As I proceed into my frugal ways and overall badassity, I have noticed a cool tendency. I looked back to my grandparents when we cleaned out their estate. They never made much money. Gramps worked for a small village and never made more than $12/hr. He was a WW2 vet. Ironically they both had college degrees in education that never got used. How did they do it? They always had 1 1/2 cars... A good car and a beater work car. Gardening was huge. They literally only bought meat and milk. One "good" everything. One hammer, one shovel, one lawnmower. These goods were made back when quality was easy to find.
I came home and looked at my heap of trash... 8 hammers, a box of junk screw drivers, ton's of "sale & clearance" junk that was too good of a deal to pass up. I dumped it all out on the floor, organized it, kept the good, gave away and true out the cheap Chinese junk. I was literally using three bad ones to get by. What I ended up with was 1/3 the volume, two nice extra "tool kits" and a rock solid set of professional grade quality tools. I now have a very different outlook on tools. When one breaks I buy the best one I can find and keep it.
Sporting goods came next. I literally got rid of 1/2 of my stuff. What is left is very high quality and durable goods. Gave the rest away to my friends kids to get them started.
Next up is the kitchen. The wife is gonna freak out. I'm tired of cleaning, maintaining and storing 12 of everything. In the cheap trash disposable society that we now live in, it is very easy to hoard trash that fails when we need it the most resulting in another purchase to finish the job.
I was in the planning and design phase of a shop/barn. It needed to be huge to "accommodate" everything. It is now 1/2 the size and way more feasible. I want to thank everyone in the community and give MMM a big thanks for saving me from myself!!!!