I had a colleague ( not in my IT part f the work) who could not bare to see anything thrown out. Anything.
On our annual clear out we'd have a skip. My rules were; If you couldn't have found it when you needed it* there was no point keeping it and, If in doubt, chuck it out.
As quickly as I put stuff in the skip she'd be taking it out again. It became a kind of disposal arms race.
*I'd ask her, "Did you even know we had this?" or "Did you have any ideas where it was?".
The answer was invariably, "No, but..."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
