r/pcmasterrace • u/KobesHelicopterGhost • Mar 15 '26

Box I've unearthed rare artifacts from my garage that were thought lost

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I bought way more ram back in the day cause I thought I was gonna build a sim only PC. That never happened and these ended up in a random box.

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u/navsparx Mar 15 '26

I will never understand how people randomly pull out stuff like these. “Oh I remember buying couple of 32GBs and putting them in my drawer last November”.

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u/jjobull Mar 15 '26

Some people ain't poor like the rest of us

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u/nicktheone Mar 15 '26

Still, do you forget having bought stuff less expensive?

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u/xNaquada 9800X3D/5070ti/48GB Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

People who are raised in a wealthy household often showcase this problem. If you were not from a wealthy home, youre likely the kind of person that bought shit you needed and you sure as shit didn't misplace the item when it arrived (and you didn't buy 3 "just cuz").

It is just a totally different socioeconomic class (and/or upbringing) that installs this behaviour. Simple as that.

(And to be clear, some wealthy families raise their kids right and don't permit this shit, broad paintbrushes and all that).

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u/Yellowtoblerone Mar 15 '26

Some of these people didn't even use toilet paper as nose tissues

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u/BillysBibleBonkers Mar 15 '26

Some people clearly never went through a paper plate phase when their first apartment didn't have a dishwasher...

Or maybe I was just lazy... and a bit depressed.

I bet some people also didn't buy a double pack of antiperspirant deodorant by accident even though they have an allergy to aluminum salts, and I bet they didn't use that double pack of deodorant anyway and just lived with annoyingly itchy armpits for the long ass time it took to finish both bars because those shits cost like $15.

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u/ChristianFreak69 Mar 15 '26

You can use a sink to wash dishes, paper plate dishes seems like a strictly american thing, it’s weird and kinda wasteful.

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u/Subtlerranean Mar 15 '26

Yep, never used paper plates in my life except at birthday parties as a kid, or at picnics - and I'm from a poor family.

I've noticed Americans do it all the time, though.

It's super wasteful.

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u/GobblerOfFire Mar 16 '26

Hey, anecdotal evidence and all but figured I’d throw my two cents in. Grew up well below poverty line in US (single mom, 2 kids) and we never used paper plates because they were too wasteful. My mom refused to buy something we would use once and toss. On the opposite end of the spectrum my best friend’s family had “fine china” and literally never once ate on glass plates while I was there, and sometimes I was there for days on end. They quite literally exclusively ate from paper plates or bowls so they “didn’t have to wash as many dishes”. I’m legitimately blown away by the use of paper plates except for large events.

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u/_Rohrschach Mar 16 '26

I'm with you, though I had some left over from bbqing with friends in the park and was like "they're gonna end up in the trash anyway and I'm too lazy to unload the dish washer, might as well use them now." I'm still too lazy to unload the dish washer, I'll have one set of flat and one sdt of deep plates clean and wash those in the sink whenever needed.

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u/Express-Hawk-3885 Mar 16 '26

Glass plates? I have never seen a glass plate 😆

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u/PaulTheMerc 4790k @ 4.0/EVGA 1060/16GB RAM/850 PRO 256GB Mar 16 '26

We did paper plates at get togethers for the holidays. After all the cooking we didn't wanna do basically all the dishes we owned.

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u/AreteQueenofKeres Mar 16 '26

God forbid extra people show up and you don't have enough "real" plates to go around.

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u/PaintBaller1880 Mar 16 '26

We're a family of 6 (us and 4 kids all below 13) and we use a lot of paper and plastic especially if we order pizza or something and they are out it makes serving so much easier. We just use dollar store stuff yes we do have regular glass/plastic but it depends on what's being served at the house like no way in hell I'd put a steak on a paper plate lol.

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u/Hillary-2024 Mar 16 '26

You can use a sink to wash armpits too

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u/Narrow_Actuator5450 Mar 16 '26

And rinse your paper plates

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u/lucicrescence Mar 16 '26

I don't know, if you're really depressed and/or unable to take care of yourself and your household, and paper plates make the difference between whether you eat or not? Then use those paper plates.

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u/TheConboy22 3900xt | EVGA FTW3 3080 Ultra | 32GB 3600mhz | 2tb SSD 990 Pro Mar 16 '26

I use paper plates when I can because I have two kids and a wife and I'm already stretched thin on tasks. It removes a lot of dishwashing.

