Curation means deleting things too. And I do a lot of that. Not only does it make it much easier to find stuff, but I can keep my entire image collection on an SD card in my phone (around 60 GB of photos over the last 10 years). I frequently browse through my photo collection, and I love that it's all local.
There's no point keeping that blurry photo of a crappy sunset, or 25 near-identical copies of the same thing. I delete ruthlessly, and keep 1-3 photos of each subject.
Importantly, when I look back at my photos, the ones I'm most interested in are the ones with people in them, especially after a sibling was killed in an accident. I keep nearly all of those (except near duplicates). So although I take lots of photos of things, I don't care that much about them, and only keep the good ones.
There's no point keeping that blurry photo of a crappy sunset, or 25 near-identical copies of the same thing. I delete ruthlessly, and keep 1-3 photos of each subject.
Importantly, when I look back at my photos, the ones I'm most interested in are the ones with people in them, especially after a sibling was killed in an accident. I keep nearly all of those (except near duplicates). So although I take lots of photos of things, I don't care that much about them, and only keep the good ones.