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I feel the same way. I love owning my stuff. My MP3 files, my ebooks, my hardcopies, vinyls, cd's, etc. All this "in the cloud" stuff just adds an extra overhea

by rfnslyr 13y ago

I feel the same way. I love owning my stuff. My MP3 files, my ebooks, my hardcopies, vinyls, cd's, etc. All this "in the cloud" stuff just adds an extra overhead to my already stressful life. "Will this company perish and all my shit be gone? Is it secure?" are questions I always think about. When I have that physical copy, the (mostly) only person I have to blame is myself for not maintaining my items integrity.

__abc 13y ago
Different strokes. Owning that stuff would add way more overhead and stress for me. Different folks.
- guiambros 13y ago
  .. or the same folks, at a different life stages. I used to love to own stuff. Had great pride of my mp3 collection with pristine ID3 tags, my Star Trek TNG collection, or the piles of magazines and books... After my last couple of moves between cities, I got tired of having to carry stuff around. Or to keep things organized, sync'ed, backed up across multiple devices. What a waste of time and money. Can't say I won this battle yet, but at least I started to be more rational. Started donating half my books, and only purchasing ebooks (except for programming languages; still prefer the dead tree version). Also gave away DVDs, almost all CDs (still need to rip a few rare ones before giving away). Threw away most magazines, except for MakeMag and Circuit Cellar. A couple of more moves and I'll be really free :) ps: speaking of donating stuff, a friend created an awesome startup for exactly that reason: http://www.bondsy.com http://www.bondsy.com. Rather useful for things that you still care, but it's time to find a new home for it.
lectrick 13y ago
I've moved like 5 times in the last 10 years. I only buy ebooks now. I use Spotify. I've sold my CD's to a used record store. I've stopped collecting mp3's. Not having a bunch of physical cruft (and not having to manage it) is better.

by rfnslyr 13y ago

__abc 13y ago

Different strokes. Owning that stuff would add way more overhead and stress for me. Different folks.

guiambros 13y ago
.. or the same folks, at a different life stages. I used to love to own stuff. Had great pride of my mp3 collection with pristine ID3 tags, my Star Trek TNG collection, or the piles of magazines and books... After my last couple of moves between cities, I got tired of having to carry stuff around. Or to keep things organized, sync'ed, backed up across multiple devices. What a waste of time and money. Can't say I won this battle yet, but at least I started to be more rational. Started donating half my books, and only purchasing ebooks (except for programming languages; still prefer the dead tree version). Also gave away DVDs, almost all CDs (still need to rip a few rare ones before giving away). Threw away most magazines, except for MakeMag and Circuit Cellar. A couple of more moves and I'll be really free :) ps: speaking of donating stuff, a friend created an awesome startup for exactly that reason: http://www.bondsy.com http://www.bondsy.com. Rather useful for things that you still care, but it's time to find a new home for it.

lectrick 13y ago

I've moved like 5 times in the last 10 years. I only buy ebooks now. I use Spotify. I've sold my CD's to a used record store. I've stopped collecting mp3's. Not having a bunch of physical cruft (and not having to manage it) is better.