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What I do is, and I realize most people aren't interested in something like this, is I periodically delete 90% of my mp3s. I do this for a couple of reasons:
by Frondo 10y ago
What I do is, and I realize most people aren't interested in something like this, is I periodically delete 90% of my mp3s. I do this for a couple of reasons: the tedium of having a billion mp3s I don't listen to (and schlepping them around, navigating among them, etc), and the way it pushes me into discovering new music.
I do the same for photos. Really nice photos, I keep, and so I've got a nicely curated set of pictures from the last several years. Maybe a couple hundred. Thousands more, taken, gone!
Everything passes, of course. I just make it a little more intentional.
- Retric 10y agoThere is a lot of joy to be had looking through really old photos of things you have mostly forgotten. Deleting them seems both pointless and wasteful, why not just move them to a cloud backup so you can ignore them for 10 years?
- Frondo 10y agoOh, I have a few ancient photos. Just a few, though. There's a joy in freeing myself from ever having to think about that stuff again, too. There's absolutely no cognitive burden, no cloud password to remember, no junk cropping up from time to time, none of it, because the stuff's just gone. I've gotten old family photos handed to me from time to time, like from generations ago. I didn't know these people, didn't know anyone who knew them. It was just stuff. They could've been anyone. Why keep that stuff? Why make someone else haul it around? No one's going to care, and when I realized that, I stopped caring about most of it, too.