💬 I still have 9 dead SIM cards in a drawer

I have 9 dead SIM cards in the top drawer of my dressing table. I counted them on Sunday. None of them work. The oldest is a Tata Docomo card from 2012 with my college roll number scribbled on it. I found it while looking for a charger. I held it for a minute like it was a coin. Then I put it back in the drawer. Of course I did. The charger was in the kitchen anyway. Each one is a different phase. The red Vodafone one is from my first job at a call centre. The Jio one is from the week I quit that job and changed my number out of spite. 2 of them I can't even identify. No operator name, no number, just a blank gold chip and some dust. My brother says old SIM cards can be misused and I should cut them up. He's right. I own scissors. On Sunday I took them to the kitchen table with scissors. I cut a small corner off the Docomo one. Then I stopped. My mother walked in, saw the scissors, and asked who I was planning to fight. I said SIM cards. She looked at the pile, sighed, and said she has 14 of her own in a biscuit tin. So that's where I get it from. 2 women, 23 dead SIM cards, and 1 small pair of scissors. The corner is gone, so technically it's not intact anymore. I'm counting that as progress. My brother disagrees. Next to it the other 8 are in a small zip pouch now, so at least it looks organised. The pouch is labelled in marker. SIM cards, do not throw. I wrote that to myself, in my own handwriting. Anyone who opens that drawer in 20 years will find it and think I was a very serious person.

I used to be exactly like this until my sister found my collection and threw the whole lot out while helping me pack for a move last year, said I was one email away from a hoarding documentary. Slightly annoyed at the time, but cannot say I have missed a single one of those cards since, if I am honest about it.

Found four old SIM cards in a drawer while cleaning last month, two of them from networks that do not even exist anymore under those names. Kept meaning to cut them up and throw them out for actual safety reasons and somehow that never happens either. They just moved to a different drawer during the cleaning, which defeats the purpose.

I do this with old memory cards instead, tiny things from phones I don't even own anymore, sitting in a pouch in my drawer.