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>50% of my garage workshop is from bulk buys from hamfests and machine shop auctions

Is there a cure for this disease?

Mine will only be cured by my death. Hopefully not prematurely under a tipped over pile of test equipment...

Some sort of organizational method. I've thought about it alot, its more of an inventory system with an unknown amount of items and categories.

Simple things become organizational nightmares forcing you to rethink you're bench layout for example: I put my LM317s in a small bin because I only had 3 but now I have a bag of 300, I guess I need to get a bigger bin, or do I just use the small bin and save some for later but where, but how many, how do I know how many I have in total?

I fight with this a lot. Best solution I've found is add a 'bulk' label to the bin so I know to refill from my 'warehouse' stockpile when something gets low.

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