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What did you get rid of today?
« on: December 30, 2022, 05:04:36 pm »
Hoarding of extra components, unfinished projects, unused test equipment, impulse vintage computing purchases, old technical books, etc... could all be remedied by simply getting rid of them. But it ain't always easy. What if for the new year you wanna clean up a and maybe you need some encouragement from other people's examples?

I got rid of
- 6 textbooks by putting them into a community give one-take one box
- sold headphones on eBay
- donated unused Analog Devices chips to coworkers
- Android tablet to the local goodwill

and I'm planning on getting rid of
- SGI1600SW monitor, as nice as it is I will never have a PC or SGI workstation that can use it

and bringing things to the recycler, like a dead UPS and batteries, useless power extensions with loose sockets.

Maybe it's silly but I need to get into the mood of de-cluttering my place. Anyone else?

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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2022, 05:50:53 pm »
I've got a whole bunch of stuff listed on the local 'craigslist' waiting for a new owner. Still need to list some other stuff as well.

And then there is my give-away box that gets filled up slowly with all kinds of parts. I've put a whole lot of boxes with M3 and M4 slotted head screws in there. I'm not using those because I switched to Torx.

I'm planning to get rid of some old PCs as well. I might still have a couple that are 20+ years old which I stacked in a crawl space under the roof.
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2022, 06:15:19 pm »
I don't understand... get rid of something? I'm having difficulty with trying to understand that concept.

In all seriousness I made some progress on cleaning and various projects. There are several items that eventually I need to collect and list somewhere.

In the meantime I've reduced additions to a few spare parts and various accessories while I work through repair and restoration projects. As these get completed space will clear up to allow better organization. I'm approaching project gridlock.

However, I am collecting specific data books, equipment manuals, and text books for other projects.
 
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2022, 06:30:31 pm »
I kind of find it amusing because its not like we have a over abundance of science in our society. It feel like a bit of a hold out against the idea that you need to hire a service professional to test the temperature in the refrigerator

and in general the amount of planning/effort/time/etc that went into making something. But it does feel good to get rid of a problem like a old car that is powered by a statistical anomaly... nothing feels better then getting rid of a bad car. And really that means selling it to specialists (i.e. island nation). Thats a sign of a good product, you put 3x the expected use on it, and poorer people can still make use of it and even pick it up for you when the severity of the faults overwhelms you.

Also throwing away delapitated things like kitchen hardware. Don't eat the teflon.. that might actually be a problem if you are eating from the 10 years expired non stick plan. And old towels. Damaged safety equipment, molten inductors/transformers, old batteries, nasty capacitors (try opening up a spraque on a band saw some time.....), old stiff wire, degraded power components like MOV...
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2022, 07:09:10 pm »
I had an old car fail. I found a scrap dealer. He took anything that was cars, metal, electronics, etc. I filled the car, cabin and trunk, with boxes and piles of things that had collected over the years. Old printers, car batteries, scrap nails, old plumbing, and a lot of other stuff that I forget now.
 

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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2022, 07:42:19 pm »
I don't understand... get rid of something? I'm having difficulty with trying to understand that concept.

The whole 5S concept.
 

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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2022, 07:50:43 pm »
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2022, 08:13:35 pm »
I don't understand... get rid of something? I'm having difficulty with trying to understand that concept.

The whole 5S concept.

They try to apply 5S where I work. In the prototype / warranty return / test lab.

A: "What is this thing?"
B: "That's a doohickey cabulator! We haven't used this in 5 years! Throw it out!"

some time later...

C: "Where is the doohickey cabulator? A warranty return came in from a customer. They have 10-year-old equipment."
A: "We through it out in the last 5S round."
B: "Let's get a new one! I'll get the purchase order going! How much are they, $10,000?"
 
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2022, 08:27:06 pm »
A Tek 2430 scope, for which I had no use anymore (sold it).
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2022, 09:11:54 pm »
I don't understand... get rid of something? I'm having difficulty with trying to understand that concept.

The whole 5S concept.

They try to apply 5S where I work. In the prototype / warranty return / test lab.

A: "What is this thing?"
B: "That's a doohickey cabulator! We haven't used this in 5 years! Throw it out!"

some time later...

C: "Where is the doohickey cabulator? A warranty return came in from a customer. They have 10-year-old equipment."
A: "We through it out in the last 5S round."
B: "Let's get a new one! I'll get the purchase order going! How much are they, $10,000?"

Yeah. It's supposed to clear your mind. I don't know about that, but it does clear your wallet.
 
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2022, 04:17:02 am »
Hoarding of extra components, unfinished projects, unused test equipment, impulse vintage computing purchases, old technical books, etc... could all be remedied by simply getting rid of them. But it ain't always easy. What if for the new year you wanna clean up a and maybe you need some encouragement from other people's examples?

