I have over 100TB. I hope that will last me for a while. I'm downloading stuff every day. There's so much that the only sure way to sort it out is to put it all in folders based on dates. So I have folders for each year and subfolders for each month. I may eventually need subfolders for each day, but the two levels are enough for now.
WOWZA!!! I admire your Aspergers…although it must create emotional stresses, your focus is admirable Bro 😎 I have a friend who was truly “on tour” with the Dead. For around a decade he was on the road inserted in the Dead circus lugging his recording gear with him. 3 connected living room walls, floor to ceiling are cassettes and digital media titled, dated & chronicled. Thousands of recordings. He follows Billy Strings now, and I thought he’d lose his mind during lockdowns! I ask if he listens to them much & he said he usually doesn’t know where to begin, but yeah sometimes. The Live experience was the flavor not included in his enormous recipe in the library. Anyway, I try to just live a day and moment at a time cuz the experience in life is not an unreachable goal, it’s the here and now. Once I embraced that, much of my anxieties went away. God Bless you Brother!! 😎💕
I only wish my physical possessions were as organized and easy to locate as my computer files. In some ways, my room is like the government warehouse in the Indiana Jones movie: unmarked boxes as far as the eye can see. At least most of my books are on shelves where I can see them. There's stuff here that I've kept since 2nd grade.
Even tho it seems like “clutter”, I’m betting everything has value and you’re just space limited(?). My ex-wife became a mega hoarder while I was overseas dodging bullets…and my homecomings were bittersweet. The difference is she became a shopaholic & threw nothing away…but her stuff wasn’t valuable. No collections involved, no memories; just loved spending all (MY) money. I have 2 storage units in 2 different States. Every item in both was inherited furniture, stuff from overseas etc but all has value and kept for my children OR in case I ever got a home of my own. Which I just have so this year I’m renting a truck, hiring my daughter to help & bringing that stuff to my new place. We get attached to THINGS, which is bad. Consumerism distracts from the important things in life, Ya know?
It's a "15" puzzle. There's room for everything to fit, but not room enough to sort through it. I need a temporary holding area. Then I can get more shelves and sort through things box by box. Many papers can be scanned and tossed. Ones I need to keep can be filed. Many of the books could be scanned and sold. I don't need the books themselves, just the information inside.
Someone once asked us when we would get everything straight. I said hopefully in time for the estate sale. :)
I have over 100TB. I hope that will last me for a while. I'm downloading stuff every day. There's so much that the only sure way to sort it out is to put it all in folders based on dates. So I have folders for each year and subfolders for each month. I may eventually need subfolders for each day, but the two levels are enough for now.
WOWZA!!! I admire your Aspergers…although it must create emotional stresses, your focus is admirable Bro 😎 I have a friend who was truly “on tour” with the Dead. For around a decade he was on the road inserted in the Dead circus lugging his recording gear with him. 3 connected living room walls, floor to ceiling are cassettes and digital media titled, dated & chronicled. Thousands of recordings. He follows Billy Strings now, and I thought he’d lose his mind during lockdowns! I ask if he listens to them much & he said he usually doesn’t know where to begin, but yeah sometimes. The Live experience was the flavor not included in his enormous recipe in the library. Anyway, I try to just live a day and moment at a time cuz the experience in life is not an unreachable goal, it’s the here and now. Once I embraced that, much of my anxieties went away. God Bless you Brother!! 😎💕
I only wish my physical possessions were as organized and easy to locate as my computer files. In some ways, my room is like the government warehouse in the Indiana Jones movie: unmarked boxes as far as the eye can see. At least most of my books are on shelves where I can see them. There's stuff here that I've kept since 2nd grade.
Even tho it seems like “clutter”, I’m betting everything has value and you’re just space limited(?). My ex-wife became a mega hoarder while I was overseas dodging bullets…and my homecomings were bittersweet. The difference is she became a shopaholic & threw nothing away…but her stuff wasn’t valuable. No collections involved, no memories; just loved spending all (MY) money. I have 2 storage units in 2 different States. Every item in both was inherited furniture, stuff from overseas etc but all has value and kept for my children OR in case I ever got a home of my own. Which I just have so this year I’m renting a truck, hiring my daughter to help & bringing that stuff to my new place. We get attached to THINGS, which is bad. Consumerism distracts from the important things in life, Ya know?
It's a "15" puzzle. There's room for everything to fit, but not room enough to sort through it. I need a temporary holding area. Then I can get more shelves and sort through things box by box. Many papers can be scanned and tossed. Ones I need to keep can be filed. Many of the books could be scanned and sold. I don't need the books themselves, just the information inside.
Someone once asked us when we would get everything straight. I said hopefully in time for the estate sale. :)