Does anybody elese's DH have a cupboard of obsolete electrical stuff?

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Phone chargers, cables, tech/computer stuff from 15 years ago?
It really won't come in useful will it?

We are cleaning out the shed atm and I am so hoping we can progress to this cupboard before they end lock down.

Sorry about the typo in the title.

No, but I have a massive drawer of it! Sorting it out is on the list of things to do during lockdown.....not got round to it yet. Maybe once I've completed Netflix I'll do it.

Yes. We’ve even moved with it.

YES!!!! I even bought him a metal box off amazon called a 'Man Tin'. It overflowed, so we have several boxes of stuff now!

Admittedly, I did find a replacement cable thing when a mouse ate through a previous one, but I doubt he even knows where the boxes are now!

I have a plastic crate of chargers etc. Or electric string, as I like to call it. It's not good, but I am frightened I will throw out something I need, irrationally.

The cupboard is full. Now he is piling stuff on top of it.
He is collecting toilet roll insides to make something to cover wires? Cables?
I have left him in the shed and am drinking wine.

I haven't locked him in or anything.

Yes but he's condensed it down to a couple of smallish really useful boxes.

I'm as guilty. I have a cupboard with several sets of speakers the oldest are from 1977

DH doesn't, but I do. I have all the pre-smartphones I've ever owned shoved in a drawer with their charching cables

Oh God. Tons of the stuff. I long for a skip to chuck it all in, but I'm leaving him soon and not living with all the crap is one of the things I'm really looking forward to.

I have a cupboard and two drawers full of exactly this same kind of stuff in my kitchen.

I live alone. Have done for years and years but still hang on to this stuff. I call them my 'man cupboard' and my 'man drawers'.

DS1 came to stay at Christmas and I asked him if he could fix my surround sound as I just couldn't get it to work. I popped out to pick up DS2, when I got back DS1 said he'd fixed it by finding the necessary cable in a drawer he guessed would be a 'man drawer'. 😆

Oh God. Yes, speakers. And routers. Why routers? A tin full of batteries - no idea if they are new or flat. They need testing but the tester is lost. Of course.

Yes, and we have moved three countries with it. And three untouched toolboxes 🙄

I'd forgotten about the tool boxes.
More wine.

Arrgghh.
I have just remembered about all the bits and pieces of radiator valves, screws, nails, fuses, hinges, washers etc that have been in the cupboard under the stairs for the last 20 years. None of this will ever be used. We could have a yard sale.

He has been retired 4 years.
I do love him, but honestly.

The way I see it it’s their home too so if they want to keep it I don’t mind as long as it’s not cluttering up the space

Also old computers (90's style giant things), monitors and laptops which are for 'parts' when needs them. In 17yrs, I've never seem him strip a computer, make a new one or open an old one up for parts

Well, yes. But it is cluttering up so much space.

He doesn't but I do. I tried to sort it out last weekend but a lot of it survived!

When we moved, nine obselete computers appeared from the loft.

Nine.

We already had four or five downstairs.

A cable (or twenty) for every occasion.

“Might be useful” shit.

However, his embarrassment at emptying the loft triggered something and he has been a lot better since then.

A cupboard? I wish! DH has a computer cupboard, a dresser and 2 sheds full of it! It's his only negative aspect though so i dont complain!

Oh yes, my DH will save any old crap like that. Wires, plugs, batteries, you name it. We have moved several times in the last few years and it's come with us, at least two boxes taking up valuable space. I tell you the most annoying thing though - when someone needs a little bit of wire or connector or whatever the shit it all is, and he totally saves the day producing it from his box, after 3 hours scrabbling theough it. Then that once in a decade event justifies all the storage of the shit forever more. When they could have got it off Ebay for £5 anyway in all probability.

Only 15 years old? Pah! I'm sure we can see that and double it 😀