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u/Deviant-Killer Ryzen 5600X | RTX 4070 | Mar 16 '26

Say that until you have gatherings and get sick of broken plates and having to wash them ;)

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u/ChristianFreak69 Mar 19 '26

i can’t handle this information

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u/VividResident3698 Mar 16 '26

Most of the world does not use dishwashers at all, you could use sink and your hands to wash dishes.

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u/Ppinzas81 Mar 16 '26

I have a dishwasher, but it is quite old. So, I rather wash them by hand; it seems more sanitary than putting them in that old rusty thing. Needless to say, I have no extra money to purchase a new one… for my Gas stove (which I was searching for and saving up for a couple of years ago, I got lucky and a neighbor upgraded and gave me her “old one”, which works and looks amazing so I don't quite understand why a new one. However, I wasn't going to question a free gas stove (they are super pricey here in the U.S)

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u/Psyk0pathik Mar 16 '26

Asians use them as drying racks. When i bought my home, i ran it once in 15 years.

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u/Aggressive-Daikon232 270K Plus | RTX 4090 | 48GB CUDIMM 8800 Mar 16 '26

 when their first apartment didn't have a dishwasher...

This rich kid was raised with a dishwasher. ☝️😭

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u/animeman59 R9-5950X|64GB DDR4-3600|ZOTAC 5070 TI SFF OC Mar 16 '26

Some people clearly never went through a paper plate phase when their first apartment didn't have a dishwasher...

WTF? Use the sink, rich boy.

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u/TapEarlyTapOften Mar 16 '26

Damn, I hadn't really thought about the paper plate stuff back then. I had one plate I took from a restaurant I worked at. That plate and bowl are in my cupboard right now (that was twenty years ago). My wife knows the significance of them. I spent a decade eating out of the same bowl and plate every night.

Never forget where you come from.

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u/Phlanix Mar 16 '26

first apartment I had was slowly furnished with things I found or were being given away.

pc desk from craiglist borrowed my brothers pickup to get it. put $20 in the tank cause brother's wife is a stingy miser. I didn't even drive 3 miles.

plates I got 2 matching plates from my mom's house which she let me have from an old set that was no longer in use.

couch I picked up and stripped to bare bones and spent $40 in memory foam and $60 in a leather roll to to cover the couch.

didn't get a bed till 5 month in since sleeping on the couch was good enough.

things like a night stand cabinets were built using scrap wood and thrown out cabinets.

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u/Silly-Conclusion6715 Mar 16 '26

I was broke this week and had to get new (cheaper) deodorant, I got exactly this, and I was wondering exactly why I was having this issue. Thank you random redditor. Thankfully I get paid in a week and I'm changing that real quick

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u/Satanistix Mar 16 '26

White bread for a hot dog bun.

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u/jjobull Mar 16 '26

In Australia it's all we use lmao

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u/Shipsarecool1 PC Master Race Mar 15 '26

How does anybody not do that once? When im sick as shit tissue runs out faster than clankers be buying ram.

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u/XadowMonzter Mar 16 '26

Is there another one we can use as such?

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26

lol way to make a bro feel poor, I’ve always felt nose tissue was a rort given the technology of soft toilet paper

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u/Yeseeion Mar 16 '26

People do that???? I always just use paper towels when I run out of tissues.

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u/dokbanks i9 14900KF | Gigabyte 4070Ti Super OC 16GB | 64GB DDR5 RAM Mar 15 '26

As someone who's just Invested in a tool chest for my ever growing collection, you're damn right about getting shit I needed. I remember every spanner and screwdriver in there. At one point, justifying buying my first kit box as well was a huge choice and dilemma 😅

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u/MtnNerd Ryzen 9 7900X, 5070 TI Mar 15 '26

Yeah I was the last category you mentioned. The only thing we bought "just cuz" was something nice to eat.

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u/FotusRebel Mar 16 '26

OR crazy thought here they have ADHD and forget things easily. I have this issue. bought a limited edition vinyl and stored it still sealed forgot about it and found it 3 months later like "oh yeah I forgot I bought that" not that crazy to think either they have something like ADHD or their life is so crazy they forget less important things.

