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Alex Eisenhut:
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?

nctnico:
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.
Tomorokoshi:
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.
coppercone2:
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...
Tomorokoshi:
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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