Decades ago, I moved from Massachusetts to Florida. When I moved from that house to a new one, I discovered an unopened bathroom fan motor + blower wheel in the attic (left by a previous owner). “Nice” (head nod) I said to myself, and threw it in with everything else in the moving boxes.
Of course, my wife told me to “just leave it” and “you’re such a hoarder!” It stayed in that box when we moved again a decade later.
Today, one of our bathroom exhaust fans stopped working (for the 2nd time) so I decided to reach deep into my hoard of random crap. “I have just the thing!” I still remembered which box it was in and where I stored it in the attic above the garage!
BONUS: The old bracket nuts didn’t fit the new motor so I had to fish around in my collection of random nuts, bolts, and screws to find two exact matches. Which I had, of course—because I save all the screws of all the things 👍
I saved ~$37 and a trip to the hardware store today!
This gives me great hope for my box of obsolete cables and adapters.
You never know when you’ll need to hook up an IDE floppy drive
I mean … you do know, but you might not want to admit it
Mr President, we need to reset the nuclear codes to restart earth! But we need an IDE floppy drive!
Mr President(Space Noodle): I need to get to my 2026 attic!
My bnc networking gear will save the day (one day)
I still have the proprietary cable that lets you hook up a 1992-ish Sony Handycam to a TV with RCA inputs.
I know exactly where it is in my attic: Under the S video cables, an original FireWire cable, and the cable that lets you hook up two Atari Lynx portable consoles together in order to play Warbirds against each other in real time.
do you still have the handycam? that took super8 right?
Yes I do! Not Super 8… Wow. I’m not that old! Super 8 is from the 1960s and 1970s. The Sony Handycam I have used a format called “Hi8”.
damn we must have been using old equipment. we shot everything on super 8 off whatever cameras we could get our hands on in the 90s. except my buddy who did stop motion who had a 35mm