"You can hold onto something for decades, and neither you nor anyone else will
ever have a use for it, but then just as
soon as you throw it out, either you will suddenly need it for something, or --- even more 'painful' --- **someone else** will come to you and humbly ask, 'Do you happen to have an
extra ___?'" Rrrrrggggghhhhh----!!!
I'd had a couple of old 55-gallon
oil-drums stashed in da garage for da past thirty years --- my grampa had given 'em to me when he and Gram were downsizing to move into an assisted-living apartment --- and they'd just sat there and gathered dust in da corner all that time. But then just two days --- TWO STINKIN' DAYS!! --- after I'd sent 'em to da crusher for recycling, a low-income neighbor dropped by and asked me if he could have them to use as
burn-barrels --- guess dat was a classic case of
Murphy's Law of "
Junk" at work!!