Posts in September 28, 2025

A friend recently posted some thoughts from a minimalist who really seemed to think that you need to throw away as much of your “old stuff as possible.” I’m not necessarily a fan of throwing away as “everything,” but there are things to get rid of as one cannot preserve everything. Some thoughts as someone who has at least twelve totes of stuff. 1–Anything you can do to reduce the bulk should be done. This includes those artsy scrapbooks with all the extra paper, “decorations,” and the like. Don’t create archival things that require significantly more space than the item already occupies. 2–Digitize and identify on the image what you know about it. Metadata is fine, but annotations added to the bottom/side of the image are very helpful. People […]