In many ways you can't really be a consumer and a producer at the same time, you're mostly more of one than the other. It's so difficult to toe the line withou

In many ways you can't really be a consumer and a producer at the same time, you're mostly more of one than the other. It's so difficult to toe the line without leaning more one way than the other. For me I had the biggest abundance and greatest variety of elecronic components to perform repairs and hobbyist work when I had stockpiled kilos of discared circuit boards back when they were almost all still through-hole design. One man gathers what another man spills.