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29 minutes ago, Charlie said:

What to do with it? I have started going through the shelves in my late partner's home office space, and I discovered numerous folders of photographs he had taken over the years in places he had visited. I am not interested in the photos, and I don't think anyone in his family would be interested (he was an architect and they are mostly of buildings that caught his eye), so I bit the bullet and threw all the folders in the trash--the trash bin was so heavy I couldn't lift it, and had to wheel it to the curb. I feel slightly guilty for throwing it away, but someone would have to do it eventually because I don't know what anyone else would do with it. Next I have to start on all the pages he cut out of magazines and newspapers.

When I was younger, I saved all of that thinking it would make it easier for my biographer. Alas, it doesn’t look like I’ll have a biographer and I have little inclination to go back and look at my own stuff. There must be many landfills full of people’s junk, dead and alive. 

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6 hours ago, Charlie said:

What to do with it? I have started going through the shelves in my late partner's home office space, and I discovered numerous folders of photographs he had taken over the years in places he had visited. I am not interested in the photos, and I don't think anyone in his family would be interested (he was an architect and they are mostly of buildings that caught his eye), so I bit the bullet and threw all the folders in the trash--the trash bin was so heavy I couldn't lift it, and had to wheel it to the curb. I feel slightly guilty for throwing it away, but someone would have to do it eventually because I don't know what anyone else would do with it. Next I have to start on all the pages he cut out of magazines and newspapers.

You could contact a company that can scan all the photographs and store them on the cloud. 

But, personally, I would just dispose of them.  The feeling of freedom from clutter could outweigh the other feelings of indecision.  As for newspapers and magazines, I'm sure the local library already has them all scanned if you ever need to lookup those articles again.

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