Looking at the prospect of moving house again soon, and came to the realisation that sound designers have the potential to be the very worst hoarders.
It's not just keeping cables of every sort - because you never know when you might need another midi to midi cable, or a midi to usb, or an XLR to stereo plug. Or those old speakers, either - you need a backup, and they're an extra set of reference speakers, after all. Or synths, or mixing desks, or microphones... yeah, there's a lot of gear involved in sound design.
But it's not really the gear I'm talking about. People understand not wanting to throw out or resell some of that - it was expensive to begin with, and can still be useful. The real danger is all the random bits of bric-and-brac you discover.
This random bit of plastic tubing. Those old vacuum hoses. That burnt out lightbulb. That tub of styrofoam. That broken slinky. Those glass marbles that used to sit in the fishtank. That blunt, gaudy, fake sword with the loose handle. That child's boomerang. A random piece of leftover balsa wood. Thirteen different rulers you never use. Silly putty. Empty jewellery boxes.
I'm either going to have to have a marathon session one day to record every possible use of these things so they can finally be thrown out, or accept that moving house is going to remain a nightmare forever.
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