Always thought digital photo storage was basically free until I did the math

I was cleaning out my phone last week and realized I have something like 14,000 photos going back to 2016. Google told me I'm using 65GB just on pictures and videos. That got me thinking about all the cloud subscriptions I pay for - iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox. Add it up and I'm spending $22 a month just to keep my digital junk around. That's $264 a year for stuff I rarely scroll through. Anyone else feel like they're paying rent on their own memories?

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grant.nina9h ago

The 65GB number really hit me because that's basically one physical shoebox of prints, but I'm paying rent on it every month like it's a storage unit. I started doing the same math last spring when I realized my Google Photos backup has photos I literally forgot existed from a vacation in 2017. So now I just delete the blurry ones and screenshots right away, keeps the cloud bills down and makes the good ones easier to find.

nancy5244h ago

Delete as you go is the only way, otherwise you're basically paying Adobe rent for a blurry photo of your own thumb.