Peaches, gotta admit, I have to fight that instinct as well. Having seen how much my stepfather Dave had, the house is still filled with crap he never got rid of, no matter how much throwing-out has been done in the years since he died.
But seeing the stuff he's kept, Mom has kept, how my aunt was ... it's just not worth it. I think the same way, or used to. Hey, never know when I might need XYZ, better keep it. Either you don't ever need it, or, like the apple corer, yeah, eventually you do ... think is, that's one item out of probably a few hundred things kept. Easier to just buy a new one ten years down the road and not keep everything else.
My stepdad kept everything. If a blender broke, he'd not just replace it, he'd keep the old one with the thinking "if the new one breaks, I can take pieces off the old one" to fix it. What would actually happen is, eventually the new one would break, the latest "new" one becomes the "newest old one", and he'd have five old broken blenders in the basement.
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