House of Pink

I admit it.  I hoard things. 

I am not  yet bad enough to star on Oprah (anyone watch it yesterday?) and have a hoard of people come through my house and empty it of tonnes of “stuff” (although wouldn’t that be lovely!). 

I have boxes of “stuff” stored in my wardrobe and out in the shed, which I haven’t bothered sorting through since I moved.  It’s the kind of stuff that doesn’t ‘belong’.  You know…it doesn’t have its own little place, so it just stays in the boxes until I have a use for them…which I probably never will, yet I can’t bear to throw it out.  Stuff like papers.  I keep stuff for the sentimental value “Oh…that scribble on that scrap piece of paper…I remember when I drew that…I was on the phone to so & so, and that was the day after DD’s birthday….I’d better keep that”.  Yes…I really am that bad *blush*.

Tonight, I have been sorting out my hard drive *GULP*!  I have just gone through each and every folder, etc (in My Pictures) and deleted well over 600 images!  I had to…I was running out of room, lol.  You see, I also hoard photos.  I keep all those OOF (out of focus), blurred, dark, double/tripple chinned photos…well…I used to anyway!  My reasoning?  What if I delete that photo of “so & so”, and something happens to them?  I would be wishing I kept that photo.  Well…it’s gone.  They’re ALL gone!  I had to do it quickly though, lol.  I would select the photo/s which were no good and quickly hit delete before I could think it over.  I have also emptied the recycle bin – so they’re GONE!  (Unless I try to recover them, but I have no idea how to do that, so what’s done is done now!!!).  I was a ruthless bitch, lol.

I was even ruthless enough to clean out Lightroom (an Adobe program used to process RAW files).  I deleted my catalogues, as it was getting a bit messy in there, and this way I thought I could start again and keep it all fresh and clean, removing images as I went.  I think I stuffed up.  When I deleted them, it said they would only be deleted from Lightroom, NOT the disk (HDD), but now I can’t find them ANYWHERE!!  Hopefully someone can come to my rescue!  I have tried opening up the backup folders of my catalogues, but the images won’t load in LR!  Oh dear!  I will never delete another photo again……..