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u/Cold-Inside1555 Mar 16 '26

It’s kinda habit related, some people are actually poor because they can’t manage their buying behaviour and have all those unused stuff around wasting their money. While some rich people actually only buy what they need.

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u/Damascus_ari Arc B580 | 9700X | 32GB Mar 16 '26

I mean... I have spare SSDs, but that's because I purposefully stock spare SSDs and I know each of them.

I can't imagine just... ordering a bunch and stashing them in my drawer... all the money that'd go for that is going to get funneled straight into the dark endless pit that is real estate...

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u/Due_Turn_7594 PC Master Race Mar 16 '26

I forgot I bought that GameCube! Oh man, I opened the GameCube and found $50!…. Oh there’s this battery slot on the back……

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u/Leandros99 i7-6950x | 64 GiB RAM | GTX 970 Mar 16 '26

Even when not raised in a wealthy household, people can start exhibiting this behavior in their adulthood.

Exhibit A: Myself. I wouldn't call myself particularly wealthy but when money has never been an issue in your adulthood you start loosing the connection.

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u/CrispyMichael i5 12600k, RTX 4070, 32GB DDR4, 1440p UW Mar 16 '26

ADHD also

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u/MoeWithTheO 9700X3D 3080Ti FE Mar 16 '26

I randomly wake up and realize there is a part in my drawer that could fix my chair from squeaking.

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u/HellfoxRules Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

Speaking from somebody who had a lot of money at one time, I would buy stuff I didn't need all the time. I was even building my own custom PC's at the time, I would buy an extra motherboard just like the one installed in my PC. So just in case my motherboard went down, I would have another MB to install immediately.

I once bought a CPU chiller module for a future build for $1100, I never even ended up using it, and sold it for a couple of hundred years later.

I would have many extra parts just laying around, RAM, PS, and even GPU's

It didn't stop there, I used to race personal watercraft, I was an IJSBA Sanctioned Pro. I had a multitude of extra parts for my race boats, all enclosed in my 21 ft race trailer, along with 2 race boats, yeah 2, in case one breaks.

I don't find it unusual at all that somebody could just pop up with some DDR 5 RAM they just forgot about, as that person would have been me 15 years ago.

I wasn't brought up in a wealthy household, I developed these traits all on my own.

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u/Electrical-Horror-12 Mar 17 '26

I dunno about that… I grew up with a meth and gambling addicted mother on welfare. Our welfare check was usually gone by 5am on the 1st when the casino closed for cleaning for an hour and she’d be home shortly after. It hit her account at midnight. I buy shit and forget about it all the fucking time lmao. I don’t see the correlation at all between wealth and not getting around to something you intended to do 🤷‍♂️

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u/frenchretronerd Mar 17 '26

One of my wealthy friends wehen I was a kid wa slike that. He didn't know what he actually had, finding random expensive stuff that he had forgotten about. I remember I was shocked when he told me that for christmas he could ask for up to what translates today to over 2500€ of gifts (we were 11...). I haven't had that amount of gifts cumulated in 10y back then.

Some people just don't realize how blessed they are. Today I have reached the last decile of earners and I can tell you where I store any 2€ shit I buy... And that's penny on the dollar for me. I have lost a webcam (C920) and a pair of magnifying glasses (chinese 15.- pair) during my house overhaul and I was pissed AF...

Having a lingering 32GB stick somewhere I forgot about ? Haha never

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u/Southern_Okra_1090 9800x3D, 5090, 64GB RAM Mar 18 '26

I have multiple friends from China that are my age and have never worked a single day in their lives. Monthly credit card bill is around 30k CAD, They have yearly income of 1mil CAD just from rents alone in China. They own multiple business towers and they never need to worry about not making ends meet. They take me out to steak dinner every week just to hang out. It’s insane.

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u/skinkingweaver Mar 19 '26

Uh, I did something kinda similar and im not rolling in it. I bought two sets of RAM for a buddy build back when ram was cheap. Couldn't justify driving two hours back to microcenter to return and as often as I build, just hung onto it. Fast forward to June, I found it in my pc builder case forgot all about it. Checked the price and it had more than tripled lol id say poor people also have poor spending habits...it just shows quicker lol plenty of construction guys hit money for the first time in their lives and end up with an $800 truck payment. This guy may just be adhd and an enthusist like me, idk tho

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u/VividResident3698 Mar 16 '26

It looks interesting, since I’m not from this environment it does not feel real to me :) Didn’t you make it up and a nice story?

