/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1961577
I grew up in a BIG house, and my parents allowed me to be a pack rat and to store stuff at their house for years.
They moved into a small house, I live in a small house.

So I piled up 20+ years worth of stuff I had been saving "just in case" into my small ass house. It looked like a hoarders house but I felt just like you do, hard to let stuff go.

Then one day a switch in my brain flipped.
I realized that what I thought was "good" material that I would use in the future, it was actually junk from when I was 16 and had no money. I had to scrounge and pinch pennies hard back then, nowadays I will drop money into a project without thinking which would have been unfathomable to younger me.
I also have way higher standards, and much more skill, with much better tools than I did back then too.

So I looked at everything I had laying around, I thought of all the projects I have and want to make in the future.
75-80% of the stuff was not nice enough to actually use in ANY project I had.
I would actually be ashamed of using some of the scrap I had laying around.

I looked at some of my old incomplete projects too, they were half baked from the beginning.

I kept stuff that was ACTUALLY worth keeping, stuff I would gladly put into my new projects, and threw the rest into the dumpster.
For instance, I had a box of probably 50 different wall warts from different shit, I had a whole garbage bag of PC molex power cords I got from a computer lab who remodeled.
I would have spliced that shit back in the day, its 100% nigger rigging to me now. It all went straight into the trash

>>1605721
Red Pill me on PEX. my house has copper pipes running on the outside after the previous owner had to have some work done. I know that rats love PEX, but I hate my pipes on the outside looking in.

>>1349996
>consumable
Consumed in flames it is then.