How often do you file/purge physical copies of music?

I don't purge CDs but I somewhat reluctantly started purging liner notes after I realized I'd lost or damaged too many of them in various moves.

and yeah, definitely get the heavy-duty canvas cases if you're going to do that, the cheap cases also tend to get damaged during moving

I have a few of the book-sized uhaul boxes worth of CDs I probably need to go through and purge. These are CDs that I would need to digitize before thinking of chucking, and the thought of spending hundreds of hours collating these CDs stops me from even starting.

I've been ripping and tagging about 2K CDs over the past few months. The repetitive boredom is so deep that I swear I'll never purchase physical media again.

When we ripped ours we set up a little station in the kitchen, so I’d just rip stuff constantly while making breakfast and dinner.

Don't buy more than 10-20 CDs / tape cassettes per year... they're usually researched and deliberated over beforehand, so minimal culling. Been to lazy to try and sell anything lately. Regular Bandcamp purchases (often digital), keep the clutter to a minimum.

^ This has been my method the last few years. I basically just buy 20-30 CDs a year now.

Do you limit yourself or do you only find that many that you want to own?

(a few months later -- apologies) I use streaming services to narrow down my purchases. I kind of have a loose rule of roughly 70%-or-better ratio to buying the album as a CD or just a handful of songs.