Are you a hoarder?

[Siwastaja]

I was.

Possibly the worst combination for hoarding some 15 years back: bought a pickup truck (with the idea of converting it into an EV, but that never happened), rented a garage/warehouse with a large garage door, visited scrapyards and bought off some auctions etc. Super easy to just push more stuff in.

Finally found a woman (now wife), slowly got rid of 90% of the stuff within a year or so without sacrificing everything, moved away from the garage, then bought a house and manufactured the kid.

Now I have realized that electronic design work is mostly sitting on the computer anyway, and when prototyping in lab, you have to prototype with parts that would go into production, so can't really use any random crap anyway. And components are dirt cheap. So just order the parts for the project, nothing more nothing less. Then they stay in the Digikey/mouser cardboard box, one box per project, you can write the project name on the box. Pretty self-organizing with near-zero effort.

And if I truly need something, I probably can find some hoarder who has it. It's good we have hoarders, but I don't want to be one anymore.

[madires]

Another category: the pragmatic hoarder
Hoards what will be needed sooner or later anyway, saving a trip to the store or shipping costs, and no waiting time for the delivery. Might keep some spare parts which will become more expensive or even unoptanium in the future.

[mendip_discovery]

Another category: the pragmatic hoarder
Hoards what will be needed sooner or later anyway, saving a trip to the store or shipping costs, and no waiting time for the delivery. Might keep some spare parts which will become more expensive or even unoptanium in the future.

When working on a motorcycle I tend to make a note of parts needed for the next session, order them and keep them in a box of new parts and then when I have time and enthusiasm to fit them I get that bike out and fit. If I don't have the parts I then have to order them and wait for them to get here only for me not to be in the mood or have time for it. The only issue with this method is I get onto other projects and take a long time to come back to it.