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Spin Zone / Re: A piece of advice
« Last post by Rush on Today at 09:47:18 AM »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.
All that paper stuff you’re talking about, I went through mom’s and came up with about 60 pounds of paper to take to be shredded. Came across some wild stuff there too. She won a class action suit about 20 years ago that would have paid $900 to her estate if she died within 12 months of the date of the settlement. WTF? She didn’t of course. Useless.