Hey everyone,
first of all, thanks for your support, nice words and your tipps and tricks.
I managed to get rid of quite a few things in the last weeks by just going through every single shelve, every drawer, every box and sorting for stuff I didn't think of in the past few years. Right now I am sorting my component drawers and I already got rid of two complete drawers. Sorting those is actually pretty easy, at least for me, since I don't work with too much old analog or digital stuff, so I just decided to get rid off
- FETs that aren't logic level (if not something special, like capable of switching a bazillion amps or no RDSon at all)
- Transistors that I have like a million off - just kept the modern versions
- ICs that are so obsolete that using them in a new project would be stupid
- micros that I can't programm (basically everything that isn't an atmega)
Other stuffe like relays (discarded everything with voltages over 12V and every used one),
switches (discarded very old, ugly and/or used ones),
diodes (kept sorted, new zeners and two to three types of every category (shottky, general purpose, high voltage, high current,...)),
mechanical stuff (discarded almost everything),
lamps (discarded everything without a marking),
leds (discarded old, used ones)
and much more got also disposed off.
I tried one last time to give stuff away in a bunch but everyone that said he would be interested came around with something like "well, actually I would only like to take that specific item, you can keep the rest" - well... how about no.
So, getting along quite well with the cleaning project. I hope those of you that commented and have the same problem were able to pickup some good advice from the previous posts as well and are getting stuff done as good as I am right now
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