I save old hard drives, even though the are usually too small to be of practical use. I don't bother with memory chips because they go out of date too quickly. Computer cases might be good to save, but they go out of date also, and my current Dell computer has a proprietary case that only holds a Dell motherboard, so what's the use of saving it? I hate throwing out perfectly good cases with good power supplies, but if it's all proprietary, they are rendered useless in the future.
When it comes to clothes, I tend to hang onto good clothing that I have stopped wearing. I like to wear my clothes into holes before I throw them out. As a result, I never have any room for new clothes. I really need to throw out half my wardrobe.
I save hardware such as nuts, bolts, brackets, hinges, door knobs, and the like, but I can never seem to find what I want when I go looking through it.
It takes discipline to throw out absolutely everything you don't use or need, even things worth money. I can't be bothered having yard sales, so I just put good stuff on the curb and in a few hours it is magically gone. I think of it as my secondary garbage collection service.
Right now I've got a motorcycle sitting in a shed. I stopped riding it about three years ago, and it hasn't turned a wheel since then. I would give it away to anyone who wants it, but I can't be bothered searching for someone who will take it. It's probably worth about $1500, give or take. I don't care. To me, it's a lawn ornament in a shed. I don't need it, so it is worthless to me. I have no Jew impulse in my blood to turn it into cash. I thought about giving it to my neighbor's kid, but if the kid killed himself on the bike, the shit would hit the fan, so I haven't done it.
Most people, I've noticed, control their junk, and their tendency to hoard, by moving. Each time they move, they leave a large amount of stuff behind. That keeps their houses liveable. People who don't move around a lot have a more difficult time cutting down the junk, which never stops collecting all the time we are alive.
Ah, you collect hard drives too? I have a couple boxes of them in my digital data redistribution system.
This stupid house I own is full of junk that former roommates left here. One of them left the basement full of random stuff and I told him to come get it or I was going to throw it all out. He was like "don't touch my stuff" and came took half of it away to the dump himself. Even still, there is just random closets here and there full of junk that isn't mine. I'm about to just move out and get an empty one that isn't in a black neighborhood.
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