YOU ARE LYING!! This is just a scheme by hoarding adjacent partners to make decluttering partners believe you need to keep all the cables (in a giant box in the garage).
First rule of old tech/cable boxes is that you never get rid of them (I'll make an exception for power cords unless they are mickey-mouse style). As soon as you *do* get rid of them, I guarantee you you'll need something out of that box.
I was RUTHLESS when I last moved, thanks to lots of encouragement I finally through out my box of cables and stuff I had not needed or used in a decade! A few weeks later... GODS DAMN IT!
Speaking of cables, I was looking for a mini-USB cable in my box of cables a couple days ago, couldn't find one, somehow my wife magic'd one out of thin air? I don't know where it came from, she might be a witch.
I still had a 10 foot long phone plug extension cable in my big box of cables until I finally tossed it. That I'd had since 1992. Turned out that it wasn't bluetooth compatible. Darn it.
Do NOT let my husband hear this. I have convinced him to get rid of 1/100th of the cables he hoards. If he hears that someone used one once? They will never leave my house.
About a year ago I culled my giant box of really old adapters and power cables. Not even a month later I needed at least two of the ones that had been there for at least 15 years. Not sold anywhere anymore 😒
It is unbelievable. You are wasting time and space. Hang all of your cables vertically in doorways and free up the big box for important things like, I don't know, cats.
I actually did that a few months ago too! I had upgraded my GPU, and it needed more power connectors then the old one, so I had to go and get one of the extra cables for my PSU xD
I needed one of those thicker “micro” usb cables to sync a Sixaxis controller a couple days ago and found one in a box of loose wires. And to think I almost donated the whole thing to a thrift store last week! Close call.
I've had a big clean up. Out went the PS2 mouses, the older style telephone jacks, ink jet printers, scanners that never worked and a joystick that plugged in with a serial port.
I do it often enough that I think about just hanging up a pegboard and just organizing my cables that way with labels so I can easily find them without spending 20 mins to find a cable lol.
Happens more often than you think.
I was hooking up my monitor to a new Mac Mini a couple of years ago, and I needed one of the cables that shipped with the monitor — in 2013. I was like... "oh, fuck me" ...said a wish, reached into the box, and what was in the first fistful of old cables but...
Bullshit. No one does that. Everyone knows we rifle through the box of cables, fail to find the specific one we need, and then buy a new one at Best buy even though it was in there somewhere.
In our house it’s called cord ball. When we need to get a cord out of the cord ball, whom ever it’s trying to get the cord untangled, sings: “cord ball, cord ball fun for a girl and a boy.
If you didn't save the waded pile of misc. cables, you would have had to go to the store and be pissed that you didn't save them all in the first place.
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My box of "might be useful someday" bits has never proved to be useful :-(
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Of course you know what happened next.
I'm Charlton Hestoning my AC adapters, ya bastards!
About a year ago I culled my giant box of really old adapters and power cables. Not even a month later I needed at least two of the ones that had been there for at least 15 years. Not sold anywhere anymore 😒
You might have thrown them out tomorrow.
Same with fire-wire, VGA, component, composite,...
Shit, I have a hard time parting with my 300 ohm antenna stuff.
But if it’s true, maybe you can show me how some day?
Yeah, you're right, I don't.
I'm 70, I have a shed full 😜
I also have can of Chock Full of Nuts coffee from 1997....I used that too.
It was not good in 97.... not good now either :)
Still no need for any 10G DAC cables or multi mode LC cables in the last 10 years..
I knew it..
I knew it was possible.
I didn’t know it would happen in my life time.
I was hooking up my monitor to a new Mac Mini a couple of years ago, and I needed one of the cables that shipped with the monitor — in 2013. I was like... "oh, fuck me" ...said a wish, reached into the box, and what was in the first fistful of old cables but...
You won't spread your lies here, Mark.
No one in the history has EVER used a cable from the old cables box.
Surely I would never need another VGA cable 🤔
2 months later I had to buy a new VGA cable!
Never throw out the old cables!!!