Joy of Tech explains the beginnings of a pack rat

[pRON aHOLIC]

Remind you of anyone?

[Spock]

[quote pRON aHOLIC]

Remind you of anyone?

Me ?

[SteveJobs]

I am ONLY like that with tech stuff. I often store cables and such. Usually need one at some time. Other stuff, nah.

[pRON aHOLIC]

[quote Spock][quote pRON aHOLIC]

Remind you of anyone?

Me ?
No, me.

[Lux Interior]

I just put a Power Mac 7600 and a SCSI enclosure with a 1.2 GB HD in it in the attic. It's sitting next to a Performa 475 and a Powerbook 520c.

Why do I do this?

[bfd]

[quote Lux Interior]I just put a Power Mac 7600 and a SCSI enclosure with a 1.2 GB HD in it in the attic. It's sitting next to a Performa 475 and a Powerbook 520c.

Why do I do this?
So some day you can open a computer museum and charge admission?

[Jem]

[quote bfd]So some day you can open a computer museum and charge admission?
OMG! That just hit the nail on the head.

I DO have a problem. Checking in to therapy now...

[ArtP]

Yap, I have a buddy like that except the room in the pic has less stuff. He actually has paths to navigate through the clutter.

... but he has some of the most interesting stuff from Free Kids meal prizes (unopened) from the 70's or 80's forward to old electronic equipment.

[mikebw]

[quote bfd]So some day you can open a computer museum and charge admission?
Except every other mac person in the world already had that idea, and only the free museums would ever be solicited. Even then, unless they had every model of every mac every made, I don't think I would go.

So back to the hoarding thing- I find that if I simply don't have the space for stuff I stop looking. When I lived in a big house I would keep an eye out for things that I could use or thought were valuable somehow. Now that I'm in a smaller apartment I simply don't have room for more random junk. That and most of the furniture and other large things I currenly own I got for free, so that sort of satisfies my need to be thrifty. I don't necessarily prize possessions, but I have pride in knowing that I didn't pay for them. Make sense?

[OWC Jamie]

I'm soooo glad I never chewed gum.