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My mom had me take out most of my electronics stuff I had stored in various rooms throughout the house and put it into the garage to be sorted: Stuff I'll take to college (obviously very little), trash, and stuff to keep at home (I'm constrained to one shelving unit in the garage plus my room). Originally, the garage floor was clean. Do I qualify as a hoarder? I honestly didn't think it was this bad! I don't even know what to do with it all.
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most of those boxes look empty.
try to organize and group stuff best you can, pack the boxes full to the top, and slap a list on the side that says what's in it. Then stack them. Should be able to fit most of that in a small area, stacked several boxes high, against a wall.
Beer bottle boxes work well when you fold all the flaps inside of them.
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I had to do this about 6 months ago after selling my house. After sorting through 15 years of accumulated stuff I started getting fairly brutal. Only irreplaceable or valuable or immediately useful things got kept. I had a big box full of broken PC power supplies ffs - untouched in all that time! I took 6 trailer loads of crap to the tip!
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Camp Badger wrote ...
I honestly didn't think it was this bad!
That's not bad, it's good.
When I got to this stage I sorted things into boxes i.e. mains transformers in one, ferrite parts in another, etc... it sounds obvious, but it's the only way you'll ever actually be able to use all the stuff you have hoarded.
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Do cull the truly useless stuff though. Leaves room for future goodies. e.g. I had kept a number of broken appliances, with thoughts of cannabalising for parts - better to pull out the usable bits NOW and throw the rest away.
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I still have a lot to do (mostly desoldering) but I was able to organize the electronics I'm bringing to college! Including my tools for my cell phone repair business!
Luces, then would that mean all coilers are hoarders? I know I keep all my stuff. I don't even throw away my papers. One day I can sell my old discontinued toys for a ton of money, and make a handsome profit. Maybe that's what you should do. Organize the stuff into a big box, make it sit nice and neat inside so you can put more stuff into it, and keep it for 30 years, and then sell the parts. xD
If you're confined to one shelf, take off the shelf, and make your own little shelf out of wood. You'd be able to store more, because it is custom, and you could add more parts to it upwards and outwards if you need it. If you really don't want to throw anything away, make a rotating box thing, like they have in hardware stores. I find it hard to throw anything away x3.
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