I'm in this post and I don't like it.
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By reading this comment you are now cursed:
One week after you choose to dispose of any of those cables, you will need one of them.
Joke's on you, I already had that curse. Now, I have tons of boxes of cables, all clearly labeled.
If eBay didn't suck so bad, I'd say just use that as your "box"
Heck, maybe what we really need is an online exchange. Mail in a cable, get a cable of your choice in return. So when you need some rare cable you've got it on demand... Just 5 days and $6 in shipping. Aww fuck it.
When I buy anything electrical in the UK, they often give you a UK plug, a European Plug and an American plug. Over time, or if you use a lot of electric things at work, you can end up with a huge pile of plugs that don't work in your own country.
If they do similar elsewhere, we could definitely swap.
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Emotional support cables
Over my cold dead body
Well I start and stop hobbies on a whim, needing a random cable from my (super well organized) cable box does come in handy.
Just wish I could finish a project now and then :D
I felt so called out by this that I just threw away a box of cables. Thank you for giving me the push I needed to wait hold on I think I still need those USB-A cables for that old printer I've got in storage so I should dig those out of the trash real quick
Had mine since '89
damn. that's a vaporwave album right there
Nah. Composite audio/video cables and speaker jacks for old hts sets
In Australian accent:
"That's not a box... that's a box"
Gestures to my stacks of old computer equipment
"Well, of course I know him. He's me."
Goddamnit I have to get rid of my box of cables
Don't. The gremlins are always watching. That will be the moment when they strike.
That reminds me. I've had a box of cables since '22 and every time I go through it I think, "damn, I really need to organize this and get rid of some shit". And then I shove it into my closet out of sight and out of mind until the next time I need something from within it.
Just use toilet paper rolls to keep them neat and seperated. You could even label each roll if you wanted to go all out.
It's nothing huge, but it's gonna make finding them so much easier.
I still have my Laplink cable.