You know that you're decluttering the OLD crap when....

[ffutures]

...you find an old AOL distribution disk in the current pile of junk...

...and it's a floppy, not a CD

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[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

There's a box of those sitting at my parents' place, both disks & cd's. My mother uses them for making patterns in her pottery. =)

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

I'd say put that thing up on eBay. Might make a quid or two off of it.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Too late, it's already in the bin and covered with orange peel etc.

[nelc.livejournal.com]

My crap isn't quite that bad... But only because I moved in here after AOL gave up on floppies. I have no doubt that there would be floppies and even Mesopotamia On Line clay tablets if I'd been here long enough.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to be pretty ruthless about decluttering, unless there's a realistic chance i'll use stuff it's headed for the bin / ebay / charity shops etc..

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Plausible. See also my large collection of laser disks, 19th century magazines, etc. etc.

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

I had binned them, she fished them out for her pottery work.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Fair enough - not your clutter then...

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

The lengths some people go for their hobbies, right?

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

They were quite handy back in the day when floppy's were still quite expensive, I think I used them all through university for saving stuff onto.

[pauldormer.livejournal.com]

No food waste recycling in your area then? :-)

These days, very little grungy stuff goes in the refuse sack.

[slashaddict13.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha! I just went though and binned/recycled thousands of old floppies (both 5.25" and 3.5"), zip discs, jazz discs, Bernoulli discs, tape backups, and CDs. It was like a walk down memory lane.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Not round here - Westminster do do glass/paper/cans etc. recycling but not food. When I remember I put vegetable waste into a composter, but I didn't think it worked for orange peel.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Those were the days - but it's years since I needed one, or even owned a computer with the drive, it's time to be ruthless.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

At some point I need to test some hard disks again, then if they still don't work bin several hundred gigabytes worth.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've still got a box of floppies in the wardrobe, with stuff on them, but long since stopped owning a computer with a drive. I honestly don't know why I'm keeping them either.