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

51 replies

aladyofinderterminateage · 19/04/2020 19:15

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.

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ManualFlusherSnot · 19/04/2020 19:49

No, but my OH had a bunch of scrap wood which I managed to make a play house from.

Does anybody elese's DH have a cupboard of obsolete electrical stuff?
Does anybody elese's DH have a cupboard of obsolete electrical stuff?
Does anybody elese's DH have a cupboard of obsolete electrical stuff?
Original poster
aladyofinderterminateage · 19/04/2020 19:54

A play house? Wow that is clever. Smile
We found 3 tents in the shed.
We have never been camping in 40 years.

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Sewingbea · 19/04/2020 19:57

I am feeling a lot better about DH's cables and computer collection since reading this. 😂

30daysoflight · 19/04/2020 19:58

My DH has boxes under the stairs, in the attic and various drawers throughout the house. I managed to fill a van for the junk and made £300 on eBay for some. He will then find a part to repair something, annoyingly, which justifies his hoarding.

He is lovely though. Smile

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 19/04/2020 20:01

Certainly not. We have a house full and a garage full, but I put my foot down when he started eyeing up the cupboard as well.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 19/04/2020 20:03

They like wires. Maybe it's some kind of nesting thing?

Sewingbea · 19/04/2020 20:04

I console myself with the thought that it's nowhere near as bad as my father's collection. He was an electrician so their garage is full of broken electrical items that can be broken up for parts. Three irons at the last count and at least two hair dryers... And an old tractor that he has been restoring for the last fourteen years. Corona has stopped his daily golf so he's returned to the tractor tinkering. I don't know how my mum tolerates it. Though she's probably not been in the garage since the tractor arrived ...

PerspicaciaTick · 19/04/2020 20:04

DH does, and the study, and the garage. He sells it on ebay (yeah) and then acquires more (boo). The net effect is fairly constant but he makes enough to pay for our holiday each year.

ICouldHaveBeenAContender · 19/04/2020 20:05

DH has hung onto an entire camping TRAILER full of all the camping stuff we're never going to use again. Well, I'm not anyway.

Witchend · 19/04/2020 20:06

We did. We had a whole packing box, which dh then "hid" (difficult as it was nearly 3feet high) behind the sofa.
After a couple of years I moved it to the centre of the room. Still didn't sort it. So I emptied it on the floor and told him any left there at the end of the week was going to the tip. He cleared it.

Whitelisbon · 19/04/2020 20:07

Yes. Cables. So many fucking cables! There's at least 30 scart leads, and not a single TV in this house has a scart connection.
I've started binning them, just a couple at a time, every time I take a bin bag up to empty the bedroom bins. Been doing it for a year or so, and have managed to get rid of an entire boxful. There's at least 3 more that I know of.
We had a massive bedroom shift and reorganise before Christmas, during which I managed to take 3 old monitors, 2 16" crt tvs and 2 old computers to the tip. Along with a full bag of cables.
The annoying thing is, whenever he needs a new cable, or a screw, or a washer, he just goes and buys one, as its "easier" Angry

Zampa · 19/04/2020 20:08

At the last count DH had 11 computers. We have approximately 5 cupboards to full of wires and plugs and other bits of tech that are incomprehensible to me. All credit to him though, he's set us both up with a wonderful home office in the past month.

TheEmojiFormerlyKnownAsPrince · 19/04/2020 20:10

I’ve found my people😖

Endless hard drives.
A veritable spaghetti mountain of cables, everywhere line coiled black snakes(except for the curly ones)
Dongles
Random chargers.
Bits of computers

Yet l manage to live a normal life with none of these things.

And can we just discuss albums and cd’s?🤪

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 19/04/2020 20:22

And can we just discuss albums and cd’s?🤪

Well mine still has a shelf full of cassettes

TheEmojiFormerlyKnownAsPrince · 19/04/2020 20:28

Can you even buy tape players anymore?😁

Mine has an entire room full of albums and cd’s. That are never played. They just have to reside there ‘in case’

I was once going on to Ds about cables and my hated of them. He replied he thought they were useful.

And like some sort of infection, he has drawers full of random cables and dongles🙄

TakeMeToYourLiar · 19/04/2020 20:37

3 Kallax cubes between us

iklboo · 19/04/2020 20:43

A drawer full, yes. Phones we don't have chargers for, chargers we don't have phones for, cables, CD you used to burn on PCs, video player leads and remotes. Won't throw them away 'just in case'. He's only 42.

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aladyofinderterminateage · 19/04/2020 20:46

We have laptops.
Keyboards.
Screens
CDs
Cassettes
Vinyl records
Transistor radios
Wind up clocks
Sigh.

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LIZS · 19/04/2020 20:47

Big box in boiler cupboard!

TheEmojiFormerlyKnownAsPrince · 19/04/2020 20:54

But they are all pointless!

We have 2 printers in our house. One that connects when it feels like it, and one that only works when the other one does.

Neither of these really connect to a computer with Office on it.😖

And yet we have miles of cables that could potentially solve this problem. But they don’t. And the IT in our house continues to be crap. EVEN THOUGH he has ANOTHER printer somewhere in the piles of shite.

Scrapeagle · 19/04/2020 20:55

Ooh, this actually made me delurk after nearly a decade. If you have old phones, even ancient pre-internet ones, or tablets or whatever, try Women's Aid. They were pleased to have ancient text only ones from me (with charger) as women can at least phone their family. And an old Kindle and iPad are now helping families cope with lockdown. It was a lovely thing to do with my and friends old tech, please tell everyone!

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aladyofinderterminateage · 22/04/2020 09:20

Who do I contact?
How do you donate?

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MrsExpo · 22/04/2020 09:27

Not a cupboard ... a loft!! Old camera gear, chargers and wires for things we don't have any more, an old fax machine (a fax machine Shock ... seriously?!), old printers, a scanner which doesn't work (but I bet he's got the leads for it somewhere!!), the hard drive from an old computer he used to use for work (been retired 8 years!) ... the list goes on, but I'm glad to hear i'm not the only one similarly afflicted!!

Good luck with sorting it out everyone.

Oldraver · 25/04/2020 19:27

OOH yes tool boxes, a couple of years ago I sent 6 to the skip. There still must be anothe r6 in the garage. Some are trolley tpes and others have wheels. I saw a post on FB asking if someone had a certain brand of tool box to fit on their others and I immediately asked OH if he had that one.

Then there are the prams. Two in the garage and three in the play room including a Silver Cross Coach built one that is OH's

DS is 14

yerawizadari · 25/04/2020 19:30

I got a large cardboard box, labelled it 'Random Electronic Gadgetry', chucked all the stuff in there, and put the box in the loft.

That was two years ago. He has yet to notice.

Grin