Am I the only one that does this or is it part of the disease . Took this off of a used mirror I put on a customers truck and I can't make myself throw it away . I have no clue what I would use it for but it's a nice little bracket . And the next problem is where do I put it so that I remember I have it and can find it .

 

Oh no, you're not alone. In fact, I'd take a picture of the box I have filled with that kind of stuff, If I could remember where I put it.

 

No, it's not just you.

I do the same thing. We had a school superintendent tell us teachers, if you haven't used a unit or a file or materials in 5 years, we should throw it out. I hated to do that.

At home I Save stuff like you. I have even thrown stuff away only to get it out of the trash the next day. And then put it back where I had it.

I even dumpster dive for good stuff. I have made shelves in the basement and garage solely from materials I've rescued from a dumpster. Several years ago I pulled windows from a dumpster at a house they were remodeling. They are neat old windows. Plan to list them for sale sometime. They sit up in the second floor of my garage.

 

I do this as well. I collect, restore and use old gravleys and have a bunch of old parts. I call those my barter stash. If someone has something I need then I try to barter. I know I'll end up doing the same thing once I get into my 48 F1.

 

Same here. I have a set of shelves I packed full of odd mechanical crap that I call my "junkyard". And I do, on rare occasion, actually use some of the stuff I have squirreled away there!

Put it on your existing pile of brackets, of course!!!

 

It's a common malady... I'm a semi-horder as in I keep stuff that might be useful in the future. For instance I have a new heating element for a dryer that died 5 years ago, but someone might need it. When I buy plumbing things (toilet sets and such) I buy two cause the next one will fail on Sunday nite. I kept one set so long the rubber seals disintergrated. I use a Yazoo big wheel mower for trimming and bush hog duty that I bought used in 1980...it's a '75 model. I can't kill it, on it's 3rd engine. I also got a parts mower for it. several years ago I scrapped the mower deck but removed all the wheel drive assembly and it sat on a shelf patiently waiting for a new life. Yesterday a 'friction drive' bracket wore in two. It's aluminum and I can't weld alum so I went to get my 'saved part' to repair the self propelled assembly. I tore three buildings apart and it's nowhere to be found and I know I didn't get rid of it. I scabbed something together to get it back working temporarily but I'll find that &%$$#&(* assembly and fix it right... One example of dozens around this placed. Keep piling it up EBEAR you never know when it will be needed. BTW, you got a wheel drive assembly for a S26 big wheel Yazoo mower

mine is not this pretty

 

If you're gonna try and use this thread to somehow win an argument with you SO, good luck Chuck.

 

I found a vacuum cleaner that was exactly the same one as the one that we use in the house.ours is like new.when i saw it i said why not take it home and take a look at it.if i cant fix it the next day was garbage day and i will throw it out.it was loaded with dirt.after i took it apart and cleaned the filters and washed it up it works great.so now i have a great spare.

 

No worries.....I too am troubled with that same disease!......funny what makes us all tick!.....

 

I live in a college town. There are some townhouses across the alley from us. People come and go frequently. And college kids are dumb. They have no sense of value or money or stuff that money buys.

I don't know if these renters were college kids or not but sitting out for the garbage for several days was a practically new broom and a step stool. Now I have a new broom in the garage and I don't have to use the step stool in the house for garage/outside stuff.

 

Not at all. It's got a hole in the end. Run a zip-tie through it, hang it from a hook in the ceiling so you can never lose it and never find it.

 

Somehow, some things are unique all over the globe - me too have this infection. I just can't throw stuff out that still is good. If I get rid of something I know I will need it a few days later.
The issue is not collecting or not throwing out stuff, finding a suitable place to store it where you can find it again in case you need it (if you remember having it) is the challenge.

 

I think anyone that has grown up through hard times becomes resourceful and sometimes develop hoarding tendencies. In the back of the mind, fear of the return of bad old days pushes it along. Waste not want not.

 

Although I've always been this way , because of having to make little brackets and things for the truck and coupe it seems to be more pronounced . Where allot of times in the past I would keep stuff knowing what it was for and keep it even knowing it was most likely never to get used , now I just look at things like this and think " cool what would I possibly use this for " and promptly put it somewhere I'll forget about even having it .

 

I caught this disease from my late grandfather. The man could build whatever you needed from spare parts in an afternoon. I always wondered where he found all the parts, now I know. Just keep everything, lol. And some of these old parts are way more detailed or oddly shaped that they just HAVE to come in handy at some point in the future. I hope.