Tonight as I sorted a bucket of cable into another bucket of cables I had a breakthrough. If I can’t think of a good use for it, chuck it. Not my old “good use” yardstick, which was, “No honey, we might need it again someday!” Someday in this case being the great cable shortage of 2321 when my ancestors will need the last parallel printer cable in existance that I had painstakingly labeled and preserved.

So goodbye male headphone to male headphone cord. So long AT to PS/2 dongle. Adios electrical cable to a light kit that was lost 4 years ago. And a special, heartfelt farewell to my longest running mysteru cable, a USB to phone jack cable.

But don’t worry, I still have 82 rca cables, 400 ft of coax, and half a dozen IDE cables. Because you just never know…