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I have 30 years of cables and adapters in a box. I needed a cable in that box, it is in my storage unit that is an inconvenient 45 minute round-trip away. I still need that cable weeks later.
The box should never be thrown away or be located further than a short jaunt. Such is the law of the random cables and adapter box.
I regularly go into my cable bin. It's a big ole Rubbermaid that is sort of organized but also not
Even old broken USB cables get kept for electronics projects
I am Smaug, and I will slumber in my mountain atop unfathomable cable riches.
At this point I think that I'm probably safe to get rid of my old cat3 cable, but I'm keeping everything else.
If you need to get rid of a pile of DC power supplies and they're all similar, consider donating them to a stem youth club. I have a huge pike of 12v power supplies with the 5.5-2.1mm plug on them and they work great with breadboard power supplies.
This was me. A few months ago, I threw out a cable I thought was for a 20 year old flipphone that I'll never use again, but it was a charger for something else and I wanted it last week for a relative. Now we need to buy new hardware. Don't do it, kids, horde those cables. Horde them like you don't fancy spending an unnecessary 30 smackers next year.
This is natures way of punishing you for defiling and disrespecting the box.
The Box should always be kept, and respected, lest it bring ruin to your household.
So, so true. And yet my wife questions the merits of my vast attic collection. I shall tell her later how I discovered that the Internet agrees with me.
You never know when you might need a PS/2 to DIN convertor!
Of course you'll never be able to find the one you need in the moment, so will end up ordering one for about £3 from Amazon.
Strangely enough I know exactly where mine is, not least because it was connected to my last but one keyboard for approximately 15 years.
Now my Xbox controller to usb cable, no idea where that is at the minute (it'll be in one of the boxes)
I have several boxes of these that I'll never let go, but I have to admit, I ditched the SCSI cables at one point and have no regrets.
Until a few years ago my workplace still had dozens of BNC networking cards, ISDN routers (bought on the cheap a few months before ADSL took off), and Windows 98 SE licenses.
USB ate SCSI in a similar way to HDMI eating DVI so that one makes total sense.
Not throwing out DVI or even VGA cables. I run in to/test older gear way too often to let them go.
Buying things from thrift stores requires tools to make them work with your stuff.