepish grin* Inventory creep. It happens to all of us, right? I was just looking back through my Inventory Management summary page, and noticed the following on an early-ish post: &#8230;the one where I had that initial panicked moment on realising my inventory was 30K and out of control&#8230; *cough* Um&#8230; Right! Well. Er&#8230; nice weather we&#8217;re having at the moment, huh? *catcalls and yells of, &#8220;Get to the point, Mar, you slacker!&#8221;* *le huge sigh* Okay, okay&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/07\/inventory-maintenance-mars-100-items-challenge\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[45,112],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inventory","tag-inventory-management","tag-mars-100-items-challenge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sl4nowt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}