Digital Hoarding

Ever watch the show "Hoarders"? I've never watched it myself, but I have heard of some pretty crazy stories about the people on the show and the things they hoard. But seriously, isn't everyone a hoarder of one type or another? Admit it. I'll bet if you really think about it, you're a hoarder of something.

I recently came to the conclusion that I hoard digital photos. I always figured since they're digital and easily stored on the computer that it was no big deal, until I started going on photo shoots with my daughter.

Now my computer runs sluggishly because of the hundreds of accumulated digital photos. I purchased a new camera before my vacation last fall and saved all the photos in raw format. Once I got home and uploaded them onto my computer I realized that I couldn't view them easily. So I began the long, tedious work of converting them into .JPG format.

It wasn't until over halfway through converting these files that I realized some of them were not very high quality. So, once again I began the tedious work of converting them into .TIFF format. I finished about a month ago. Whew! However, my computer was dragging from all the extra bytes I fed it.

Next I decided to burn all of my photos onto CDs and/or DVDs in order to preserve them. Then I copied them onto my external hard drive for a backup copy just in case my CDs/DVDs suffered a scratch or went bad on me in some way, shape or form, and I would lose my precious photos.

After copying the photos, I wondered, "Did I really need every single one of those photos?" I mean, seriously, how many pictures did I need of the apple tree?!? At this moment, I realized that I had to confess, "Hello, my name is Linda, and I am a hoarder; a hoarder of digital photos."

I tried to rationalize some of these photos, even the blurry ones, like the one of my grandson, Zeek, below. I mean, how cute is that? Of course I'm going to save it!!

Now maybe keeping this photo is a bad idea, and since I cannot resist, this contributes to my hoarding problem. In an upcoming post, I'll cover solutions to how I'll overcome this particular hoarding problem.


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