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The one time you decide to do the right thing, that cable you threw out? You’ll need that in almost exactly a week. Somehow it’s been in the box for 4 years, but now it’s needed.
As a classic example, I needed a power cable just a month after I threw them all out, because “everything comes with it anyway!”
Labelled ziplock bags = the best for cables
wrap them and tuck them in an empty roll of toilet paper, it is also a good trick
I don’t have enough empty TP tubes
Sounds like you’re not trying hard enough.
I’ve already got IBS, what else can I do? Have fewer cables? No, thank you.
And yet when people need some obscure connector, they ask me and I have it. Amazon also has it (and it doesn’t cost much) but that’s beside the point.
This is what finally got me to cut down. I realized any given cable I was saving can be had for pennies if I ever needed to buy one again. Which I won’t.
But I still have a lot.
The one at Amazon is junk though. The one you have was made by folks in San Antonio, who know what salsa’s all about.
I mean cables are indeed very valuable in just scrap.
My dad worked in it and we had a 50 gallon drum full of all kinds of cables. Not only did we always have the type of cable we needed but if I ever needed $100 in an emergency I’d just fill a box and head to the local scrapyard.
You’ll get even more money if you remove the insulation first.
How big was this box you were filling?
This is a close as I can find
I literally have several of those
Next question: where is this scrapyard
You should be able to search your local scrapyard and find the price by weight online.
All I’ve ever found are places advertising that they don’t charge for e-waste, which is why I asked.
Apologies friend. I can’t tell you where your local scrapyard is or if there’s even one close to you.
I live in a small-ish town and our local scrapyard is right off one of the main roads through town.
I didn’t ask about my scrapyard, I asked about yours.
SCART (Peritel) cable - copper, plastics (organic polymers), traces of gold - Europe - late XX century - on loan from the Picard foundation
As an old coot I had boxes of various cable, I gave most of them to local thrift stores. But I kept one of each, in case of, (black, white, short, long) AC power cable, a VGA, RCA, DVI, TOS, serial, S-VHS, etc
IN CASE OF!!! until next round :)
You won’t need them until you part ways with the last one. Then you will need it within a week.
They are really valuable! It’s at least $20 per cable if you need to purchase one. Good thing we have 1000 in the garage.
I just sent this to all my fam and most of my friends
I have all the cables
I recently moved and I threw away/e-cycled so. much. extra. PC shit. I probably still have enough spare parts to build 4 or 5 PCs though. Sigh.
edit: Pic. I don’t have a problem. This is less than half what I used to keep! And I might need some of this stuff to repair 386’s after the apocalypse.
VATS engage “i must raid the ruins for a replacement scuzzi cable”
Dad always knows
Burned myself a dozen times in life by culling the cable herd.
“FUCK ME. Why can I only find 2 RCA jumpers? There were 20 in here last year!”
I have a very organized system:
1 bin for USB type chargers
1 bin for computer cables
1 bin of cables that I will never get rid of ever, I might need them
