Homeless Wires?

BladesP9 asks: "I'm in the process of moving. As such, I have stumbled upon no less than five boxes of wires and various parts. Everything from PS2, SCSI, FireWire, USB and God knows what. Having forgotten all about this stuff I know I will never be needing any of this again as long as I live. Not to mention the roughly 100 boxes of 10 pack 5.25 inch floppy discs. I could just throw all this stuff away, but I am feeling somewhat guilty about that. Is there anywhere I should look to donating this stuff? It doesn't seem like the kind of thing 'Goodwill' would really get use of, but I hate to throw away perfectly good hardware and media if someone could make use of it. I'm looking for suggestions. My wife has given me until the end of the week to find a home for it or I have to take it to the dump."

Comments

Extra stuff?

[TripMaster Monkey]

I'll take it.

While you're at it.

[Seumas]

My wife has given me until the end of the week to find a home for it or I have to take it to the dump.

While you're at it, why don't you take your testicles, too? You don't seem to be using them. You should be ashamed of yourself for admitting such a thing in public. You don't bring home money? You don't run your own house? I bet she made you give up all your cool rock band tee-shirts after she moved in, too?

What a tool.

Re:While you're at it.

[Seumas]

What does being married have to do with frequent sex?

Re:While you're at it.

[bear_phillips]

He said he was married, so I think frequent sex is already out of the picture.

Well ...

[chris462]

This may be obvious, but ... eBay?

Tell them you saw The Virgin Mary or whatever in it and Golden Palace will pay you thousands. ;)

Re:Try Craigslist.

[Seumas]

Of course, the problem with that is that then there are people on Craigslist who will know where you live. If there are any people on the face of the earth that it would be frightening to have hold that information, it's the creepy people on Craigslist. ESPECIALLY the kind of creepy people that will come and pick up free ANYTHING (seriously, you could post free empty bottles of ranch dressing and some weird ass hippy or hillbilly or crankhead will come pick them up).

Re:Try Craigslist.

[Sexy Bern]

AND meet people!

AND converse!

Re:Try Craigslist.

[hab136]

But then you'd have to go outside. What kind of half-assed geek are you?! :P

I'm the half-assed kind. A full-assed geek wouldn't go outside, right.

What I do

[Ratbert42]

First I try to "loan" things like that to other geeks. I know it's hard, but try to find a single geek. He'll probably still have it 5 years from now if you need it back.

Or my other option is to smuggle it into work and put it in / on an empty desk, especially right after someone leaves the company. Problem solved.

Sometimes... just sometimes the wife is right.

[hoggoth]

For all of you posting about how he shouldn't take that attitude from his wife...

Consider that maybe, just maybe, she is right.

My wife has been after me for 12 years and three homes to throw out some old boxes of "important stuff." I put my foot down and refused to do it.

12 years later I finally got around to opening those dusty museums of a ME I'd rather forget!

Bell bottoms? Check.
Sleevless velour "muscle shirt", size extra-small? Check.
300+ floppy disks of Apple II games that I swapped for at fairs, but never actually played. Not once. Check.
Mouldy hammock. Check.
100+ pounds of wires, integrated circuits, resistors and capacitors scavenged from an ancient mainframe being throw out by my university that I was sure to use someday for some project. Check.
One precious copy of Playboy with the one and only Nancy Drew, Pamela Sue Martin? Check.