{"id":76,"date":"2009-01-09T00:46:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T05:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-02-14T21:08:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T02:08:20","slug":"76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jjmediaoutlet.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Too efficient at decluttering"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have previously touched upon my attempts at decluttering<\/a> and have run into the number one fear of those against getting rid of stuff, “what if I need something that I got rid of?\u201d In a bit of irony, it is in the midst of trying to thin the large pile of books that has caused the issue to arise. A long time ago, there was a little barcode scanner called the Cue Cat<\/a>, which was going to revolutionize the marketing industry but it never took off yet the Cue Cat could be modified to work as a regular scanner. I brought one on eBay, used it a few times but did not have too much of a use for it. <\/p>\n

The Cue Cat spent the majority of its time in the box with a variety of other miscellaneous technology items gathering dust and mostly forgotten about. Now that I am going through my books, it would be nice to use the scanner to get the UPC codes from the back of the books so I can convert them to ISBN and make a database of my books. It would allow me to have a better idea of what I have and make it easier to list items on Amazon or Half.com. I have searched all around looking for where I could have put the Cue Cat but have had no luck finding it. But the more I think about it, I seem to recall going through some boxes before I last moved and I think I probably found the Cue Cat and thought I have not really used this much and not sure I would even need it again and promptly threw it away. Now I would like to use it and at this point, it is nowhere to be found. <\/p>\n

I could always buy another Cue Cat or other barcode scanner from eBay, or even just tough it out and manually type this ISBNs into a database. So far, I have not been excited about either idea. I have entered two boxes of books into a database so far by hand and might just keep that up doing a few of them every so often, but still it would have been nice to have that scanner. Oh well!
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