Re: Been skippin'
Well yes, I've also moved house about a year ago, but that hasn't decreased the size of my Triassic, Jura and Pleistocene computer parts pile by any measurable amount. It 's about a Europallet and a half, stacked shoulder-high (12.82 linguini) with crates full of cables, controllers, harddisks (the one ESDI disk, 5.25" full height, I still have has been opened to show the stack of platters, and the ST412 has disappeared), tapedrives in several formats, floppy drives, Zip, Jaz, Syquest, Bernouilly, you name it. And that's not including the actual systems, such as a couple of Beebs, Atoms, an Electron and an Archimedes, a Motorola Powerstack, several SGIs, Alphaservers, VAXes, some 68k and PPC Apples, and a few Sparcstations.
Fortunately my girlfriend fully recognises the "Disposal-Provided Acute Necessity Syndrome", having been brought up, computer-wise, on hand-me-downs supplemented by the odd computer-fair catch, as well as having a couple of motorcycles *), the youngest of which is reaching 30. For which spare parts tend to come with most of another motorcycle attached, and it'd be a pity to throw all those bits you don't immediately need away, surely?
*) I do as well, although mine are only between 20 and 30 years old.