I used to have boxes of it.  And I used the parts too!

Now I simply don't have the room for it - well most of it.  I had to trash all but the essentials.

Well... My habit started in 8th or 9th grade.  It just seemed like most things I pulled apart, I could fix.  I had a reputation for it and people started giving me broken stereos, TVs, game systems, lawn mowers... You get the picture.  The ones I could not fix, I kept some of the vital parts - I never pulled resistors and crap...

I resold many of the fixed items and by the time I was seventeen I had a mini-14, a Beretta 92FS, a Taurus 9mm (the beretta copy), a Rem. 870, and several .22s.  I had  my own apartment (apartment was paid for by my job, not the repair work) with one wall in the living room that lives on in legend for those that saw it...hehe  I wish I had pictures of it.

The 8x12 wall looked like it came straight out of a science fiction movie.  I had built a stereo from broken components - most of it was tube technology and old Pioneer parts.  I could hook up 10 pairs of speakers to it, though I never had more than 3 pair at any one time.  It had 5 volume knobs so that I could control amplification at every stage and avoid distortion - It sounded incredibly clean.  There were 5 TVs on that wall too, different sizes and placed randomly.  There was a gutted video recorder there so during parties I often had one or more TVs playiung what was happening in the room, another TV playing cartoons, another playing war movies, another with infomercials, whatever.  Seemingly random lights and a spaghetti mess of wires, sound activated light patterns, etc.  Usually, blasting throught the confusion of this wall would be the loudest, cleanest Pink Floyd you had ever heard.  There were many random items to add to the confusion, and even a fog machine I made, but it was too loud to use it often.  Most people that walked into my apartment for the first time would make it to the living room, see that wall, and just stop and stare at it for a while.

I also had a car and two motorcycles at the time, much of which were paid for by the repair work.  Saving parts paid off for me... [:)]

Being a ham radio nut, I have a junk box that could fill a pickup bed. It is fun to build a complete radio from parts of broken household stuff, or any complete project.

A few years ago a build a QRP (low power) transciever from junk parts taken mostly from and old VCR, an old crystal scanner, and some old stereo's... it put out out about 1/3 watt on 10m CW, and I made contacts in about 30-35 states and 7 countries on it before the final tranistors died because I was overdriving them with my design.... one day I will dig it out and get it back on the air.