Good Samaritan Rule?

Tony's actions in the UK are perfectly reasonable for him, but here in SoCal I run across so much stuff that more than 95% of it goes to scrap. Of the 5% I bring home and mess with, about 75% still goes to scrap after a few months or years of storage. My problems are; Space. I am currently at a good 200% of reasonable capacity, and forced to pay an extra $30 month to park my new car on the street instead of my packed garage. The worst to me about this is that in NO WAY is the extra stuff blocking my cars parking spot worth more than a couple months of this extra $30. If I wouldn't pay that much to buy, why the heck am I keeping and pay that much? Stupid projects that bog down and tie up my workbench areas. I am frequently tempted to do what Tony does, and get myself into a real mess while I wait for a part, tool, or knowledge on how to continue. (see stupid 486 minitower below) A very reasonable course of activity for me is to take the parts I need list I find that VERY hard to do. Instead of what odd bit did you add to your collection, what was the last thing you tossed? My list for June is a yellow 13" mac RGB monitor that I couldn't get to work properly, tried to fix and broke something, plus found out it was already working and I hooked it up wrong. Item two are a couple of 486/66 minitowers that had just too many things wrong with them(bad power supplies, missing memory, bad hard drives, funky motherboards (vlb), and finally nasty old case I cut my finger on.