Downsizing

2019 was the year of downsizing.  We moved from a 3000 sq.ft. house sitting on a wooded acre in the country to a 1500 sq.ft. on a standard suburban lot.  Downsizing has required a complete change in thought and perspective.  The next goal is that when the 2012 Insight is ready to go to Rawhide we will have only one car.  This change will require careful and detailed calendar management for me and my wife.  We’ve agreed to give it a six month trial run before we make the final decision.
 
My perspective on many aspects of life is changing.  Last week I went to post my blog for 1-8-20, slipped the jump drive into its slot and all my blog files were gone.  I have been using jump drives for document storage for years.  I thought they lasted forever.  They don’t.  I researched how to recover files and nothing worked.  I learned that sometimes they faiall l – it happens.  A few days later I was working on my radio program and went to retrieve the files from another jump drive.  Guess what – gone -  all gone.  I threw it away.  I panicked, how was I going to store documents and other files?  My friend relies exclusively on the cloud.  With a little research I learned that Amazon offers prime members 5g cloud storage free and unlimited storage for about $12 a year.

Before making the move to the cloud my downsizing view of life kicked in.  I asked myself, why did I save all those blogs and why did I save those radio programs.  Once published or on the air I never looked at them.  I decided downsizing was needed I would stop saving blog posts and radio shows immediately.  I could store current files on my laptop and remove them once a month.
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I will delay using the cloud, at least for now.  Let me know if you use the cloud and what you store.