Anyone had a hardware purge?

[Gorankar]

Just curious, at one point in 2010 I went to put an old vid card and monitor in a closet, and realized it was full, so I went to a second closet, and it was full as well. Two closets full of PC parts, some of it dating back to the 286 era, all of it obsolete. I was wondering if anyone else has had a similar issue? You just kept putting of in a corner or closet or in storage and really have no earthly use for it, but have not sold, trashed, or given it away.

I usually put the stuff up, figuring to keep it as a backup until I am sure the new stuff replacing it proves reliable, and then maybe resell the parts later. Only issue was I seldom got around to selling the parts. I did some mental calculating and realize that all that crap was prolly close to $40K when new. I put it on Craigslist and sold as much as I could of it for around $1k total and threw the rest away. I was reminded of it when I was going through my Craigslist ads to delete the older ones.

 

[swatbat]

Every few years I trash my spare stuff. I've also gotten better at giving away old stuff before it is worthless. I had a dual core toughbook that I was going to use as a car diag machine that wouldn't work with the odb scanner for some reason. Gave it to my brother to use as a notebook. Gave my stepfather my core 2 hp elite book that I had used as a linux test bed as it was better than his notebook and I had better ones(put windows 7 back on it and upgraded the ram). I've given away my spare monitors and whatnot as well.

Need to go through and throw a bunch of stuff away again.

 

[PTNL]

If you can't sell the stuff, check around for local charities and electronics recyclers that can either refurb or properly dispose of old electronics. If your employer also does a periodic purge of electronics to a removal company, then ask them if they wouldn't mind you adding some stuff to their pile.