Funny things you find while spring cleaning

marie-p

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Well, I'm doing some Spring cleaning today and so far it's a little depressing. Been working for over 2 hours and all I got done is the storage closet, book case and 3 drawers in my office.



So far I've decided to get rid of a whole bunch of things... including my old slippers, computer mouse and keyboard that don't work anymore, shoes that don't fit me, return address stickers with my old address on them...

But I just found something nice in my camera bag... the original memory card that came with the camera... it was a whole 8 MB!!!

I also still have the second card I bought with it... 32 MB!
Do you think they have any "retro" value now?

I also found disc 9 of a computer game... but I don't have discs 1 to 8 anymore.
 

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I just did a whole whack of spring cleaning. The pantry was the worst. Some things just got pushed to the back. Good thing I check the expiry dates before I eat anything that has been in there!
 

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I am a packrat, so I find many interesting. Here are some of my technology treasures, with newer models for size comparison...

My first mouse and my current trackball:


Some old software and current storage media:


And my favourite, my first cell phone (circa 1995) and my last one:


Fun thread!
 

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Originally Posted by alice_curiouser

I am a packrat, so I find many interesting. Here are some of my technology treasures, with newer models for size comparison...
Awesome pictures!!!
 

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We keep finding various kinds of dice: d6s, d20s, d4s ... (six-sided, twenty-sided and four-sided dice, respectively).

I also find empty lipchap tubes. J goes through about a tube a week and throws them into the trash when he's done. For some obscure reason, the cats obsessively dig them out of the garbage and play with them, and they (the tubes, not the cats) end up stuck under the furniture.

Other strange things I've found while cleaning: a pair of panties I'd been missing for a month (Oz steals them), a packaged Twinkie (we don't even eat Twinkies, so that's a little confusing ...), miscellaneous cat toys that don't belong to my cats (but probably belonged to the previous tenant's cats), a fake rose left over from a LARP costume I haven't worn in years, and once I found my social insurance card that I hadn't even realized I'd lost.

I should point out that I actually am a good housekeeper. My cats, however, are better thieves.
 
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