I once prevented throwing out a broken electric toothbrush for a year
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I swear this server rack packed with everything but servers is getting us! No! Dont touch that old computer next to the server rack! Thats the server!
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Yeah it’s all fun and games until you live with an actual horder.
i think i’m just both of these people?
A well balanced person?
What are you doing here?
is that how balance works?
I often find i throw shit away, and then years later remember that it would be nice if i still had it. I cannot win.
Ah yes. The cousin to “one partner saves money meticulously for emergencies and rainy days and the other partner uses it for vacations and fun.”
Was I supposed to marry someone who throws things out?
They didn’t throw you out, so what did you expect?
Throwing out my stuff that i was saving is a marriage-ending event.
Growing up my mom and I have friends who’s wives have thrown (often expensive) stuff away without asking their spouse and I’m always like “uh… what?”. At least ASK first. I have a decent amount of of PC parts and various screws and whatnot that I’ve saved for years but they don’t take up much space and they come in handy all the time. Just recently I had to fix a broken hold down thing on my PC’s motherboard and I would have been fucked If I hadn’t had a box of shit to look through to fashion a replacement.
I understand asking to get rid of stuff if it’s in the way but if it’s out in the garage with the rest of their tools or something like that and they toss it that’s fucked up to me. I have shelves that are designated for this purpose and if more stuff then will fit I toss something to make room. The line for me is it being on the floor or spilling onto horizontal furniture. Which I think is perfectly reasonable.
The person that throws things out is the real goblin.
… Oh no.
I know a pair of hoarders. I wonder which one is the throw away person
I currently have a non-functioning coffee machine and a broken kitchen scale right beside me. (Like, literally broken, I keep finding acrylic glass fragments…)
With a few mods you should be able to get a functioning kitchen coffee scale machine
Nooo don’t give me ideas!
What if you’re currently using a working coffee machine that’s the same model of the broken one, keeping it ‘just in case’ the other one breaks ‘in a different way’ and you now have the part? Umm, asking for a friend…
I tried that once. Turns out they made some small changes between the different version of the same model and the parts didn’t quite fit. I don’t keep things around for spare parts anymore.
That’s not only perfectly reasonable, it’s also the most sustainable thing to do
Just swap the broken parts an you end up with two working coffee machines for your friend!
And, who is the goblin vs who is channeling Marie Kondo changes depending on context. I will throw out shit that could be considered sentimental all the time, but I have chargers and hard drives from the 90s.
I’ve tried to cut back on my saved cords, limiting myself to 3 of each kind. Why 3 I couldn’t really tell you
I’m not sure why I have even one parallel cable, but I do. Surely I could just buy one online if I ever needed one. 🤔
I’m the last year I’ve needed exactly 2 m.2 standoffs and been able to produce them from my pile of shite, continue with installing the drives and not spent an extra few quid on getting them delivered. I will continue to use this to justify hoarding power tools and wood.
For me, I live rurally so yes, I can order one but it’ll take at least a week to get here. Or I can spend as much on gas as the cord costs and waste my time making a special trip into town to get it sooner
Mind you, I still hoarded cords when I lived in a city. Now I can finally justify it
If you need one, it might be for something you got two of (especially if you’re married), and because they’re old one of them might be broken
Very true. I think my thought process was something like, if I need a cord and one of my backups is broken, I can use backup #2 and still have backup #3 in case another cord breaks before I can get a new backup.
Has this ever happened? No. “But it might,” whispers the hoarding goblin in my head
Edit: spelling
I carried around a Costco pack of toilet paper through like 4 moves “just in case” and then the plague hit and I was the only person I knew who wasn’t wiping with wads of lawn trimmings. Sometimes that hoarding goblin is on to something
You might need one of those drives! You never know!
If nothing else there’s nice magnets in there.
I was asked today what I was going to do with the 12 old bottle teats I’d been saving from my son’s milk bottles… I’m not sure any answer would have been satisfactory but the truth is I want to make a weird Halloween costume.
They stayed… for now
Since I learned I can keep my rock collection(nothing special, just common rocks)outside in the form of garden borders I think I’ve become less of a garbage goblin?
You should not need to hide your probably extraordinary nice rock collection in the garden. I’ll fight your partner for you if you want.
It’s all good! I still keep my favorites inside, it’s just the bigger ones that live outside.
Plus, I have the goal of an all quartz garden border now. It’ll be satisfying when I finish it!
We’re both keepers 😬
