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January 10, 2020 02:04 pm
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Admit It: You Have a Box of Cords You'll Never, Ever Use Again
What's this one for? Who knows! Electronic gadgets fade away but their cables live on forever at home. From a report: There's a box that moved with Sarah Loveless and her husband from San Diego to Charleston, S.C., from Charleston to Dallas and from Dallas to Richland, Wash. The box, never unpacked, went into a closet or the garage each time. Contents: 20 to 30 electronics cords. "The box was just always a part of our life," says Ms. Loveless, 38. "It wasn't useful to us. We weren't doing anything with it except for moving it." Four years ago, they sorted through the box, paired a handful of cords with the respective devices and got rid of the rest. It was like having a weight lifted, she says and remembers thinking: "This isn't going to happen again. Why would we keep cords we don't need?" Then last summer, going through the garage, Ms. Loveless noticed a bag. "There is another collection of cords," she says. "I was just kind of, like, I thought we handled this. I thought this was in the past." For as long as consumer electronics have existed, people have had a hard time ditching the old cords to expired and outdated devices. The TV sets, computers, printers, camcorders, VCRs, DVD players, MiniDisc players, BlackBerrys and iPods that the cords belonged to may not even be in their owner's possession. But the cords survive, squirreled away in drawers and bags and boxes. They might be useful someday, people tell themselves, even if some cords' purposes are lost to history. Henry Hall, of Bradenton, Fla., recalls going through his girlfriend's stuff after it came off the moving truck when she moved in with him in 2011. "There's this filing cabinet," says Mr. Hall, 34, a freelance artist who remembers her telling him: "That's just cords that I haven't sorted through."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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