When my mother passed away we cleaned out her house and it was amazing what she kept.  Old calendars from 20 years ago, phone books, teaching materials from when she was a special ed teacher many years ago, all kinds of other stuff.  Like an encyclopedia set from the 1970s.  Small jars of something that went solid.  Things full of memories, I'm sure.  Kind of sad.

That made me much more picky when we made our last move.  What to save, what to donate, what to trash.  We had our regular house, a vacation house (we got the vacation house fully furnished!), and a storage unit all to be compressed into one smaller house.  We set a limit of one moving truck for all our stuff including furniture.  Everything else OUT.  A couple of trucks of donations, a couple dumpsters of "who would want this?"  Actually felt pretty good to get rid of all that stuff.  Even after the move I'm ruthless in discarding old "treasures".  Like that chunk of wire that might be useful some day.  That hammer with a chipped handle.  A box of rocks that are kind of pretty.  Still slowly thinning the bins I couldn't decide on before the move.

I agree with so much of what you said that I am about to embark on an old cable-ectomy of my office.
I have dozens of VGA cables, 30 pin apple cables, RCA and Composite cables, scores of USB and Micro USB cables, computer power cords, RS232 cables, parallel printer cables, tons of cat 5 jumper cables, stereo audio cables and cables I don't even recognize any more.  Even if I were to find a use for two or three of them, I don't need hundreds of them cluttering up my drawers and shelves and boxes.

But one thing I'm not allowed to throw away.  My wife has an odd attachment to her '50s era Encyclopedia Britannica.  I counted it up and we have moved them 11 times, unless I forgot a move.

Last week I went through my file cabinets and cleaned out enough old paid bills, credit card statements, bank statements and tons of old health insurance, car insurance, house insurance, flood insurance policies along with hundreds of old warranty cards and more.  I filled up 4 old copy paper boxes and took them to the business I sold where they have a commercial shredding contract.

Several times I went to the garage to thin it out, but I can't identify more than a few pounds of stuff.  It never fails that if I throw anything out, the next week I will need it, even if I hadn't needed it in the past 20 years.  But perhaps I'll give that another try too.

Damn.   That guy shows up in Hell.

Now we have him and Saddam arguing constantly.  Osama Bin Laden keeps keeps complaining he wants his 72 virgins, I keep explaining to him it ain't happening.

And we're all dreading when Hillary finally shows up.

Just tell Osamabama that Hillary is one of his virgins.
He won't ask for any more.

I'm not sad at all about this, but I keep thinking of the lyric:

"Second verse, same as the first".

I go there, under a different screen name, and I get banned on a regular basis
It's funny how they, and others consider me a far-right radical
but people here consider me a Rino, or worse.

And even more covid lies

https://twitter.com/nataliegwinters/status/1791093229485519302

That six foot separation from other people (strangers) was the only thing I liked about the over-reaction to Covid.  I wish we could make that permanent.

Unfortunately Trump can't decline. I do notice Trump has proposed a debate in October on FOXNews moderated by Baer & MacCallum. 

For the CNN debate, Biden will get all the questions ahead of time so he can memorize his answers.

I doubt he has enough functional memory cells for that.  They will feed him the answers through an ear piece.

Edit: Posted too soon.  Old Crow beat me to it.

I don’t know about everyone else but there is some righteous weather going on in America tonight.

That righteous weather moved through here last night.  The light show was fantastic, but it was strangely quiet.
Then I put my hearing aids in.  Wow!  At least we don't have to manually water any plants today.