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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scrivener of Doom" data-source="post: 7652827" data-attributes="member: 87576"> For about a decade I lived between two countries - Australia and Singapore - and so had things scattered between the two locations. I made a concerted effort about five years ago to try and centralise as much stuff as possible... which worked out well because two years ago my wife and I moved to the Philippines. One of the really big differences with Philippine culture compared to any other culture I am familiar with (not just Western culture) is that everything here gets destroyed really quickly. Things simply aren't valued; even old photos become origami in the hands of (unsupervised) children. As a result, before I moved all my gaming supplies and other books here I built an extra building as part of our compound. I've got about 70 linear metres of shelving lining the walls and I have all of my gaming books and miniatures nicely sorted and ready for use. And, of course, nobody else is allowed in here without me and I have the only keys. Having this "man-cave" with such easy access to all my old stuff - with so much shelving I have plenty of storage space - is perfect for reminiscing and revisiting old stuff. I enjoy doing it, but I also have everything as PDFs and enjoy simply reading old adventures and whatnot on my tablet if I am having trouble sleeping. I don't necessarily feel like something is lost in translation, although I greatly prefer reading PDFs on my tablet to reading them on my laptop. As for old photos, I really don't have any. I've never been a photo person but now that I am married and have a son it's become a bit of a necessity... with Facebook filling the role that photo albums would have filled in my parents' generation, or my generation if I had been married earlier. </blockquote>

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