Do you have a drawer full?
Maybe a box. Maybe a bag.
I’ve got a ‘special’ box. Not quite one cubic metre, but big.
And it’s full.
Full of old cables.
Audio: RCA, 3.5mm jacks, XLRs, speaker leads, MIDI.
Video: VGA, HDMI, mini ports, RGB component.
Guitar cables. Ethernet. Yellow ends. Red ends.
Kettle leads. Plugs. Extension cables.
Camera cables. Chargers. Flash cards. Power packs.
A few monkey cables that tie themselves in knots just for fun.
But mostly... computer cables.
FireWire. Thunderbolt. Lightning. USB-C. USB-A.
30-pin. Power plugs. Adapters. UK. Euro. US.
USB-C to USB-A.
Small ones for drives. Square ones. Thin ones.
Cables for things I no longer own.
Cables I never knew the use for.
Square pin. Round pin. Multi-pin. No pin.
And yet...
Whenever I need a specific one, I can never find it.
So I buy a new one. And the box grows bigger.
But this week, I’ve decided to untangle them.
Empty the box.
Sort them.
Tie them up neatly.
Bag them by type.
It’ll take time — but it’ll be worth it.
It’s just like untangling a brand, really.
Clear out the waste.
Keep what matters.
Make it easier to find the right thing at the right moment.
And this?
A Lightning to 3.5mm headphone adapter — that little white tail we all carried for a while.
Made perfect sense before Apple went wireless.
Now it just waits for a port that doesn’t exist,
for a phone I no longer have.
Don’t let your brand cling to things that were once useful, but no longer serve the world you’re in now.
Enjoy your Quick PINT
Cheers,
Nigel
