Death Row

I first learned about the concept of sentencing software to Death Row in Gina Trapani's book lifehacker: 88 tech tips to turbocharge your day.  I believe it started here.

I have couple of folders that get a fair share of abuse, one is a dev folder, it's where I put all those one off scratch apps that are created usually to test out one thing.  usually poorly named.  Those pile up fast.  So implemented a Death Row folder.  It's awesome.  grab every project that's older than say a month, or named something like craptester or crackmonkey or MvcApplication1, MvcApplication2, MvcApplication3, etc, and sentence them to the Death Row folder.  Where they sit for say a month? you choose.  Then you delete them. Keeps the clutter down. 

My other folder that gets abused is my svn folder, where i checkout crap from every place that lets me.  Now i'm in the habit of Death Row, so I can keep that folder nice and clean.