I’m currently typing this on my beautiful, brand new Macbook Pro. Its sooo shiny and sooo flawless and sooo wonderful.
And its sooo empty. I’m currently filling it with some of my music and the other things. I want to get an external hard drive for most of it though, to reduce the clutter.
In case you don’t know, I’m rather sentimental. I wish I wasn’t, but it’s the truth. This is going to sound extremely lame, but when my horoscope several weeks ago said to clean through my past memories and mementos, it definitely caught my eye, since I have such a difficult time doing that with my material possessions. So I’m using this time to comb through what I really need to electronically keep vs. what I don’t really need to keep but WANT to keep, i.e. the papers I wrote in my 19th Century British Poetry class, every single newspaper article I ever wrote and the billions upon billions of cover letters. And as I contemplate to drag it into the garbage bin in the corner of the screen and clicking ‘delete’, the packrat’s four word motto rings in my ears: You just never know…..
So what say you, Internet friends? Are you able to throw things away without a second thought (if so, give tips), or are you stuck in sentimentality too?
4 Comments
June 24, 2009 at 12:34 am
Definitely can’t, if it’s like long personal notes or you know, some journal files I keep in the old computer. LOL. That;d make me super sentimental.
I started keeping journals in 4th grade and I never got rid of any of them. My family moved, so they’re in storage, but I’m determined to get those back.
June 24, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Word files are small. I got an external and simply dragged everything over. Although I have to mentioned that I’ve accessed that hard drive maybe five times in three whole years.
So you never DO know… (but probably not).
Good luck!
Thanks!
June 24, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Last week I threw away a huge sack of magazines that held a special meaning to me.
I hold on to magazines for yeaaaars. Granted, I eventually use them for art projects, so they’re not entirely wasted.
June 25, 2009 at 3:26 pm
First things first, I highly recommend Western Digital’s MyPassport series of external hard drives. They’re portable USB drives and in addition to being very handy, they’re fast and come in sizes up to I think 500 gb.
I like to keep most of what I write, be it papers for school, blog posts, or what have you, and I’ve got a pretty extensive system of categorization going on to do so. I occasionally delete stuff, but the size of hard drive storage these days is really limiting the need for doing such things. So I guess that means I’m more a categorizer than I am a thrower-awayer. Not sure that that helps in any way, though.