On: Locating the source of a mysterious beep

You could also solve it by getting rid of the boxes of stuff you clearly don't need (if you needed it, it wouldn't still be in a box). The best way to solve a problem is to make the problem go away.

> if you needed it, it wouldn't still be in a box

I like to keep a lot of things in storage, and sometimes go through my boxes and “rediscover” things I haven’t used in a while.

Sure I have a lot of things I never use also. Some things I could sell, and some things I could give away, and some things I could throw away.

But just because a lot of things are in boxes, doesn’t mean that I might as well get rid of all of it for that reason alone.

Step one: burn down half the house. If the beeping stops, the device was in the first half. If not, burn down the other half of the house.

This has got me thinking, I wonder how many garbage trucks are beeping right now.

And the piles of rubbish at the landfill are probably beeping too.

What a horrifying thought.