Just when I thought I had gotten rid of all those damn DVD slip cases, I find more of them. When will it end?
All these cardboard things really do is make it more inconvenient to open the DVD case and get the DVD. So I finally decided to toss most of them. Ditto for the box of this cordless mouse that I bought years ago and still use.
By the way, I did a whole "Boxes of Armageddon" series earlier this year. Go read it if you haven't read it yet.
Speaking of boxes, remember when box sets used to be way more boxy? It seems that most CD/DVD-ROM, CD music, and DVD movie box sets try to cram everything they can into a small box. But back in 1998, when I bought Mad Magazine's CD-ROM set, the box was just needlessly huge. It was cute, but I realized that there was no point in holding on the excessive boxing when the 8 discs already fit into a much smaller box that was contained in the huge box. Maybe they just wanted to give the illusion that you were buying a lot more than you thought you were, I don't know. So bye-bye to the huge box.
I also found some photocopies of books I had made from the library or printed on-line. Don't worry though, they were all in public domain. I still think it's easier to just read from paper than from a screen, so I'd print these out for reading. Eventually though I ended up getting a good copy of the book, or at least didn't need the sheets hanging around. Off the recycle bin you go, print outs!
