Spring Cleaning

[TheReaper]

As I'm sure most of you are aware, UO has had an event each year about this time for the past 5 or so years. The annual spring clean......

The whole purpose of this is to clean the shard up of all the useless junk we all collect over the months. I myself (a relatively new player to Pandora) already have 4000 Bark Fragments, a load of useless gems blah blah blah.

Now I'm not much of a pack rat myself, but I'm fairly sure that there are a lot of players here that are.

Each item that you posses takes up storage on the server and thus has some impact on slowing the server down (however small it may be.)

Would the spring cleaning event be a useful thing to have on Pandora??

If your not sure what I'm talking about, take a look at 2008 OSI Spring cleaning event

[King Kong]

Not a bad idea. Lucky we have a sweet server that can handle all your garbage.

If you dont need something, throw it away.

[Diomedes]

On a previous shard I played on, we had currency called "Trashite Bars"
We had a special golden trashcan (Bought from a banker for 10k) that when items were placed in the trashcan, and the phrase "I wish to Empty the Trash Barrel" was spoken within 1 tile of the trashcan, all the items inside would turn into trashite bars. A certain amount per a certain item (i.e.: 5 arrows per 1 trashite, and some items (like empty containers) didn't turn into trashite, and remained as they were before, inside the "Trashite Barrel")
Then, in our main-town square (We used vesper on this shard), we had a vendor stone, much like the ones in our donation room, but instead of gold, p-coins, pvp coins, or any other various currency this shard uses, that stone used trashite.
The rewards were harmless, Such as 100 of each reg for a certain amount of trashite, or clothing dye deeds, ect.
And the best part is noone farmed trashite, because it was a gold sink. The Objective of the barrel was only to junk the things you weren't going to need, or use, or want. That way your not purposly junking boards, ect, for trashite. Your simply getting alittle bit of currency, for throwing something in a trashite barrel rather then a regular trash barrel.

Maybe this shard could script something like this rather then having the annual event?
I Understand the server can handle the extra items, but it would make it alot faster, and help lag alittle bit, if we had an actual reward for throwing away junk rather then being pack rats.