[davidgerard]

1. Look at your tech pile.

2. Discard everything you have not used in five years. This will halve the pile.

3. Discard everything you have not used in one year. This will halve it again.

No, you won't put it on eBay. No, the special case it's for won't happen. No, "generally useful" is another term for "not actually useful", and "potentially useful" is another term for "not even actually useful".

[chazu]

Looks at big stack of C64 hardware in the corner and shifts uncomfortably

I'm reading Kondo's book right now, and at first I thought it was going to be a wash for me, but her criterion for keeping or discarding things is actually more subtle than "have you used it in the last year?" In her words, you should ask yourself "does this bring me joy?" This may sound like a cop-out, but for people like myself - people who have a lot of hobbies, projects and interests...it makes the problem more approachable.

We'll see where I'm at in six months, though.

[davidgerard]

When I applied that rule, I really needed to apply that rule. Threw out six broken laptops I finally had to admit to myself I'd never get around to fixing, a zillion obsolete-to-obsolete converter cables, two bags of clothes that had fitted me ten years and 10kg ago ... Blog rant about it: http://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/554439.html

I am tempted to apply the "Does this bring me joy?" rule to my stuff again.