Please stop treating your ‘Downloads’ folder like a storage drive

Please stop treating your ‘Downloads’ folder like a storage drive – howtogeek.com
I had a horrible habit that I’ve worked really hard to get rid of. I used my “Downloads” storage as a disorganized bin of important and non-important files—and it bit me in the rear when I mistakenly deleted some very important files when I tried flushing the several-gigabyte-sized folder.