3 steps to conquer the psychic weight of your iPhone photos
I don't look at them, but I know they're there and I can't stand it.
I’m not going to pretend I’ve solved this problem. I have some solution-esque approaches that seem promising, but I’m opening this week’s topic up for input from you clever readers.
The issue at hand? The 20,000+ photos on my phone.
I think about how I have maybe 100 photos of my entire childhood, and then compare that to the 100 photos I took this week alone of my kids. If there’s any unambiguous indication we live in an age of excess, our photo habit is it.
And yet, it’s so hard to declutter them, isn’t it? They don’t take up physical space so is it reeeeeeally a problem? Each photo holds a memory. Pressing delete on your kid’s face (or the face of someone you love) is painful. It feels like if you delete a photo you are deleting the memory.
But as with all excess, the problem is that when you have too much of something it becomes impossibl…