Write-only memory

I know I need to go through all of those boxes of paper in my apartment. Each box is the product of a kind of mental laziness.

Rather than sort through everything, and make difficult choices about what to keep and what to throw away, it’s so much easier just to sweep it all into a large cardboard box. But sooner or later the day of reckoning arrives, and I need to sort through those boxes and make some hard decisions.

I always find this difficult because there is a finality to throwing something away. Once something is gone, it’s gone.

In order to ease the stress of what would otherwise be a mentally taxing task, I’ve decided to upgrade my terminology. I no longer think in terms of throwing things away.

Instead I have opted to draw upon the gentler language of our modern cyber age. What I am really doing, I now know, is moving things into write-only memory.

2 thoughts on “Write-only memory”

  1. Buy a scanner! I can recommend the Fujitsu Scan Snap series, there are others. Paper in, PDF out, and no more worries about tossing out something valuable. Entire filing cabinets shrink to a Thumb drive. Your apartment reclaims several square feet.

    Added bonus: Make the scanned PDF searchable and document retrieval is easier too.

  2. Oh man, you are dragging me, kicking and screaming, into the 21st Century. I suppose I should be grateful. 😉

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