T i m wrote

Believe it or not, I would be mildly interested to hear what
(diy related ideally) gear you had found at garage sales

Vast range. Like lots of beer brewing barrels so I can have
20 brews on the go at once, so I can get the years supply
done in a couple of weeks when it doesn't need heating
or cooling. Lots of power tools so I have 5 welders,
everything from the massive great transformer based
stick welder I built the house with to a MIG, a TIG and
a decent little inverter that's good for small jobs.

Brilliant very solid 8x5 trailer, 5 ladders of various configs.
lots of power tools, still, hundreds of full sized glass beer
bottles we call long necks, massive great freezer, the
biggest you can buy, which happens to be the pigeon
pair of the fridge I bought new. Spare tyres for the
trailer for peanuts. Various very decent laptops.

Lots of the rigid plastic drawer sets that are intended
for paper etc which are ideal for storing small stuff
and meds etc.

Thousands of books.

or stuff you had picked up broken and repaired.

Don't do much of that, there is so much that still works perfectly,