With spring just having started, I decided to do a little cleaning, and so I've formatted my computer, all my backups, and re-installed Windows 7. I'm starting over from scratch.
Uhm. OK. Not THAT drastic
What I did do was split up my media library (books, music, movies, games) into a part which contains stuff I have actually used, and another part that contains all the rest. Regarding books, I've deleted all freebees I've owned for years but not read, and split off all of my PD books to their own library.
I'm not going to buy any new media any longer, except when it moves straight to a top spot on my "to use" list, and the media I already have but haven't used yet will be considered first, before buying anything new.
For example, I really want to play Pillars of Eternity (released 26-03-2015), but my 6.5 year old computer (barely) meets the minimum system requirements. The CPU is underpowered, just meeting minimum, and the rest of the parts do meet the minimum requirements, but not the recommended ones. Personally, I've always used the recommended specs as a minimum, as when using the REAL minimum, the game will boot... but that's about it
A new computer is slated to be built somewhere in the 6 months after Windows 10 releases, and it'll probably have the power to run PoE multiple times at once. Waiting will also bring down the price of the game, some patches will probably be realeased, and it won't be too hard to wait, because I have multiple games on my To (Re)Play list.
To some extend, I think it was more fun to own something, back in the days of real books, real games in boxes, and real CD's, just because of the fact that you *couldn't* have everything: it was too expensive, and it took up too much space. Because of that, it took some serious consideration and research if you wanted to buy something new.
Now that everything is digital, with a lot of media dirt-cheap and only taking up hard drive space (which is also dirt-cheap), I sometimes feel it's just becoming a chore to keep it all organized instead of a pleasure to own it.
Maybe I'm just nostalgic or something.