Ignoramus18435 wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:33:28 -0600, M Berger wrote:
What makes them valuable if it's not economical to try
to sell them (and they take up your storage space)?

Because I think that they well might be useful later. A few things
that I have, are going into the trailer, such as steel handles,
electrical box, a big handle, etc.

Not to pick on you personally, but that is exactly the thinking that
can lie behind hoarding things excessively. And the thing about
it is, it is TRUE. You might very well MIGHT find a perfect use for
that item later on.

The problem is when the thinking ends there. For it to be the best
decision to hold on to something, the fact that it might be useful
is, by itself, not enough. There are positives of keeping it, but
there are negatives too, and the positives need to outweigh the
negatives. One possible negative is reducing the amount of space
you have for other things, making it harder to walk around, harder
to work, and harder to find the stuff that truly is useful among
the sea of stuff. Another negative is if you wind up paying extra
money to rent a storage space. In a lot of cases, you could re-buy
every single item in a rented storage space for less than the
$75/month rental fees multiplied by however many years you keep
it. It just doesn't make sense to store $1000 worth of furniture
in a $75/month storage space for 2 years. And of course, there
are other negatives of storing things, too, like having to look
at clutter, the extra time out of your life it takes to deal with
all of it, and so on.

- Logan