Anyone a packrat?

I seem to have about every PC cable known to exsist stashed around my home, and lots and lots and lots of them too. Many, many, many duplicates as well. My moto is: "You can never have enough cables."

Drives my wife freakin insane. :D

Kindred!!!!

:) :) :)

Never throw out a cable. You never know when you or a friend will need it....words to live by. When my roommate and I split company, he ended up taking a bunch of my cables. Before that, I never even understood the agony of not having enough power or SCSI cables.

BTW, I also have an old Seagate ESDI drive....something like 25MB, I think.
I'm sure I'll need that.....sometime..........when I start a museum.

Yep, same at my house too. :rolleyes:

Doesn't help though that me AND my b/f are both geek types....

I found myself almost ready to cry when my wife threw out my small pack of 72 pin simms.

I get choked up thinking about it now. *sniffel*:(

But on the bright side she did let me keep my 486 heatsink and fan combo. :D

I'm so bad I have parts lying around at work...at home...in my car...in the garage......at my parents'(who live in South Carolina)...in their garage...I've got an old 386-20 lying around somewhere - worked when I took it down to steal the case.

If anyone wants it let me know and we can try to work something out.

The voices in my head say “keep-it” so I is keepn’ it. Only a fool argues with the voices in their head. Heck the voices know where I live. :eek2:

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Originally posted by PuterGeekGirl
Yep, same at my house too. :rolleyes:

Doesn't help though that me AND my b/f are both geek types....

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I will second that motion.

Hell, I have the box to nearly every pc part I have ever bought :D

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm guess I would definately have to say yes. its how I got my name. I don't throw any computer parts away. I know as soon as I do, I will need it.

I have two wooden stacking box about the size of a box of photocopy paper (5 reams?) packed neatly with all the leads I have acquired or made over the years, I have another box packed full of spare pci and isa cards. No one touches my boxes!

Surprisingly I do use alot of the stuff quite often. The only thing I can't seem to get a stock of are parallel printer leads!

Pack rat NO

Sandford & SOn YES

I have so much crap I loose stuff when I am looking for stuff.

500sqft Garage i rent, 1500sqftStorage area, 5 bdrm house 3 are filled with stuff let not mention the basement.

I just had a dumpster come in last week and filled it to the top with stuff I was forced to turf like plumbing stuff enless monitors etc..



Please dont Ask me if I want anything

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Originally posted by NooNoo
No one touches my boxes!

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I'm sorry to hear... naw, on second thought, I'd better not touch that either. :D

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Originally posted by Jediab
But on the bright side she did let me keep my 486 heatsink and fan combo. :D

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Yay! I still have a DX4-100 combo in my "come in useful box" along with other lesser speeds of 486 CPU...about 10 in all. Now if only i could wave a magic wand and convert them all to XP2600+'s i'd be really happy!! :D

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Originally posted by NooNoo
No one touches my boxes!

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Originally posted by Wayward Clam
I'm sorry to hear... naw, on second thought, I'd better not touch that either. :D

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Hehe..i was gonna quote that too but thought i'd best leave well alone........i mean..errr..well i don't mean that i wouldn't want to...erm...well i don't but...err..not that there's anything wrong with them....i meant...umm..i'm sure they're very nice boxes but...uhhh...shoot, i'll get me coat. :D

speaking of phrases we're not going to touch . . . . . . .

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Originally posted by orange
"come in useful box"

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Is this a directive?
:D :cool: :cool: ;) :)