{"id":274,"date":"2013-05-21T15:50:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stathiskanterakis.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2013-05-21T15:50:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:50:31","slug":"your-physical-posessions-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/21\/your-physical-posessions-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Your physical posessions, in the cloud!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entrepreneur inside me awakes from time to time and won&#8217;t leave me alone..<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking of ways to help people get rid of things they hoard. The impulse of collecting stuff &#8220;in case of need in the future&#8221; to me is psychological condition with little connection to reality. Rationally, the value of thousands of books, kitchenware and product packaging does not explain the cost of renting or owning a larger living space to store them, move them and maintain them (and the mental burden associated with those tasks).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve come up with the idea of having objects &#8220;expire&#8221; after a certain period (much like food) to make it easier for me to get rid of stuff for which I have an emotional attachment but are no longer &#8220;relevant&#8221; (like a jumper given to me by an ex, or my first ever mobile phone).<\/p>\n<p>But what if there was a local &#8220;service&#8221; that would agree to take this stuff, catalogue it for you, store it and mail you back anything you &#8220;needed&#8221;? What if you could even have access to other people&#8217;s stuff? What if you could get notified in case somebody wanted to rent or buy your things? Would you pay for such a service?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/10\/opinion\/sunday\/living-with-less-a-lot-less.html?pagewanted=all&#038;_r=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/03\/10\/sunday-review\/10NOTHING\/10NOTHING-articleLarge-v2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entrepreneur inside me awakes from time to time and won&#8217;t leave me alone.. Lately I&#8217;ve been thinking of ways to help people get rid of things they hoard. The impulse of collecting stuff &#8220;in case of need in the future&#8221; to me is psychological condition with little connection to reality. Rationally, the value of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/21\/your-physical-posessions-in-the-cloud\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your physical posessions, in the cloud!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","tag-start-up-ideas","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}