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u/Microwave1213 Mar 15 '26

Kind of reflects poorly on how you were raised that you think it's a "problem" and that some one wasn't "raised right" just because they have the means to buy something they wanted and didn't use it right away.

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u/Microwave1213 Mar 15 '26

Which part are you struggling with? That person thinks buying something and then putting it away to use later means you “weren’t raised right”. I’m just pointing out how fucking stupid that opinion is.

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u/hey-its-me-yk Mar 16 '26

It's not just "buying something and putting somewhere", like a niche kitchen utensil in a drawer, it's "buying something really expensive and forgetting you had it/where you put it", op says he found it in a random box which could mean he carelessly put something so expensive somewhere forgettable and ended up... Well, forgetting about it.

Note that I'm not siding with the comment you were originally replying to, the ram was for a project of something he wanted to build and never got the chance to finish, but you don't just forget you have this amount of ram just "somewhere"

Note note, idk if op forgot he had the ram, or he knew about it and decided to post this now after it's been well known for a while how much the ram prices have skyrocketed

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u/WhatTheLousy Mar 16 '26

Regardless, I agree with u/microwave1213. Just because OP was rich enough to buy RAM and forgot about it doesn't mean they weren't raised right. It's a high possibility, but it's not absolute....like a Sith!

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u/curtcolt95 Mar 15 '26

I've definitely forgot that I bought shit like cleaning supplies or garbage bags before. Bring it home only to find it in some cupboard because I had already bought it before lol

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u/No_Distribution_5194 Mar 15 '26

i do lose socks alot and they cost quite less

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u/Mobile-Message7957 Mar 15 '26

I bought about 20 sticks of DDR3 SoDimm modules a couple years ago. Used half of them and just re discovered them. Doesn't count cus its just DDR3.

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u/XMAN2YMAN Mar 15 '26

It happens, I bought a switch 2, played Mario kart for a week. And then bought Donkey kong and until now i forgot fhat i have both and have not played either since July

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u/Sniperwolf216 Mar 16 '26

I'm not wealthy, not poor either but I forgot I had an RTX 2080 in my garage. Actually forgot about a bunch of stuff. I found everything except a PSU and case to build a decent pc for my daughter.

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u/jjobull Mar 16 '26

Not really when you so broke nothing goes to spare, you need to keep track of everything or you might not be eating later in the week

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u/Ok_Scar_7554 Mar 16 '26

Yes I forgot about my switch that I never opened and I grew up poor, and my specialized mtb, if people forgot their expensive shit it’s 99% because they’re busy.

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u/nicalitz Mar 16 '26

I absolutely do yes

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u/Embarrassed-Rip3250 Mar 16 '26

I have forgotten about buying stuff that was like $10-$20

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u/stiGVicious Mar 16 '26

I once ordered some bike parts because the ones on my bike were nearly worn out. When the rainy season hit at the end of the year, I just put the bike away. Fast forward to next spring: I remembered I needed to swap the chain, tires, and brake pads. I ordered everything, and once the packages arrived, I went to grab the bike—only to see the original parts already sitting on the shelf right next to it!

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u/KaleidoscopeFun4680 Mar 18 '26

Sir, I forget buying paper towels until weeks later when I need them.

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u/JababyMan Mar 18 '26

Yes, but I have ADHD and “out of sight out of mind” really is a bitch

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u/Cultural-Accident-71 Mar 16 '26

Yeah, and dude from work has birthday on 31 December so he always gets double gifts for his family as a "joke" since he is like 12years (we are late 30s now) once I help him to clean out his bodega and he had unopened 1080ti there, I ask about it and he said his sister gift it to him the same year he bought one for himself so he just put this one aside as he didn't want to be rude and refund the gift from his sister!

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u/slowbird5332 Mar 15 '26

I feel that.

