Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 03:33:02 -0400
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Throw it away


Having been raised the child of Great Depression era, pac rat parents, 
everything was saved in case it was needed or might be able to be used 
later. Recently I had to move my studio, which shared the space of the 
family business my father started about 50+ years ago. Between us, 12 
truckloads of saved scrap metal went away to the recycle place. Several 
loads went to the paper, glass, and plastic places. Lost more stuff 
went to Goodwill or the dump. I am all for recycling and reusing 
whenever feasible, but Jim, you are exactly right. There comes a point 
of diminishing returns. The space taken up by the stuff costs money, as 
does the time to try to resurrect or reuse parts of an item. What's my 
time worth? If I spend an hour trying to fix a $6.00 glue gun, haven't 
I  just lost money? How much money? Hourly rate x 2 - $6.00 = amount 
lost. Why hourly rate x 2? One hour working on the gun, plus an hour 
not spent working on the project. Even at $6.00 an hour I'd lose money 
in this scenario.
I'm with Jim, cut your losses (and your clutter) whenever possible and 
move on.

Christopher

On May 17, 2006, at 2:27 AM, Jimsan777-AT-aol.com wrote:

>> What kind of mentality is this?
>> I hate to throw anything away. I actually prefer to hoard 
>> "interesting materials" for future use. ...
>
>     Re: Throwing away the junk:    It's called efficiency!   I've 
> saved stuff for years, taking space, time for sorting, etc.   It's 
> costly to save everything. After a while you realize you don't have to 
> recycle everything...Just get on with your work.!!   Isn't this what 
> it's about?   Jim Gamble

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