Huge Dilemma (First world problems)

The PSU on my fiber router died the other day, digging through the box of cables revealed a perfect match so I had internet for the few days it took BT to send an engineer (I know - needs openreach to change a power supply) - Figure i've got at least another 5 years of justification out of it now :)

My two year old son took a wee all over my bt router and fried it. Out comes my ye old Netgear and 20 meter cat5 cable to keep going till bt sent a replacement.
 
Keep two of the same with the longest cables. I have to admit I also have a bag of cables which I went through last year. I thought I was being ruthless when I chucked several cables away, but the bag looked exactly the same size as it was before I began. :(

I seem to have built up a small collection of SDR and DDR RAM also. I'm sure I saw a Socket A AMD Athlon CPU too.

I should start a museum. :o
 
I'm terrible for this, but an impending house move is going to force my hand. There's just no way I need 10 spare kettle/ethernet/HDMI etc etc etc cables and moving with them is a bit of an organisational incompetence IMO.

I thought this back in September, they still followed me :cry:
 
I never realised this was a common problem with us tech types.

I've got 2 bags full of old cables, going back to the first PC I had 20+ years ago.

PC Hoarders.
 
Somehow, I do not know its happened but the large plastic size box of cables has got out hand, A grand total of 4 medium plastic tubs full of cables ranging from 1983 upto now is taking up space in the loft. What do you do, be ruthless throw everything and be done with it or some how find a system to wither it down to one box.... Do i really need a serial port cable for printers, a RS232 to LAN... (what on earth i used that for is lost in the mist of times)

I am off for a lie down now.... Cables are such a PITA.
how much copper and gold do you think these cables contain
 
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