Salvaging philosophy

[mklotz]

Probably too OCD but keeping a record of how long some item you reused from the heap was in storage might be revealing. It would be one way to apply a "value" to all that might-need stuff.

I use fasteners and raw material all the time from my cache but I doubt I use more than one or two items a year from the pile of "I might need that someday".

Depends too on what you build. Building miniatures means that even tiny pieces of scrap have some potential value. My rule there is "if it weighs less than a nickel (5 grams), toss it".