Ok, clearly this one is on you. And I don’t blame your wife.
You tossed out perfectly good cables. I’ve made this mistake too, so I feel your pain.
You need to have at least two piles: one for working parts, and one for non-working parts. Any organization beyond that is icing on the cake.
The cake is a lie.
I have no words for how your dog was able to piss on your computer. I would suggest looking up clicker-based training and teach your dog to piss on the carpet and not the hardware.
And there will come a day where you will be asked for a cable, and eventually you’ll find it in the tangled mess of cables that you’ve put somewhere in your domicile, you’re sure of it, just give yourself a minute to check; hold on, you swear you have it, just give yourself a minute to find it…. No not that one, almost but not quite…. Ah ha! Found it… no, you’ll keep looking.
Ok, clearly this one is on you. And I don’t blame your wife.
I mean com’on. Those are all rookie mistakes!
Ha ha, I haven’t!
<is consumed by giant pile of IDE, parallel, serial, VGA, telephone, USB A-B, RCA, and other assorted very obsolete cables>
And there will come a day where you will be asked for a cable, and eventually you’ll find it in the tangled mess of cables that you’ve put somewhere in your domicile, you’re sure of it, just give yourself a minute to check; hold on, you swear you have it, just give yourself a minute to find it…. No not that one, almost but not quite…. Ah ha! Found it… no, you’ll keep looking.