Clearly there is a generational issue: older people tend to collect things, such as photographs, books, recordings, sheet music, maps,etc. whereas younger people don’t need to, because all of these things can be sourced digitally now, and either stored or deleted after use. The sad part of the disposable culture is that there is no incentive to revere, treasure or revisit such stuff, and once deleted it tends to be forgotten and regarded as of no value. I’m a hopeless collector of all those things, but I can understand the modern view - why bother, when it all ends up in a skip bound for landfill when you die? I guess it’s my cheerfulness that keeps me going.