[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I used to have electronic crap for days. (Incidentally, tube gear has exploded in value as you probably know) At some point, I realized that if the square footage of the req'd storage space had 1/5th of its current market value; for the one or two or three parts I could reasonably expect to get out the pile that still had a vague chance of working , I could hire a chauffered limousine to take me to the parts store, pay quadruple list price, and still come out ahead.

[EGPWS]

I could hire a chauffered limousine to take me to the parts store, pay quadruple list price, and still come out ahead.

You're not a "mole", YOU are a "Pack rat"! $$$$

[mylife]

Yup.

But those 40 dollar USB cables make you wanna hoard it L0L

[mylife]

What drives me to throw crap out is when it takes 6 hour to locate the 3 dollar thingy I saved when a trip to ACE could have me in business in 5 min L0L

[Hyzenthlay]

When I was a kid, I collected every broken or non-functional piece of small electronics I could get my hands on, and had a rather impressive box of everything from CD walkmans to TV remotes in hopes of building something cool with some of it one day. Well, 6 or 7 years later, my brother is doing some circuitry work, and I offer to get some nail polish to match his spray paint for a button or something that’s too small to spray-paint. Although I never found the nail polish, I did find the old box of parts, and he was thrilled to discover some of the goodies that were salvageable from some of those old broken things =P

Right now, I’m in a small-ish room in a small-ish apartment I share with three other students - there’s no room for hoarding here. Although, I suspect my impressive stuffed animal collection is still sitting in my parents’ closet, along with several hundred Beanie Babies my grandmother bought for us kids starting long before they were popular and ending long after they’d gone out of style...