Lately, our computer has been acting up. I have had to shut it down using the button on the computer, instead of closing down Windows properly, at least once a day for the past week.

I decided that it is time that I let my husband reinstall the operating system.

He has wanted to do this for some time, but I always protest because I have so much stuff on the hard drive and I don’t want to deal with backing it all up.

Yes, I should have it backed up anyway. And I could lose my data anyway when the computer crashes. But I still don’t want to deal with it.

Imagine a giant, three-car garage, filled to the top with boxes of stuff. Some boxes are labeled, but many are just boxes of random, assorted things that you got tired of cluttering up your house, so you threw them all in a box.

Well, my hard drive is the computer version of that garage.

When my desktop gets too cluttered, I throw everything into a new folder, instead of sorting it out.

I could just back it up as is and deal with it later, but I really should take the time to sort it all out into meaningful folders, so I can find things when I need them.

Who knew there was a digital equivalent to cleaning the house that I would dread doing just as much!