OT: Random Excess Stuff In Your House

[Chin Diesel]

So, our trash can has one of those motion sensors for opening and closing the lid. Battery powered. Batteries died so I went to the battery drawer in a dresser in a spare bedroom (One of our adult kids old rooms).
I open it up and we have one D cell battery. We also have 26 C cell batteries. I have no idea why we bought and accumulated 26 C cells and I have no idea what we have they would be used for.

What random stuff have you accumulated beyond your needs.

 

[DCHuskyFan]

My ex wife is still around way too much beyond my needs (pitfall of an amicable divorce).

 

[uconnfan68]

So, our trash can has one of those motion sensors for opening and closing the lid. Battery powered. Batteries died so I went to the battery drawer in a dresser in a spare bedroom (One of our adult kids old rooms).
I open it up and we have one D cell battery. We also have 26 C cell batteries. I have no idea why we bought and accumulated 26 C cells and I have no idea what we have they would be used for.

What random stuff have you accumulated beyond your needs.

That’s it? A few batteries? You can still pass inspection Chief.

 

[TRest]

Until we became better trained to bring our own shopping bags to the grocery, we built up an impressive stack of brown paper bags (which for some reason I don’t just recycle).

 

[Deepster]

I have had the same half gallon of WD40 in my garage for 20 years and counting.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Until we became better trained to bring our own shopping bags to the grocery, we built up an impressive stack of brown paper bags (which for some reason I don’t just recycle).

If I had a dollar for every time I stuffed more folded brown bags in the stack in the kitchen closet while my wife yelled at me about bringing our bags I would have retired a decade ago.

 

[boog204]

Paper bags, endless guitars and musical accessories, toys and art supplies for my kid, hot sauce and grilling accessories that rarely if ever are used

 

[jibsey]

Don’t know your age but I suggest getting rid of a lot of stuff. And BTW your kids won’t want ANY of it. We have purged twice and there is a lot more to go.

 

[Fishy]

So, our trash can has one of those motion sensors for opening and closing the lid. Battery powered. Batteries died so I went to the battery drawer in a dresser in a spare bedroom (One of our adult kids old rooms).
I open it up and we have one D cell battery. We also have 26 C cell batteries. I have no idea why we bought and accumulated 26 C cells and I have no idea what we have they would be used for.

What random stuff have you accumulated beyond your needs.

Opposite here - no C batteries and the greatest stock of D batteries in the western world.

I also have the box for every Apple product we have ever owned. I have the box for an iPhone “2”. (iPhone 3G) I have no need for any of them.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

So, our trash can has one of those motion sensors for opening and closing the lid. Battery powered. Batteries died so I went to the battery drawer in a dresser in a spare bedroom (One of our adult kids old rooms).
I open it up and we have one D cell battery. We also have 26 C cell batteries. I have no idea why we bought and accumulated 26 C cells and I have no idea what we have they would be used for.

What random stuff have you accumulated beyond your needs.

Self opening trash can? I’ve heard of the ones you step on to open, but self opening?

I’ve moved twice in the last 5 years so I managed to purge a lot of junk under the radar but I’ll confidently say half of my wife’s clothes could disappear tomorrow and she wouldn’t notice. If I disappear from this place, you’ll know I asked her “Can you even fit in this anymore?”…

Edit: I was pretty buzzed and salty over some youth sports politics writing this last night and I guess my wife’s clothes aren’t ‘random’ per se although they are scattered around in random places at times, so as others have mentioned, we have an absurd amount of chargers around, half of which I don’t know what they belong to. We have them for iPhones, iPads, kids earphones, earbuds, electric hand warmers, portable speakers, my kid’s Oculus, wires that guests leave accidentally, etc. If you need a charge, you’ve found the right place…

 

[Deepster]

Opposite here - no C batteries and the greatest stock of D batteries in the western world.

I also have the box for every Apple product we have ever owned. I have the box for an iPhone “2”. (iPhone 3G) I have no need for any of them.

Interestingly enough, they design the box so you want to keep it but don’t know why.

And that choppy and not smooth opening of the box the first time? It’s between 4 and 6 seconds because that increases your anticipation but over 6 seconds brings in frustration.

The whole thing is a mindfkkk.

 

[87Xfer]

I have easily a few thousand dollars of bicycle parts. High end stuff, Campy, Shimano XT and XTR. Formula brake stuff, high end wheels, cranks, a dozen unused saddles (seats). Probably 20% of it is new in-box. But the bike world has blown by what was cuttting edge 10-15 years ago. I finally had a charity org that wanted the stuff to build bikes for underpriveledged kids. But I tried for over 2 months to physically give the stuff to them and nothing - every time they were in my area they were too busy riding or skiing. It's been taking up the middle of my garage for 2 months. I'm talking 1,000+ different parts, so I'm not going to list them on CL or Ebay. I think I'm gonna just start feeding it into my trash bin.

