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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I've had it. I'm shrinkifying my life.
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I've actually started. This weekend I broke down the old desktop computer and removed all the cables. More than half of the stuff that was stored in a closet in the bedroom has already been removed.
Pity that I now need to actually order something to move along... the organ has a cheap 40 inch TV above it, which is used as a sheet music display. I wanted to mount this TV behind the piano now, but not against the wall, as I want the piano setup to be a stand-alone unit. The Ergotron monitor arm that became available after breaking down the old computer is not heavy/big enough for a 40 inch TV, so I had to order a bigger one.
(Don't worry: the home-made piano stand can take the TV. It carries the 46 pounds of the piano at the front, and the TV+Stand will be around 16 kg at the back. The stand itself weighs about 70 pounds, and is made out of solid 28mm beech.)
After finishing the piano setup, I'll move the stuff that's still in the bedroom closet to the computer room. Then everything is cleaned up, and all the stuff that is potientiallly worth something is in the computer room. Then I can get to sorting that out:
- Sell
- Give away
- Throw away
After that is done, the 'big' technology I'll own will be:
- New laptop (2016) and old laptop (2008) as backup
- 1 phone, 1 tablet (to be replaced; 5y/o), 1 Kindle PW
- 1 TV + Blueray player, audio system + a mini-computer as music player.
- 1 piano (with a TV and stick-computer for sheet music; no speakers, as I play with headphones exclusively, as it's an apartment)
That's basically everything regarding the big technology. Apart from that, there will be one bookcase that will hold the few Blu-Rays and hardcover books I still have. I've cleaned those out last year, keeping only the absolute favorites. (I've also given away all of the old games I had, after I've spent a few years re-buying the ones I really wanted at GOG.com during their sales.) The chess and go boards will be put in the closet for when I want/need them.
While going completely minimalist, like "I own nothing that cannot be carried around while traveling", or "How to own 25 things or less", would be a bridge too far, but I think this will nicely shrinkify my life and uncrap the apartment.
edit: I've also re-purposed an older 1TB drive as backup, and ordered a new one as 'originals' companion. That will be used to offload unused, but still important files from the laptop.
Basically those are files that I might need in the future, but don't need to have available all the time, transferring them to the external disks frees up hundreds of gigabytes on the laptop's hard drive. If I need one of these files (which is only rarely), I can search the external drive.
After that, I'll sort the files in \Documents that aren't yet sorted, and then the laptop is cleaned up as well.