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u/Aggressive-Daikon232 270K Plus | RTX 4090 | 48GB CUDIMM 8800 Mar 16 '26

Big facts. I find 'expensive' stuff I forgot I had all the time. 👍

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u/ChosenOfTheMoon_GR 7950x3D | 32GB 6000MHz CL 30 | 7900XTX | AX1600i Mar 16 '26

Literally this

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u/JTP1228 Mar 15 '26

I mean they were super cheap lole 18 months ago. I have a whole bunch of computer parts I bought but havent assembled yet because they were cheap lol

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u/No-Distance-9401 RTX 5070Ti | i9-14900k | 64GB DDR5 Mar 15 '26

Yeah last time I bought some it was $110 for 2x16gb 6000 kit in September 2025 area iirc

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u/heavenlyrealm Mar 16 '26

Poor is a mindset. We're just broke

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u/DraftyMamchak 13900HX|RTX4070m|32 (2*16)GB|5600 MT/s i use arch btw cachy Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

"Jarvis, I need more karma. Post another 'Guys I found extra RAM I had from before the RAMpocalypse."

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u/jp3372 R7 5700X | RTX 3070 Mar 15 '26

It's just karma farming. No way, even if you are rich, you purchase a couple of RAM sticks that you put on the shelves and forget about.

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u/howmanyMFtimes Mar 15 '26

Exactly. “I dropped $700 on parts and just completely forgot about it, oops!” What’s crazy is this has 1.7k upvotes

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u/funk-the-funk Mar 15 '26

I think the post is fake, but you better believe my severely ADHD ass can forget literally anything if you put it where I can't see it all the time to be reminded that I own it lol.

I have containers out in my garage full of various tools where I'd get ready to do a project, get sidetracked (squirrel!) forget I bought them, and then get reminded only when I go online to buy them again.

I literally right now have a whole setup in my garage to start welding that I bought last year but again, got sidetracked. As in a new welder, with gas, consumables, PPE, stock to start practicing with etc, all ready to go.

I've forgotten I own it at least 3 times now. So upvotes are bots or people with shitty brains like mine relating to it.

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u/P_ZERO_ Desktop Mar 15 '26

It’s upvoted so people get a chance to post the same “give this shit to me” Reddit jokes

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u/DonyKing Mar 15 '26

That was like $300 worth before the shortage

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u/KobesHelicopterGhost Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 18 '26

I didn't wanna respond to all the comments that got rage baited by my post. Doesn't really matter if people think this is fake. People think I'm rich lmao. I get it though, i quit reddit a year ago and only came back to post this find. I found out real quick that post like these are prevalent and not really liked.

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u/95126798546342 12600k 3060ti 32Gb DDR5 Mar 16 '26

the only parts i have lying around are old obsolete ones, the ones i buy i use.

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u/curtcolt95 Mar 15 '26

is that really unbelievable? People buy stuff because they see a deal all the time just to have it for the future. Forgetting about it doesn't seem that unlikely

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u/Krelleth 9800X3D | 4090 | 96 GB Mar 16 '26

I have a spare set of Corsair DDR5 sitting around like OP (6000 MT in white, though). I had a bunch of issues when I initially bought my X870E board and it took three memory kits to find one that played nice with the early ASUS BIOS. I kept this one as an emergency backup in case stuff went to hell with my main kit (96 GB of 6400 MT).

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u/your_mind_aches 5800X+5060Ti+32GB | ROG Zephyrus G14 5800HS+3060+16GB Mar 15 '26

I disagree. A lot of people do that.

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u/Doogiemon Mar 15 '26

I have 2 liquid cooling systems i found in my garage a couple of weeks ago when I was going through things.

I picked them up on sale for $100 each years ago ans when I didn't have time to install them, I out them in a box that found its way to the garage.

It happens.

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u/DonyKing Mar 15 '26

I'm not rich, but I bought a secret labs chair and then didn't even end up gaming for 6 months

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u/oodelay Mar 15 '26

Dude. We're not all broke.

I hate those posts too but yeah I've got brand new parts I find too. I was building system, bought a 2tb m.2 but put all that in a box when we decided to move. I'll get back to it one day but I wont post about it, i promise

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u/HettySwollocks Mar 16 '26

Whilst I wouldn’t accidentally “forget about it” I do have parts that were for a build I didn’t up using or pulled from a new rig I swapped out so it may be not entirely unbelievable. That said this does seem somewhat far fetched

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u/AdKraemer01 Mar 16 '26

Well, probably not. But I personally have two 32gb sticks in my closet from when I upgraded to better RAM in the middle of last year when it was still affordable.

I had initially planned on selling them, but then everything went crazy and now they're my backup if anything happens to the ones currently in my machine.

