The death of a website for packrats – KeepOrToss.org

On April 7, 2010, the first dynamic PHP site I built completely from the ground up, KeepOrToss.org, will cease to exist.

The website was inspired by two friends after helping them move and realizing that they needed a little push to get rid of the junk in their lives that was following them, untouched, from house to house. Packrats and hoarding are even coming into public mainstream with new television shows, but KeepOrToss never really caught on enough to support itself as a community. It did however function very well in giving me a wealth of practice and testing for later website redesigns and other personal sites, such as NovelRank.

As a learning experience it was really successful for 2 years, but as a sustainable website, it failed. Like any good entrepreneur, I learned, I loved, and I let it go when it couldn’t return the favor.  I’m much happier with my latest venture and the thriving community of authors over on NovelRank, so there is always that. Thanks KeepOrToss, and enjoy your life at archive.org.