Optimal Finance Daily · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
To combat the tendency to hoard items for potential future use, an author suggests implementing a one-year timeline for keeping an item. If an item is not used within a year, there's a high probability it will never be needed or missed.
“If this is you, then you should put a timeline of no more than a year on the item. If you don't use it in that timeframe, then there's a big chance that you will never need it or won't even miss it that much.”
“Instead of buying items that you rarely use, you may want to think about renting them or borrowing them from someone else.”