If I were in my sixties it would be wise to decrease my inventory of needless stuff I will never use. I grew up in an eastern Oregon farm community where old stuff was recycled into creative new uses. It sat around (sometimes for a very long time) before it was needed to repair something or to be modified for a new purpose. A saver mentality is not an asset for what I do and where I live.

But building that bicycle-powered paddle boat with my son and a friend of his using stuff from the shed was fun and fulfilling.