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Very enjoyable. I've had similar conversations with my better half. I need to simplify my life as well, I just moved and have boxes of cables to electronics I no longer own. Why can't I bring myself to get rid of that first gen tivo hard-to-find console cable? I don't know.

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freecycle them. There are groups in most population centers. Someone out there begging to find that tivo console cable.

Me and my wife have been getting rid of items not valuable enough to sell but too valuable to pitch through that channel for a while now.

Good tip, I'll have to remember freecycle, thanks.

I put all the old books and DVDs I don't want on half.com at a very low price. It's a bit annoying having to mail them all, but it makes me glad to know that they're going to someone who wants them.

I've always found moving to be the best time to get rid of things. If it hasn't been used since the last time I moved or I don't feel like packing it, it's gone.

This article is really an anti-hording thing. I immediately realized how many items I have in my house that go unused FOREVER. My wife has been begging me to throw some things out.

I am considering just looking through anything, if its a wire that has a 60% chance of being usused forever, scrapped, a cd, scrapped, a tv, scrapped. I want to do the same with my kid's toys (she has lots but plays with a key few (3year old), I mean really the biggest things we use are our computers.

Although I found a use for old textbooks: Computer monitor stands.

Second the textbook suggestion. Last year I actually used my physics book for a monitor stand before the quarter was even over. Shhh, don't tell my folks.

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