I got rid of
- 6 textbooks by putting them into a community give one-take one box
- sold headphones on eBay
- donated unused Analog Devices chips to coworkers
- Android tablet to the local goodwill

and I'm planning on getting rid of
- SGI1600SW monitor, as nice as it is I will never have a PC or SGI workstation that can use it

and bringing things to the recycler, like a dead UPS and batteries, useless power extensions with loose sockets.

Maybe it's silly but I need to get into the mood of de-cluttering my place. Anyone else?



I pity the poor person you allowed that android tablet to continue existing for. That’s one thing that should be E-waste immediately 😂
 

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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2022, 04:27:38 am »
zero:  anxiety of "not buying", feel good of "buying", N * "don't have to throw"
 

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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2022, 08:13:51 am »

I'm planning to get rid of some old PCs as well. I might still have a couple that are 20+ years old which I stacked in a crawl space under the roof.

Let me know if you have a 486-Pentium era computer up there.
Probably... but A) I need to think about keeping some parts to resurrect test equipment I have. B) Getting it to Australia will be expensive. What would you be interested in?
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #13 on: December 31, 2022, 10:49:22 am »
Mostly I end up getting rid of money   :-//
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #14 on: December 31, 2022, 12:55:13 pm »
Well I got rid of CoVID... My wife caught it before Christmas, on Christmas day she was on the bed, 1 day later I was and the kid too.

Finally today it started to shown negative on the tests for all of us.
 

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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2023, 12:48:16 am »
Well, it was not today, but "recently" I sent a good deal of ATM networking gear to the recycling. Newbridge and Madge switches that were fiercely expensive twenty years ago are now just ewaste. I sold a couple Fore switches on ebay for very little, just to keep them from the crusher. I still have one or two Sparc Ultra 2 workstations and an HP 735 to get rid of. And some number of (small but heavy) X-terminals and (large and heavy) monitors to send to their fate.

I also have some Intel 460T 100bt switches that I won't ever use, still new in the box.

I might even pay shipping, if I know that $item is going to a good home.
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #16 on: January 02, 2023, 10:38:02 pm »
Today a guy picked up an X-axis power feed from my 1938 Bridgeport mill.  It came off when I retrofitted the mill to CNC in 1996, and has been sitting on the floor under the mill ever since.  I sold the old mill to a guy, but we are still waiting for the ground to get hard enough to get a truck back there to pick it up.  Little by little, some stuff is getting cleared out.  I donated 3 X  1/2" mag tape drives to the Large Scale System Museum in Philadelphia last week.  Also, my Honeywell Alert computer from the X-15 project.
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #17 on: January 02, 2023, 11:14:34 pm »
False guilt. Got rid of it today and every day for years. Keep clearing it out and be free!
 

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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #18 on: January 03, 2023, 02:19:15 am »
Well I got rid of CoVID... My wife caught it before Christmas, on Christmas day she was on the bed, 1 day later I was and the kid too.

Finally today it started to shown negative on the tests for all of us.

So that's how you knew you could get out of bed?  :horse:
 

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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #19 on: January 03, 2023, 02:48:24 pm »
Well I got rid of CoVID... My wife caught it before Christmas, on Christmas day she was on the bed, 1 day later I was and the kid too.

Finally today it started to shown negative on the tests for all of us.
My best friend recently had a similar experience with Covid about a week ago, only one or two days was really bad. On the 4th day of symptoms, it was only mild. She attributes healthy living to why she mostly recovered so quickly.

And that brings me to something everyone should be working to get rid of: an unhealthy diet. Oddly enough, I do not remember any Covid avoidance measures recommending a healthy diet, even though it's pretty well known that a healthy diet helps with immunity in general. There have been quite a few posts in healthy living communities on Facebook about how healthy living (most importantly a healthy diet) let them get through Covid with relatively mild symptoms.
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #20 on: January 03, 2023, 06:30:32 pm »
 :popcorn: something for Dave's Mail Bag ;D
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2023, 05:31:42 pm »
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Oddly enough, I do not remember any Covid avoidance measures recommending a healthy diet, even though it's pretty well known that a healthy diet helps with immunity in general.

Presumably because if you're not already doing that, the chance of a snotty nose isn't going to make you change your lifetime's habit. (Which ignores that some extremely healthy people died from Covid, so it's not a get out of jail card.)
 

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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2023, 06:13:30 pm »
I got rid of an old ThinkPad with a broken backlight. It was at least 12 years old and it wasn't worth my time repairing it.  I had recently received a bag from a charity, asking for clothes and small electrical items. I put it in the bag and left it on my doorstep and they collected it within a day. I don't know whether they'll bother sending it to the third world, or just send it to a recycling centre to salvage precious metals.
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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #23 on: January 05, 2023, 07:19:55 pm »
Turned in my semi today. I was a truck driver. Now I'm a full time cancer patient.
 

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Re: What did you get rid of today?
« Reply #24 on: January 06, 2023, 12:26:23 am »
Ouch, that's a  bummer :(

Is it a pause until you get back on track or a count the days thing?
 
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