Cheap pictures and storage is solving this issue for us. We don't even have a scanner now; I just take pictures with my phone. (This works great for most art and big writing; I'm hoping by the time we get to smaller writing she 'll be typing important stuff or keeping random poetry in a nice journal anyway). It's still a hard choice sometimes as I'm cleaning but a great pressure valve wink I keep more than enough and will have to purge, but tg for iPhones and excessive GBs of storage!