Fortunately digital content rots extremely slowly, especially if emulation is available. Physical stuff sometimes does, the more chemical or advanced it is, the

Fortunately digital content rots extremely slowly, especially if emulation is available. Physical stuff sometimes does, the more chemical or advanced it is, the more it rots. With physical things it really depends on what you save. I personally tend to keep a bunch of hardware around many people would not. Some of those things will most definitely go out of usefulness date before I get to them, but are hard to get anyway so weird to get rid of. These are liable to become useless. Others are older spare parts that would not, but I cannot be bothered to sell them just yet... They might go out of style and become useless, but are likely to keep their value. Yet more are some pieces for plans the didn't pan out yet, but they might. These won't break or might get used for something else. And a few fixable broken things that are not quite junk. These might get fixed depending on requirements. I literally have a box called wire box, and another which is a whole bunch of audio cables. That's a lot of copper. It proved useful for a variety of purposes thus far. That is different from my mom's minor hoarding in that she keeps things that will not get used for anything ever, look cute but are horrible to keep, and additionally I do regularly clean out total junk... The new meta is to give stuff to people who will make use of it.