In the final minutes of New Year’s Eve before our family and friends began to arrive at our home to celebrate the new year, I declared digital bankruptcy. 

Since a bankruptcy is designed to relieve someone of their financial debts, it was time for me to do that with most of my digital debts.

Over the last few weeks, I have been preparing to get rid of most of my digital debts. These digital debts were nearly all my own making, so I only had myself to blame. But to blame wasn’t my intention. Nor was it to sit with each piece of digital clutter and determine what I was going to do with it. The time for that had passed. I resolved (or removed) many of these digital debts before the last day of the year, but when it came down to it, I was going to trash it one fell swoop.