Thank you for these tips. I found that of the many boxes of craft items I gave away I only missed one item and it is still available if I need to re purchaser it. When I had too many craft items I just got overwhelmed and stalled out on making anything. Less really is better.
Thanks Sarah 👍 Streaming services are good for minimalist me. So I donated the 5 dvds I had to the library and sold the dvd player and put the old TV to be recycled! I passed on CDs to someone who wanted them and donated the CD player. It's surprising how much space they took up. Enjoyed the bonus of clear space ever since.
Thank you Sarah. Over the years we have gotten rid of a lot of things throughout our home and we are starting to revaluate. Hopefully get rid of more. Sending hugs ❤
Oh boy, that's a very loaded category! Thank goodness I don't have any hobbies because my partner has them in every corner of the home already. My biggest struggle is getting rid of tech because some of it has photos and videos that haven't been transferred or backed up yet and then there's the whole process of wiping everything and taking it to the proper place for disposal.
Just a word to the wise re: streaming and online-based services. Anything where you don't own either the physical media or an unencrypted (non-DRM) file on your own hard-drive is not yours. You may have paid for it and the contract may say that you bought "lifetime access" but it can still go away at any time. How sure are you that service will still exist in 10 years? Qnd even if it does still exist, companies like Amazon have deleted books from people's Kindle before. Yes, they gave people a refund, but the book was gone. The backstory was that Amazon had lost the rights to that book. Now, if a normal publisher loses the rights to a certain book, they can't print any new copies. In the digital world, it means stuff will disappear from your devices, even if you downloaded it. Now, for a lot of media you might be fine with that. We used to listen to music on the radio without buying all of it on vinyl or CD. Or borrow a book from the library and give it back once we were finished reading. But for those media which you really enjoy and want to keep forever, just having bought access via some streaming service is not enough. You need at least some non-DRM file that you can play with independent player software (.mp4, .mp3, .epub,...) on your own hard-drive. Anything where it's just in copyright encrypted form and only accessible inside the proprietary app of the service (eg. on the Kindle, in your Netflix app, in the Prime app,...) is NOT yours. Even if you "bought" it.
These are all good points, but at least for me, I'm not someone who generally re-reads or re-watches things, so owning something forever is not necessarily a concern. Even putting something on a hard drive is not a guarantee because I have had hard drives fail over time.
Thank you for these tips. I found that of the many boxes of craft items I gave away I only missed one item and it is still available if I need to re purchaser it. When I had too many craft items I just got overwhelmed and stalled out on making anything. Less really is better.
I completely understand that!
Thanks Sarah 👍 Streaming services are good for minimalist me. So I donated the 5 dvds I had to the library and sold the dvd player and put the old TV to be recycled! I passed on CDs to someone who wanted them and donated the CD player. It's surprising how much space they took up. Enjoyed the bonus of clear space ever since.
I'm so glad, Sandra! They help us a lot too!
Thank you Sarah. Over the years we have gotten rid of a lot of things throughout our home and we are starting to revaluate. Hopefully get rid of more. Sending hugs ❤
Sending hugs back, Cathy!
Oh boy, that's a very loaded category! Thank goodness I don't have any hobbies because my partner has them in every corner of the home already. My biggest struggle is getting rid of tech because some of it has photos and videos that haven't been transferred or backed up yet and then there's the whole process of wiping everything and taking it to the proper place for disposal.
That is a very time consuming process with photos and video footage!
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Just a word to the wise re: streaming and online-based services. Anything where you don't own either the physical media or an unencrypted (non-DRM) file on your own hard-drive is not yours. You may have paid for it and the contract may say that you bought "lifetime access" but it can still go away at any time. How sure are you that service will still exist in 10 years? Qnd even if it does still exist, companies like Amazon have deleted books from people's Kindle before. Yes, they gave people a refund, but the book was gone. The backstory was that Amazon had lost the rights to that book. Now, if a normal publisher loses the rights to a certain book, they can't print any new copies. In the digital world, it means stuff will disappear from your devices, even if you downloaded it.
Now, for a lot of media you might be fine with that. We used to listen to music on the radio without buying all of it on vinyl or CD. Or borrow a book from the library and give it back once we were finished reading. But for those media which you really enjoy and want to keep forever, just having bought access via some streaming service is not enough. You need at least some non-DRM file that you can play with independent player software (.mp4, .mp3, .epub,...) on your own hard-drive. Anything where it's just in copyright encrypted form and only accessible inside the proprietary app of the service (eg. on the Kindle, in your Netflix app, in the Prime app,...) is NOT yours. Even if you "bought" it.
These are all good points, but at least for me, I'm not someone who generally re-reads or re-watches things, so owning something forever is not necessarily a concern. Even putting something on a hard drive is not a guarantee because I have had hard drives fail over time.