I'm not a packrat at all. Despite the fact that I tend to have "piles" of stuff around the house, it actually drives me crazy and I spend half my time trying to get myself organized (yes, I fully see the irony in that). In fact in the last few weeks I've undertaken a massive spring cleaning and am in the midst of putting essentially 1/3 of our household possessions on Craigslist purely because I can't handle the clutter.
But there is an argument for keeping stuff from time to time. For example, a few years ago I bought a small, relatively expensive machine I thought I would need for my packaging. It turns out that I didn't need it but didn't want to toss the machine either so it's been with me for two years and one move cross country.
However, as I've been developing this newest product, I was working on the packaging and realized that what I needed was said machine. Not only does this mean I save the cost of having to order a new one, but - and more importantly at this time - I save myself the time of finding and ordering the machine since I'm under a rather tight deadline. So instead of waiting for the machine to come in and hoping that it actually works in the way I need it to, I've been able to test it out right away and determine that yes, it does work! Now let's hope I don't find I need any of that other stuff I sold on Craigslist.
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