Keeping something “just in case” eventually creates a thousand cases to organize.

The just-in-case instinct feels prudent one item at a time. Multiplied, it produces a house full of maybes, each requiring space and a future decision, and the cost of managing them exceeds the rare occasion any of them gets used. Prudence at scale becomes its own burden.

Try putting a limit on the category rather than judging each item. One box for spare cables, one shelf for maybes, and when it is full something leaves. A boundary does the deciding for you, which is far easier than deciding a hundred times.