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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Marie Kondo, fucking us all over since 2016 with her spark joy meme
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Jesse Barker | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 The payoff of actually executing a tidying festival far outweighs the inconvenience of little issues like a missing screw every 8 years
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foobarbazqux | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Mr Barker has it right.
Horading stuff against possible future need is hedging,
and subject to the same analysis.

In general, if you save something because you might need it someday,
discard it now and commit to buying a future replacement. 

Money stores as bits.
Stuff stores as atoms.