Rookie. My box has been growing since the '90s
Never know when you’re going to need an RJ11 POTS connector!
I just picked up someone else’s box from the roadside trash to add to my collection.
Great idea. Now you have to sneak it into the house without the wife knowing
“Whatcha got there?”
“Nothing, just some cables.”
“More cables? Don’t we have enough? Where did those come from?”
“Nowhere, just found’em”
“Found’em where?”
“Just around”
“Around where?”
“By…some trash.”
“Are you trash picking tech again? I told you, we have enough junk, we don’t need to collect other people’s junk, too!”
Wifegit, is that you?
looks at token ring hardware
You never know.
I know when you’ll need it - 48 hours after you get rid of it!
My wife jokes about this a lot but there’s been at least 5 times over the past few years where I just happened to have the exact cable required in the box.
I do go through it every so often. I’m not hoarding VGA and DVI cables
Just keeping the one VGA cable which does get some use!
The dinky ones that come with monitors or industrial ones the size of a 30 foot garden hose?
They certainly come in all shapes and sizes. Maybe I should get the latter so it could double as rope.
Do you want the type with five BNCs on one end?
Dude, it’s a law of the universe: If you throw away something, you will desperately need it soon after. Everybody knows that.
What if I need my firewire cable this year?!
Removed by mod
I still use firewire. When I eventually can afford to upgrade from my ff800 to a better rme, I will not be getting rid of any of it.
I got a free PC off Craigslist because the motherboard has Firewire built in, and when I dragged that heavy dusty PC into my closet, a box fell to the ground, it was a PCI Firewire card I bought for my Value Village PC… I already had solved the problem earlier and forgot about it…
Listen, some day I will need to hook up a dot matrix printer.
To print data off my Zip drive.
If it’s a differential SCSI printer that only works under OS/2, I think have that somewhere…
When the apocalypse comes I will of course let people use my stores of micro USB and VGA cables, but I’m gonna be real smug about it.
since 2002
Amateur.
2002? Pfft, amateur (and I moved mine across an ocean!)
I think it’s fair that this is posted annually, but I don’t like that it is.
I used to have a collection of cardboard boxes for this stuff, but I organized everything into ziplock bags and then a set of transparent storage drawers, way nicer setup, can actually find things if I need them again.
You want to watch the world burn, huh?
I just threw out my mum’s CRT TV last week (unfortunately was beyond repair, RIP). I decided to keep the SCART cable just in case I might need it some day…
I have had both the need for and the cable for SCART. But no device with a SCART input…
I’m in this article and feel personally attacked!
I felt so called out by this that I just threw away a box of cables. Thank you for giving me the push I needed to wait hold on I think I still need those USB-A cables for that old printer I’ve got in storage so I should dig those out of the trash real quick
No joke. I did keep the cables and some became useful again!
I feel seen.
Emotional support cables
By reading this comment you are now cursed:
One week after you choose to dispose of any of those cables, you will need one of them.
Joke’s on you, I already had that curse. Now, I have tons of boxes of cables, all clearly labeled.
