Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
I am so curious to know what kind of documents someone of her young age has that are not already in digital form besides the photos. And really, she is young and can't have that many paper photos.

In my household I've got scads of paper documents, but they are all ephemeral. I don't need them long term. If we lost them in a fire that would be too bad, but I would live without them.

I suppose we should scan the abstract tied to this property, that's a great historical record that should go to the next owner and a digital copy ensures it will live beyond us.

I've already scanned and and distributed key family photos of ancient relatives so I no longer have the only copies. All,of the rest of the paper photos we have are of me and DH, so those will die with us and that's ok.
I must say I appreciate your attitude: "If we lost them in a fire that would be too bad, but I would live without them."

Sounds like you own that stuff, it doesn't own you.

As for a person her age having so many documents...

I think she is in her early to mid-30s, so not that young. I used to have about 5k to 10k hardcopy photos. I was the "historian" of my group of friends from about 1996 to 2005 (in 2005, I went digital with my camera).

When I became a minimalist I just shred and deleted all the photos. It took a long, long time -- many hours -- because I went through every single one.

Right now, I have a portable file folder about the size of a shoebox with all my important docs in it. I bet half of them could be digitized.