A funny thing about this hobby -

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I have boxes of styrene scraps...some of which are 9" long. What usually happens is I forget to put the extra back in the packaging and soon thereafter I have a large pile of assorted styrene strips. Periodically, I'll sort through them and refile them in the appropriate packaging. Recently, when building a passenger car frame (88 pieces of 4"x6" and 2"x6" styrene), I thought I'd run out of 4"x6" material until I checked the scrap boxes.

I never allow paper bags to go to the trash/recycle bins...it is too valuable. The same holds for lumber and foam scraps (and, for a while, any type of cardstock packaging material). It is a touch absurd...and I've been actively working over the past 6mo-year to do less of it.

Additionally, I am an absolute pack rat when it comes to guitar stuff, computer stuff, and any model railroad products (including used flex track and life-like trainset cars). It's all worth more to me in storage than it could ever fetch on the open market