Sorry, I haven’t blogged for a bit (I’m sure you were hanging on my every word). I have been up to my eyes helping clear out some aged relatives’ house. These guys haven’t thrown anything away for years and are now moving to a much smaller place. So between explaining that they probably don’t need 16 rolls or sellotape (yes I know it is nearly Christmas but they don’t actually buy presents anymore) and wondering why they might need the Co-op grocery delivery order book (I know this moved with them from their last house as a) it is for a different town and b) the co-op stopped delivering 30 years ago) I got to worry about clearing out my junk when I get old(er).

Technology has moved on so everything is smaller - my kids won’t have to worry about my vinyl (well maybe some, I haven’t chucked it all yet!) or even CD’s. It will all be on some digital storage and take up very little space. And even more so photos - where to put all the albums of people you don’t know but who are family so you don’t think you should just bin them is a problem that has faced most of us who have lost an older generation. Now you can keep hundreds of pictures on a CD and we don’t have those unwieldy albums anymore. The problem is that now we keep hundreds and (by the time I’m in a home) thousands of pictures. The problem my kids will have when they clear my house will be the same as IT managers have now. Not where do we put it, but which information is useful and how do we access it.