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I digitized a bunch of stuff as well, and was very pleased with it. Objects were keys to memories for me, so throwing away the object felt like throwing away the memory. Looking through the photos makes me really happy, and I don't miss not having the physical objects.

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Digitizing was probably my favorite part of this process. I actually look at my photos a lot more now than I ever did before when they were stuck in photo albums because they're in folders in my computer now. And the same goes for my old papers, cards, etc. It's not that I look at these items very often now, but I never looked at them before.

With photos and paper based mementos, I found the physical copies just sat in a box, and were (almost) never looked at.

Scanned copies are a lot easier to 'take out' and browse through.

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