It hadn't occurred to me just how much junk I had collected over the years until I needed to find a couple of parts for the rig I'm building for my mother.  It's like 5 deep plastic storage bins and 3 sets of 4 drawers... all reasonably full.... and I haven't even rounded up what's in the cupboard underneath the stairs, which has a multitude of cases, monitors and other stuff.

Anyhow, I thought that I'd start wheedling through it and tossing out some of the old, old stuff.  Yeah, right!!  I had no use or a 939 socket mobo and dual core AMD CPU, and figured nobody else would, either.   Wrong!!! 

A guy I'd never met before and I struck up a conversation about PC's and he revealed that he'd like to lay his hands on a 939 socket mobo, which suited me as I had one... and the CPU to go with it.  Now you just can't buy these things new anymore, and he offered me $200 for them both.  Well I wasn't expecting to get that much, and he did explain that he was happy to pay it, given his lengthy search, so I accepted his offer and used the cash to purchase anther SSD to pair up with my existing one in a RAID 0 array to increase capacity and performance.

Hmmm, so all this old, old and obsolete stuff... it does have a use, if not directly to me.  It seems people who can't afford to update to the latest and greatest are quite willing to pay for older parts that are in good condition, and I can fulfill the needs of some with the stash I have accumulated.  You see, it's not just the left overs after my own upgrades, or Shaunna's, the whole family bring their rigs to me to fix/update, and whatever parts leftover they leave for me to do with as I please because I never charge for labour or the parts I already have.

Throwing stuff out, eh!  Looks like I might be hording it a while longer, given what happened the other day.  It's not the first time, either, so if my trash can be another man's treasure I'd be f**kin' nuts to toss it.

Orright, so who else has a large stash of old PC parts laying around and what sort of stuff is it?  That's right, fess up to being a hoarder and let us know the extent of your pile of stuff.... just how high is it?

I'll start!!  I got a couple old 486 mobos, CPU's and RAM to go with, some Intel P4 related gear and bits out of a couple of old IBMs that came out of the Ark.