Do you have a paperwork file of things going back decades? Maybe snippets you think one day you’ll get round to reading but never have? It’s probably time to send it to the big recycling centre in the sky. If you really needed it you would have read it by now. More often than not, when the time comes to use the information you have stored away for all that time, you will have forgotten that you have it stored and will seek the information elsewhere.  How many old articles do you have archived about topics that you would go straight to the internet to research?