 

[Dove]

So, our trash can has one of those motion sensors for opening and closing the lid. Battery powered. Batteries died so I went to the battery drawer in a dresser in a spare bedroom (One of our adult kids old rooms).
I open it up and we have one D cell battery. We also have 26 C cell batteries. I have no idea why we bought and accumulated 26 C cells and I have no idea what we have they would be used for.

What random stuff have you accumulated beyond your needs.

Thank you for clarifying which bedroom, Chinny. I needed to know.

 

[Bezzz]

Anybody want a piano? It's like a big tumor, really difficult to get rid of.

 

[Fishy]

I have easily a few thousand dollars of bicycle parts. High end stuff, Campy, Shimano XT and XTR. Formula brake stuff, high end wheels, cranks, a dozen unused saddles (seats). Probably 20% of it is new in-box. But the bike world has blown by what was cuttting edge 10-15 years ago. I finally had a charity org that wanted the stuff to build bikes for underpriveledged kids. But I tried for over 2 months to physically give the stuff to them and nothing - every time they were in my area they were too busy riding or skiing. It's been taking up the middle of my garage for 2 months. I'm talking 1,000+ different parts, so I'm not going to list them on CL or Ebay. I think I'm gonna just start feeding it into my trash bin.

But, like, XT still works great.

I have an old Specialized Stumpjumper Comp from like 1992 with XT on it. I only use it to tow chairs and floats to the beach at the Cape these days, but I’m always impressed how a 40 year old group still works so well.

 

[jibsey]

Anybody want a piano? It's like a big tumor, really difficult to get rid of.

There are always kids taking lessons but they use keyboards a lot. Piano sounds better.

 

[Zanzman]

Yours to move

 

[87Xfer]

There are always kids taking lessons but they use keyboards a lot. Piano sounds better.

Oh, yeah. We just "accepted" delivery of a baby grand piano yesterday. So I've got that going for me.

 

[Jaydumo20]

20 of every paw patrol action figure on the market. If you want a side character, or a new vehicle or that giant tower thing that looks great in the middle of a living room, they all come with the main dogs as well. They just keep adding up. Good news is we can play paw patrol and 101 dalmatians at the same time.

 

[Kolumbo]

I have easily a few thousand dollars of bicycle parts. High end stuff, Campy, Shimano XT and XTR. Formula brake stuff, high end wheels, cranks, a dozen unused saddles (seats). Probably 20% of it is new in-box. But the bike world has blown by what was cuttting edge 10-15 years ago. I finally had a charity org that wanted the stuff to build bikes for underpriveledged kids. But I tried for over 2 months to physically give the stuff to them and nothing - every time they were in my area they were too busy riding or skiing. It's been taking up the middle of my garage for 2 months. I'm talking 1,000+ different parts, so I'm not going to list them on CL or Ebay. I think I'm gonna just start feeding it into my trash bin.

I recently had my road bike tuned-up so I can ride again. Mostly for a workout so the fact that it is a circa 1993 Giant Allegre doesn't bother me. It really is a biotch getting up steep climbs but I refuse to walk even if I have to zig-zag sections. I figure, if this technology was good enough for guys like Eddie Merckx, I can get by with it. I do need to upgrade soon and although I haven't, I do have some random parts and equipment I just can't throw out.

Computer related peripherals. Printer, fax, laptops, phones, cords up the ying-yang. I just can't toss them for some reason but they have to go.

Running shoes. All over the place, some for mowing the lawn, some for walking in the rain, some for active casual use, and always one pair for running. It's like a totem pole of relegation.

 

[temery]

Remote controls and charger cords.

 

[Kitaman]

I've got too many COVID supplies that was saved for the apocalypse. I mean I can bathe in all this hand sanitizer and what's with all these masks I will never wear?

We were prepared for 'forever' COVID.

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

I have a cast iron stove from 1982 given to me by my now deceased father. It weighs 360 lbs so moving it - even across a room - is a major project. It can't be used in any conventional sense as it fails modern fire codes.

To further complicate matters, it once belonged to my older brother who owned it one season in his cabin on Bantam Lake before he tragically passed in a car accident in 1984. It had huge sentimental value for my dad, but it's a literal weight I'd love to get off my shoulders. My dad brought it to me 10 years ago without warning and it's sat in my basement ever since.

 

[geordi]

Everything in my house is superfluous, including me. Just ask my wife.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Don’t know your age but I suggest getting rid of a lot of stuff. And BTW your kids won’t want ANY of it. We have purged twice and there is a lot more to go.

My mom is a hoarder and she's lived the last 40+ years in a house that was originally her parents and her mom was a hoarder, so the attic is filled with not only my mom's junk, but my grandmother's junk from 70 years ago. The rumor is that there's a collection of my uncle's baseball cards form the 1950s somewhere up there carefully guarded by piles of old plastic crap from the 70s and 80s.