Our computer was 12 years old, Dell tower with keyboard, external speakers, monitor, printer, cables running everywhere. I knew it needed replacing so I headed to the Best Buy to get just a tower, the cheapest route & just attach the other old gadgets.

The week prior I had to replace the entire carpet, try living in a place for 17 years & moving everything out , just to carpet & move everything back in. Over half the contents of the place never made it back in. I gave away to neighbors, threw things away & recycled anything that looked recyclable. If you want to cure a hoarder,, make him move everything out & put it back in.

At the Best Buy I decided to downsize the technology too,,, I got a Lenova Yoga laptop (only $60.00 more than the tower alone) & a plug in DVD player from LG.($39.00) My old printer was Wi-Fi capable & was put in a back room out of the way & prints fine. Everything fits on a small coffee table.

My main reason was to preserve my training videos, sport videos, children DVD's. I did not want to lose my training videos to Father Time & I did not want to purchase children videos for my grand kids in the future.

There are hundreds of DVD/videos for me to backup & I have been transferring them to Passports(portable hard drives). This has worked out well. Family photos & videos were transferred already, starting over 25 years ago.

Seeing how much money I had put into children videos in 18 years was a real eye opener. Being able to keep them for the next generation has been worth the cost of the Lenovo.

Thanks for reading.