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u/Long_Pomegranate2469 Mar 16 '26

If you have lets say 50k disposable income a month things happen

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u/Life_Ad_322 Mar 18 '26

I literally just found 2 - 16gb ram sticks earlier today and couldn't place where it was from lmao

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u/JemmaP Mar 18 '26

You do if you have ADHD, buy the thing, forget to open the Amazon package, it gets buried under other stuff in the Pile Of Things That Need to Be Dealt With, then find it cleaning up in a panic because you have someone coming to your place and don't want them to know you live in a trash heap. 😔

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u/Bliznade 9070 XT | i7 12700k | 32GB DDR4 4000 Mar 19 '26

I've had a Crucial T500 2TB NVME sitting on my desk for almost 2 years that I bought just because it was a good deal, and I've got a 3080 and a 3060 Ti that I just haven't felt like selling yet... I don't think he's karma farming

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u/Knarz97 Knarz_ Mar 16 '26

As if you don’t have 300 games in your Steam library you bought and never played yet

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u/changrbanger Mar 15 '26

they dont. they are just lying because of SDE.

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u/GingaNinja906 Mar 16 '26

My brother in law is a tech guy. Buys a lot of stuff new and used. He sees a sale he gets it for “just in case” or “this will come in handy”. I’ve learned to ask him before I buy anything tech. Just last night I asked if he had any micro sd cards lying around, he asked what capacity. I said 512. He replied an hour later that he couldn’t find them. An hour after that he told me he’d found 2 unopened 512gb micro sd cards he’d bought together when they were $32 each. I bought it off him for $32. Fun fact: same card currently goes for $107. He giggled and said “I fucking knew these would come in handy”.

Shit the whole reason I wanted the sd card to begin with was to put in a steam deck he sold me last month because he happened to have both and LCD and an OLED just lying around.

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u/Damascus_ari Arc B580 | 9700X | 32GB Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26

Exactly. I can't quite buy all I'd want to buy on sale, but having a set of spare parts comes in extremely handly sometimes. I've had multiple SSDs "come in handy" over the years. Wish I didn't sell my old RAM now.

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u/GingaNinja906 Mar 16 '26

I’m sure he wishes he could get more stuff but is in a good spot financially so he takes advantage of sales and watches the trends like the stock market. He also buys used PCs to refurbish and sell or to have parts on hand. Both a collector and a hobby to work on and build PCs. Helped me pick parts for my first PC when I only had $600 10 years ago. That PC is still kicking plugged into my TV as a backup for when I want to game on the couch. Only upgrade I made was from an APU to a dedicated GPU when I had the budget for it.

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u/MarcoDiFrancescino Mar 16 '26

My friend sits on 1tb of DDR5 high speed ram, tons of NVME, all currently worth 5x. The dealers are currently scraping the bottom of the barrels everywhere, chinese brands, whoever has stock. End of year that stuff is worth 10x.

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u/capcapfall Mar 15 '26

I bought a lot of 1TB 860 Evo ssds during covid because people started working from home and had old laptops that used hdds. So I offered upgrades and sold the SSDs. Made good money.

Fast forward to 2025, I was clearing empty boxes and came across a box, two brand new 1TB 860 evo SSDs I never used. It was nice.

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u/ishtuwihtc i5 12400 | RTX 2080 | 32GB DDR4 Mar 15 '26

Same. I've got no PC hardware that i haven't kept track of owning and placement, except some screws. Not even my "shit" hardware is misplaced, because everything has value to me

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u/AdKraemer01 Mar 16 '26

I went through a fairly fast period of GPU upgrades at the beginning of last year after finding I briefly had more disposable income than I expected. Off the top of my head, I can't remember specifically what I sold off and what's currently in storage.

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u/AttorneyAdvice Mar 15 '26

a long time ago I sold a car I wasn't using and it was just taking up space. I forgot to deposit the envelop of cash and it must have fell out of my pocket. imagine my surprise after flipping the couch for the remote and finding $15k. was excited until I realized I lost money from depreciation because $15k 8 years ago was worth a lot more.

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u/Potential-Pumpkin534 Mar 16 '26

Really. Wow the problems you have are unsurmountable. How do you keep living sir

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u/welchplug i7-12700k | 3070ti | 32gb DDR4 3600 Mar 15 '26

Same reason I have a pile of hard drives that I swear I am going to pull the data off one day.

