So, this is another little clutter spot that resides in our laundry room. We have several boxes full of television cable cords, phone cords, and ethernet cords. Sooo... TV cable cords... we have a variety of lengths and styles. Some are the screw-on variety... some are the push on variety. Do we need them all? Nowadays with Telus Optik TV, they pretty much provide all the cables that you need... so... do we need these or not? Probably not... At least not a dozen cords of various lengths. I'm keeping two smaller cables and getting rid of the rest.
Telephone cords - well, they are always useful. You never know when you might need a huge long extension on the telephone, right? Well... nowadays with cordless phones, that's becoming less of an issue. And some people don't even have landlines and don't use telephone cables! There are also various little doo-dads in there - those internet filters, various connectors to double up phone cords, etc. Those are useful. So maybe it's to reduce the number of phone cables - keep a couple, along with the doo-dads and let the rest go.
And then the ethernet cables. Some are quite long, and quite expensive... Some are shorter, and would be useful for business trips, where you can plug into an ethernet connection in a hotel room. But nowadays, with wirless internet connections, do we need all these cables? Well, yes and no... it depends. Wireless is good, but a wired connection is faster and more stable. So... I think I'll keep these 4 ethernet cables for now... You never know when a need will show up and they represent a significant amount of $ whereas phone and TV cables are pretty cheap.
So, another little area decluttered... and done!
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