Yer’ A Hoarder, Harry!
It's not that I have too much stuff. It's that I don't have enough shelves.
I mean, it is at least a little true. Yes, I have a habit of collecting tools, materials, parts, and projects, but all this bare wall space has been going to waste for years. And in those years, my horde has been haphazardly shoved into any nook or cranny I could find, after it was removed from the workspace it was cluttering up.
Don't get me wrong, so much of this stuff just needs to go away. And a lot of it will… I promise.
The extra parts I made in production batches for Version 1 of a product that I stopped selling nearly a year ago, long after updating to Version 3. The test pieces cut to dial something in with a new material or technique I don’t use anymore. The first runs and light defect parts I kept around in case I ever wanted to make another, much crappier version of this project later. The prototypes and proof-of-concepts and specialty fixtures and jury-rigged tools that I haven't needed in years.
The danger is not that I will decide these things are too worthy to throw out. It's that trash pickup is but once a week, and there's only so much room in the can. If it takes long enough, my internal attachment to this useless collection may outlast my willingness and ability to fill that can on time week after week.
In the meantime, it must be sorted. And if a thing is to be sorted, it must have somewhere to go.
Hence, the shelves.
About six feet across one wall, to start with, and more to come beneath every workbench in the shop. Allowing me to save what is useful in a hopefully-usable fashion. Because without some kind of structure and management, it's just a pile of junk (ask me how I know).
If I'm lucky, these changes will leave me with plenty of room to grow my priceless collection in the future.. If not, there's always a little more room in the shop somewhere.
(I'm not a hoarder. You're a hoarder. How could you possibly throw away all of Creature’s treasures?)
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