I have an innate drive to keep things spare and minimal yet at the same time I have a hard time discarding stuff that seemingly could be useful. So over time, I find things that are in perfect condition and potentially useful adding up yet absolutely never used. So I'm doing a bit of a clean out to get back to less than more.
Examples of perfect stuff never used: hydraulic pole pruner. Bike maintainence stand. Wire fencing rolls. Styrofoam packing materials, both sheets and blocks. Dog bowls. Badmitten set and net. 1/2" climbing rope scraps less than 15' length. Marracas. Mint condition rugs. 450' of unused 3/4" double braid bull rope. Also lots of old saw bars ready for new tips (but why bother).
And same with my bucket truck- I keep the tools and gear closely vetted yet I still have, for example, a few rope slings of various sizes that are literally never used yet my thinking is, Ooooo, I could put these to good use sometime.
I use a 1 year destroy date on a lot of stuff but other stuff I should probably use a 2 or 3 year D date- if untouched in that time period, then see ya no matter how useful it might seem to be at some future date in some future situation that likely will never come to pass.
Also I hate it when I need something and don't realize I already posses it (neatly stored away) so I go out and buy it only to find later that yeah nah.
Anyone else relate to this?
Examples of perfect stuff never used: hydraulic pole pruner. Bike maintainence stand. Wire fencing rolls. Styrofoam packing materials, both sheets and blocks. Dog bowls. Badmitten set and net. 1/2" climbing rope scraps less than 15' length. Marracas. Mint condition rugs. 450' of unused 3/4" double braid bull rope. Also lots of old saw bars ready for new tips (but why bother).
And same with my bucket truck- I keep the tools and gear closely vetted yet I still have, for example, a few rope slings of various sizes that are literally never used yet my thinking is, Ooooo, I could put these to good use sometime.
I use a 1 year destroy date on a lot of stuff but other stuff I should probably use a 2 or 3 year D date- if untouched in that time period, then see ya no matter how useful it might seem to be at some future date in some future situation that likely will never come to pass.
Also I hate it when I need something and don't realize I already posses it (neatly stored away) so I go out and buy it only to find later that yeah nah.
Anyone else relate to this?