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Bit late for a What I Did At The Weekend (Went to Caption (Oxford small press comics convention) on Saturday, and down south to visit parental units on the Sunday) post, but one of the things I did was clear some of my junk out of a parental loft.
[Poll #1446736]
I found that I had 3 cardboard boxes of "school stuff" and 2 plastic crates of "University stuff". I didn't have much time to go through it, but managed to sling a few bits (such as all my sixth form era invites to University open days). While I do like the odd doodle in the margin, and in joke scrawled on the cover of a notebook, I'm really not sure I need to keep quite this volume of stuff.
Given that I haven't looked at it in years, and am unlikely to do so in the near future, I probably should just sling most of it. But it's so final. This stuff, as useless as it is, is literally irreplaceable. I managed to avoid picking up a "bargin" in IKEA the other day on the basis that I'd rather pay full price when I need it, than hang onto something that just takes up space. But this stuff is my own hand.
[Poll #1446736]
I found that I had 3 cardboard boxes of "school stuff" and 2 plastic crates of "University stuff". I didn't have much time to go through it, but managed to sling a few bits (such as all my sixth form era invites to University open days). While I do like the odd doodle in the margin, and in joke scrawled on the cover of a notebook, I'm really not sure I need to keep quite this volume of stuff.
Given that I haven't looked at it in years, and am unlikely to do so in the near future, I probably should just sling most of it. But it's so final. This stuff, as useless as it is, is literally irreplaceable. I managed to avoid picking up a "bargin" in IKEA the other day on the basis that I'd rather pay full price when I need it, than hang onto something that just takes up space. But this stuff is my own hand.
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... the idea of the scanning of old convention flyers etc. is to make them available for historical/searching purposes ... I do not intend to be a research library for those ... PRs and Programme books on the other hand I'll try to keep a paper copy as long as I can (or pass it on to a longer term archive if the Foundation or similar is interested).
You're right of course, but I really do need to declutter (and there is a company selling special "DVD_Rs" (need a special writer but read in a normal reader) that claim a 1,000 year readable lifespan ... but I'm not planning on buying one of those ... I do try to keep at least two copies (on different hard disks) plus a DVD+R copy of all my important files (e.g. my photographs, word documents, backups of my websites, my email archive etc.) and every few years I copy it all again onto larger backup drives (my backup drives a few years back were 120Gb or smaller, then are now 320Gb or 500Gb drives, but then currently attached at home I have a 1Tb, a 750Gb and a 300Gb external drive (750Gb is my music drive, 300Gb is my TV drive and is FULL ... 1Tb drive is all sorts of stuff including the music and TV that won't fit on the other drives!) ... the stack of Toshiba external drives are currently awaiting unpacking from my trip back from Cambridge (five drives of 320 to 500Gb) ... I figure the TV stuff can be downloaded again, ditto a lot of the music, so it's really the rare stuff plus my own documents and images of the main C drives that need to be backed up regularly)