‘It’ll come in handy’.........

Wren

Wren

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Do you use those words as an excuse to clutter your home up with junk ? I’m not too bad but this morning found a plastic bag at the top of a cupboard full of flexes, plugs etc. don’t have a clue what any of this stuff is for, I really want to bin the lot but, will any of it ‘come in handy’ ? :D

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Wren I've got a bottom drawer in a filing cabinet that has maybe 15 or so misc cables that I have no idea what they fit but I'll be damned if I'll throw them away.......can't never tell when I just might need one. :)
 
Those are some very useful cables Wren, USB, Power leads,
TV Aerial, Digital Audio, that I can see.

Throw them away if you want, but be warned a day or two
after you get rid of them, you will need one, "Sod's Law".

Mike.
 
Mikes right-all handy stuff there.
My cupboards are stuffed full of stuff-including loads of teachers stuff I will never use again.
That was a horrible sentence!!!
 
Yes!

I've been working on fighting that very thing.

I read an article by a woman that was decluttering/downsizing and she gave me the encouragement to get rid of any surplus item that could easily be replaced for less than $20.00.

I'm still working at it but IMO it is good advice so pick a price point that works for you and get started!
 
I have around thirty AC/DC adapters, from old gear that failed. . In fact, that stockpile has come in handy, time and again, as I converted new battery powered gizmos for use with AC power.
 
I threw away a power unit for an old laptop because it
had a dedicated plug that wouldn't fit anything else, I
must have been having a senior moment because I am
an Electician and could have changed it, so I learned
a lesson, to keep strong stuff and get rid of the weaker.
Like Aunt Bea suggests, throw the cheap stuff, but keep
the good.

Mike.
 
Thanks for the replies, meantime a friend called round, she never throws anything away, and was horrified that I was thinking of it ! She’s talked me into keeping them in my shed (for a joke, I’ll probably leave them to her in my will) :rofl:
 
Wren said:
Thanks for the replies, meantime a friend called round, she never throws anything away, and was horrified that I was thinking of it ! She’s talked me into keeping them in my shed (for a joke, I’ll probably leave them to her in my will) :rofl:
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Send all the little might needs to your friend's house and then borrow from her!:):playful::eek:nthego:
 
My daughter's husband (who has passed) was tech support for HP. Kept everything (monitors, hardware, components, software, printers (toner all dried up) & all the cables since he was old enough to know better). They had a storage bay that held most of his 'stuff' & anything his mother had saved for him since birth. They paid $4,000 in 5 years for the bay. None of it could be salvaged for junk. When he passed she canceled her storage bay, loaded up her truck, hauled the contents to a recycling yard & never looked back. You can pick up most cables you need at Goodwill for a song.
 
Wren said:
Do you use those words as an excuse to clutter your home up with junk ? I’m not too bad but this morning found a plastic bag at the top of a cupboard full of flexes, plugs etc. don’t have a clue what any of this stuff is for, I really want to bin the lot but, will any of it ‘come in handy’ ?
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That picture looks like part of a box of similar parts/cables I have in the basement....plus a bunch of old computer parts from systems I've had in the past...and took all the usable parts out of them. A few months back, the power supply in my current desktop began to act up, and I found an old one in my "junk" box, that was compatible. An hour or so later, I was back up and running....and probably saved $100+, and several days without the computer had I taken it to a shop. I've got gobs of tools, etc., that I seldom have a need for, but it is rare that I have to stop in the middle of a project to go get something. When/If we ever have to downsize, and move to an apartment, etc., the kids will have a heyday sorting through our stuff...and the rest will probably wind up in an auction.
 
treeguy64 said:
What song would that be?
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COMMON If you buy something for a song, you buy it for very little money. She was wearing a beautiful hat which she'd picked up for a song in Camden Market. She wore a lot of costume jewellery which she bought for a song off second-hand stalls. Note: You can also say that something goes for a song or is sold for a song, meaning that it is sold very cheaply. In the early nineties their shares went for a song. I know of good, solid, stone-built houses which have been sold by councils for a song. Note: This expression may be a reference to printed song sheets, which were very cheap. Alternatively, it may refer to small amounts of money that passers-by give to someone who is singing in the street. From the free dictionary - Need more?
 
In her later years , my parents' neighbour was driven nuts by her husband who became an obsessive collector of every piece of junk that he found. It became so bad that there was little room in their house for living.

When he died, she asked my father and brother if they would clear the house for her. My father said that they filled 5 "skips" (Dumpsters) with the years of accumulated rubbish.

Mother said that she would have left my father if he had been like that. I'm not quite so bad, though I do collect junk in my workshop and then, every now and again, I clear things out - often reluctantly.
 
My late husband was not the most organized person.
His habit was if he couldn't find something (pliers, measuring tapes,etc.),he would run down to the hardware store and buy one...Our boys,going through his garage,found 7-8 rulers,hammers,electrical tape,we all had a good chuckle.
 
Roadwarrior said:
COMMON If you buy something for a song, you buy it for very little money. She was wearing a beautiful hat which she'd picked up for a song in Camden Market. She wore a lot of costume jewellery which she bought for a song off second-hand stalls. Note: You can also say that something goes for a song or is sold for a song, meaning that it is sold very cheaply. In the early nineties their shares went for a song. I know of good, solid, stone-built houses which have been sold by councils for a song. Note: This expression may be a reference to printed song sheets, which were very cheap. Alternatively, it may refer to small amounts of money that passers-by give to someone who is singing in the street. From the free dictionary - Need more?
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Uh, er, ......... Thanks for clearing that up?
 
We have drawers, cabinets and boxes with various old cables, wires, headphones, etc. There's been times when my husband needed a cable for something and we found it at home. So....don't think we'll be tossing them anytime soon.
 

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