I am a compulsive saver of information received. Electronically at least. If I have a hard copy of it, I’m likely to throw it in the bin. But! If you email me something I’m going to bloody file it see.
Terrabytes and terrabytes of Dropbox.
At one point this was completely out of hand. I convinced myself that one day someone was going to be looking for something and I would be able to raise my hand and say ‘I have that filed!’ Literally, I could save the world and be adored.
That New24 2011 article or the BancABC 2014 exchange rate would be dug up and the relief would be palpable.
So far, it’s only my old dad and my lovely man tapping into this extraordinary, somewhat compulsive behaviour of mine. And I am frazzled and out of time and NOT adored by all as expected,
So, screw you all, I’m deleting shit.
then your lovely man wouldnt have to carry bags of your computer equipment around whenever you travel… hard drives of non-essential bumpf…
Bless him, he does have to lug my mobile office around for me. And soon I’ll be adding a satellite dish to it!