George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
He has a habit of buying all kinds of electronic devices.
The ones you see advertised on late-night cable television, or the backs of magazines.
They were cheap, flimsy, and broke easily.
George put the broken devices in a box, and he would wind the chords and tie them with rubber bands.
Not that he ever bothered to get them repaired.
Or remember which cord went which device.
He just bought another cheap and flimsy device to replace it.
Which would break, and he’d toss it in the box.