09/18/2026
Want to Do Something About Your Digital Footprint? Start Deleting.
Before you buy another cloud storage upgrade, take a look at what you're actually storing. We'd bet there's a LOT you don't need.
Try this little digital decluttering challenge:
Start with your oldest emails. Delete what you no longer need.
Unsubscribe from the lists you stopped reading years ago. Then search for that sender and delete the backlog.
Go through your oldest photos. Delete duplicates, blurry shots, screenshots and photos you have absolutely no reason to keep.
Tackle your videos.Those can take up a surprising amount of storage.
Clean out your cloud storage. Old downloads, duplicate documents and files from five years ago probably don't need to come with you into the future.
Empty your trash and “Recently Deleted” folders. Otherwise, some of that clutter is still hanging around.
And here's the hardest part: Be ruthless.
We tend to think that if something is digital, it doesn't really matter if we keep it. But digital clutter is still clutter. You don't have to clean up your entire digital life in one weekend. Pick one category, start with the oldest, and see how much you can let go.
And if you're looking at 50,000 photos thinking, “Absolutely not. I'm calling someone...”
That's what we're here for.