I brought sadness upon myself just a few moments ago. I had to force myself to confess I have far too much gear and I need to get rid of some of it. Since my divorce we've been trying to sell the house and fortunately have an accepted offer and we close on the 7th of June. That gives me a short amount of time to do what I should have already been doing, packing and downsizing since I have an awful lot of stuff and transitioning from a good sized house to a small two bedroom apartment will necessitate less furniture and so forth.
Well I was cleaning out the unfinished portion of my basement where I have a couple freezers that I have help coming by tomorrow to haul them up to my garage so I can sell them. The room is also my lab room, service area for side jobs, and the room the collects all that stuff I "might use someday". I suppose the nice thing is I probably really don't need all the gear I have sitting in there and can sell some of it, but I'm going to miss having it there even if I only used it now and again
I never realized how much I had since it was easy to overlook. So if anybody is in the market for Cisco gear which I seem to have a lot of - keep your eyes out on the for sale thread. Found a whole slew of PIX's of all varieties (501's, 506's, 506e's, 515's, 520's, single 525, and a single 535) and some ASA's (5505's, single 5510). I have a neglected stack of about 100 assorted routers which I'll probably end up recycling a bunch since I would guess half are 2500 series but there's a bunch of 2600's, 2600xm's, few 2811's, 3640's, heavy beastly 3660's, and couple 1800 series. Lots of switches, haven't looked too close but some 2950's, 3550's with and without poe, a single 3560-8PC and single 3560-24ps-e, some old catos switches like a 4506, 4503's, 2948g's i have no idea why i kept, etc. Probably a thousand pounds of rackmount servers from some old S360 Celeron/PIII's to quad xeon rigs, old barracuda gear, a dozen or so assorted workstations, just a ton of stuff.
I suppose when the ex was nagging me for having too much crap downstairs that she may have kind of had a point? I'm kicking myself now - I should have gone through this sooner. Now I'll get to move it all and cramp up my limited space in my apartment and sort through it all to see whats going to the recyclers and what will net me a few bucks and how much it's worth. Kind of a good thing in a bad way I suppose.
