Electronic stuff ....

My love affair with gadgets began with my small cassette player. I would even hug it as I slept. With my first earning I purchased my coveted "Sony Walkman". Every spare money I had went in purchasing tapes an in the later years CDs. I have owned almost every music related gadget ever released - cd man , MP3 players, all versions of iPods, some in multiple colors, cube music players, speakers, Bose music systems, all varieties of head phones. My next obsession turned out to be mobiles. I change a mobile model every 6-8 months. I have been loyal to all brands- Motorola,Ericsson, Sony, Nokia , BB, Apple and various local indian brands. So you can imagine the number of chargers, adapters, ear phones that I would have accumulated over the years. 

Add to this the laptops, net books, tabs, music systems, modem, routers, handycam, video recorder, tapes, pen drives, storage disks, memory cards .... Phew !!! The list goes on and on.

When I start today,to clear ,I am looking at 3 big cardboard boxes full of outdated, obsolete electronic junk that I have no clue how to get rid of 

Of course when they mean so much to you, you would hardly pile them into a garbage can 

So this is the process that I went through to de- clutter and minimise my electronic accessories 

- categorised as adapters, wires, chargers, CDs, mobile phones, phone charger, av equipment etc etc

- binned the broken and damaged items

- kept aside the obsolete ones

- of the relevant items set aside the duplicates

- gave off the obsolete ones to collectors 

- put the spare stuff in a box - to be given off to charity

- made a list of what is relevant and put that in dust proof covers 

- arranged in a small sturdy box

The result ? From 3 huge cardboard cartons of junk - I have minimised to a small box of absolutely useful, relevant, sorted and labelled electronic accessories. I am still miles away from an ideal minimalist's list, but this is a good beginning. This is iterative and the next time, I will reduce this black box to a smaller black box !

What's in the box