Back in the “good ol’ days” of film, I took a LOT of ‘just pictures’. Those would be nice to look at again, but I wouldn’t miss them. Most were not that great anyway. The ones I was finding in the mess were pictures of Robbie as a baby – me as a kid – my parents – you know: history. THOSE I would miss terribly. Actually as I was finding them I was trying to figure where I would put them. I do have a box of photos for Robbie in my ‘dining room’, and thought I would go through them and put the ‘good ones’ in there. That is a good winter project, don’t you think? Toss the others, but the HISTORY ones, stick those in his album.
As for everything else, there are boxes of Photoshop User magazines – photo magazines – piles and piles of just papers. Most of the papers I need to keep for IRS purposes are together and stored upstairs in the garage. I think all other papers are going to the burn barrel.
What the fire do I need 20 – year – old Professional Photographer magazines for??? Everything- E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G has changed in the photo world. Just memories are all they are. Some good info, but NOTHING I can’t find something similar online. (Yes, I’m writing this partly to tell myself it will be okay – if I need it, I can find it somewhere.)
Moving forward, I will take care of ‘stuff’ as it comes along. This is a learning process and I will need constant reminders that junk mail can be dropped in the trash the same day it arrives instead of waiting until ‘someday’ to go through it. And if I complete a project before starting a new project, I don’t need all the extra project ‘stuff’ hanging around waiting for me to get finished.
Just sayin’.