Originally Posted by flintlocke
Originally Posted by ridgerunner_ky
Most of y’all could throw away/donate 95% of the stuff in your garage and probably never miss it.
You might end up having to replace something for $20 that you got rid of, but 99 times out of 100 it would be worth it not having to deal with the messes everyday that most of you have and for peace of mind.
Never understood having a $50 worth of junk taking up space in the garage while parking a 50k truck outside because there isn’t room for it in the garage.
It makes zero sense to me.
This is the viewpoint of someone who lives in or near a densely populated area or state. If you had to fix something, today, or even tomorrow, and the nearest town where you could obtain it was a hundred or two hundred miles away...you would have a different view. Out here, the prudent man never throws anything away...a fitting, a bolt, a piece of steel, a piece of pipe, a piece of wire, a tool...

It is for sure not densely populated where I live. When we farmed keeping stuff was more important. Even then most of it was junk. There’s useful stuff and then there’s junk. It was more important to keep stuff when we farmed. Even then a lot of the stuff people keep is junk.