Comments on: The overwhelming detritus of life…

By: Kevin in WI

Kevin in WI — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:58:58 +0000

I believe that Mac is now officially a vintage collectible.

By: CosmicConservative

CosmicConservative — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:41:39 +0000

What’s funny is that I feel like I was pretty brutal, but I still have three huge and one medium sized box full of stuff that I’m going to hang onto until we move, and then decide what to do.

Why do I keep an ancient original Macintosh computer? Because I’m sentimental I suppose. Sentimental about electronic junk? I can’t deny it.

By: Yup

Yup — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:28:59 +0000

thanks for the chuckle.

Sounds like a great tax donation for what you can’t sell.

well except for the letters.

Gotta be brutal sometimes and swing the axe.

By: Foobarista

Foobarista — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 06:39:08 +0000

I used to be like this, until I went overseas and learned to live out of whatever I could (relatively) easily lug around on a crowded train and through a train station in China. This taught me to be absolutely brutal in getting rid of stuff.

However, old computer crap (and obsolete tech books, which is sort of the same thing) is the hardest to get rid of, particularly since it was so darn expensive when I bought it. I still have a couple of old 56K modems around, which have been used once or twice in the past ten years.

One thing I refuse to get rid of is my old bootable CD-ROM with DOS 4.22 on it. This has saved my butt several times when I had to rebuild notebooks and PCs after one mishap or another. I can then at least get enough of a FS installed that I can reboot and load the OS installer…

By: CosmicConservative

CosmicConservative — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:27:24 +0000

It’s clean. I vacuumed. Yes, tonight I vacuumed a carpet I couldn’t even see most of a week ago…

Feels nice…

By: CosmicConservative

CosmicConservative — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:08:16 +0000

On the bright side, I have turned the final corner and am in the home stretch. I’ve re-organized and re-located all my current interest stuff, boxed up the stuff I don’t use anymore and can actually see the carpet now. I’ve got some empty boxes and some ancient useless books to get rid of and some random junk to put away, but it looks like I’ll be able to walk from the door to the window now without doing St. Vitas dance. No more stubbing toes on boxes full of rubber mold making material or leaping up in pain when I discover that stegosaurus mini I lost…

By: CosmicConservative

CosmicConservative — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:00:21 +0000

Kevin… indeed. That is stellar advice. I would be a fool not to take it.

Alas. I am a fool.

By: Kevin in WI

Kevin in WI — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:11:27 +0000

Cosmic,
Don’t put it in a storage unit. Determine now what you want to keep, and sell or give away the rest. You’ll b able to use the cash when you move, and you’ll avoid this same post about cleaning out the storage unit 5-10 years from now.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:39:35 +0000

Cosmic, this post truly did make me laugh out loud. Seriously. I guess I’ve been somewhat guilty of such. But, I’m a piker. Obviously.