True Tales of Tech Hoarding 268
Recently some member of my household forced me to watch several episodes of A&E's Hoarders. This led to several *ahem* discussions about hoarding tendencies and the closet of cables, wires, boxes and parts in my basement. But I'm not doing bad compared to some of these tech hoarders. My favorite is the guy using a stack of 9 VA rack machines as an end table.
AtariAge (Score:5, Informative)
You think that's bad, you should check out some of the collections [atariage.com] at AtariAge. People who have a dozen spare 800XLs "just in case". I've got to say this [atariage.com] shit is impressive. This [atariage.com] too.
Re:I painfully threw away three P.C.s just this we (Score:5, Informative)
Here are some links:
news article [bby.com]
recycle information [bestbuy.com]
Also note that if it has a screen they will charge you $10 to recycle it; however they give you a $10 gift card to use in the store as well - so it is a wash.
Just mention "shoes" (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Partial Reinforcement (Score:1, Informative)
No it's not valid because they forget the greater majority of time that the stuff is in the way and of no use. Saving a large pile of junk just to hope to have a use for it isn't very useful. That's how these hoarders get started. As the piles grow, they can't find anything so they get new stuff, even if it's the same. I helped a friend try to end hoarding. In the end we found they owned several of the same thing just because the others were at the bottom of a pile.
Re:I painfully threw away three P.C.s just this we (Score:3, Informative)
be sure to salvage the strong magnets out of there as well. they're very useful. i took the two magnets from an old harddrive and used them to make a super strong money clip. it can securely hold 25 bills folded in half (50 layers!)
Re:Different direction (Score:2, Informative)
That's Tolkien Ring.