Cruft just has a way of building up, and then once it’s built up, there’s some sort of weird gravity-like thing going on which causes the cruft pile to grow, and to make you worry about it. What if you lost it? Where will you put it? How should you organize it?
Most of the time one should just get rid of it.
Really, do I need about a half a gig of email? I mean, I don’t have that much time to pop back through it.. And those notes from uni. Am I really going to ever read them again?
Life is too busy to carry around piles of your past.