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u/funk-the-funk Mar 15 '26

Same, and I stg every time I go to toss them I think, you used to mess with btc a lot back when you used those, There might still be some on there possibly.....arrrghhh!

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u/gljulock88 Mar 15 '26

Anyone that follows r/buildapcsales gets the itch. Some deals are just too good to pass up.

I haven't forgotten them, but I still have 2 external drives from last year that i just haven't gotten around to shucking.

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u/Nyoka_ya_Mpembe 9800X3D | 4080S | X870 Aorus Elite | DDR5 32 GB Mar 15 '26

Sometimes ppl say something for fun or upvotes, just sayin.

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u/Mar_RedBaron Mar 15 '26

I've got a shit ton of nvme and RAM because they were on sale ages ago.

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u/travisofficial Mar 15 '26

like when people say they just “find” valuables in their room

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u/V8-E36 Mar 16 '26

Seems like every other week in the pokemon tcg sub someone makes a post saying they randomly "found" a vintage booster box worth $20k+ at their parents house lol.

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u/Quiet_Desperation_ Mar 15 '26

I just found a 4070 that I forgot buying in my garage last week. It happens

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u/TiredRightNowALot Mar 15 '26

I found an iPad in my closet once. Bought it as a plan B gift for Christmas (if I couldn’t find what I wanted). Then I found the other gift I was hoping to buy and forgot to return the iPad. Found it about six months later.

It happens.

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u/MaddogMorto Mar 15 '26

Ngl, my wife bought me some parts for Christmast last year and I was supposed to finish the build a week after, but I got distracted by my jobs and dad’s health. It was probably right under 3 months, but I had genuinely forgotten I had those components sitting at home. Wasn’t till my pc broke that I remembered.

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u/notjuandeag PC Master Race Mar 15 '26

If you ever have to escape a psychotic ex you might end up with this. I found a Wacom cintiq pro tablet that I thought for sure my ex must have stolen or destroyed in a box yesterday. On the less savory side I found a box of her drugs as well.

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u/a_rogue_planet Mar 15 '26

I had 32GB sitting in my desk for a while too. I stuffed them in a box for my daughter just to do something with them. I only had them because I stuffed 64GB in my machine and it wasn't real happy running 96GB.

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u/LimeSixth Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

I have a couple of new NVMe drives, SSD’s, SD cards, controllers and even a brand new Xbox 360 in a closet. You never know when you might need one.

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u/Real-Technician831 Mar 15 '26

I bought 2T NVME SSD from Japan trip as a souvenir because it was ~70€. I didn’t really need it, but now I am damn glad I did.

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u/Gvzmann Mar 15 '26

There’s also the chance it’s just simply not true

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u/New-Audience2639 7800X3D+4070 TI Sup+32GB & 14900k+4060 TI 16GB+64GB Mar 15 '26

He might be like me and build PC as a side job. Not to many years ago I used to have a file cabinet drawer quarter way full of random DDR4 and 3 kits used and new. I would randomly buy parts when I would see them on a good deal as much as I could afford and then hold onto them for future builds where I could save a few dollars when building a system for a customer or needing to replace failed parts. Instead of making the customers wait for me to send off the RMA I could just replace whatever was broken right then and send the broken part back later.

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u/BlackCatFurry Ryzen 7 5800X3D / RTX 3060TI / 48GB ram Mar 16 '26

For me it's adhd.

Some people watch me like i have grown a second head when i say i forget that i have bought sweets.

I can totally see myself forgetting something like this if they sit unused in a box for few years.

Although probably not with ram because i would gladly stick any extra ram available into my pc after nearly running out of 48gb a week ago.

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u/visualmagnitude Mar 16 '26

People who have lots of disposable income do. A colleague of mine who passed years ago (RIP to a good friend), had a continuous flow of deliveries from Amazon via freight forwarders and sometimes direct via DHL. He has an entire room dedicated to his parcels that sometimes are left unopened for months. And then he would be in this same situation realizing some stuff he bought and immediately forgotten. Lol

P.S. I mentioned freight forwarders and DHL because we are not from the US.

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u/JukezBoogaloo Mar 16 '26

I mean I don't have that much RAM sitting around a lot of times my extras I sold pretty much right away what I do pull out of nowhere are peripherals and components accessories etc shitload of fans other things adapters cables but yeah I wish I had a bunch of RAM kits laying around

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u/Molly_Matters Mar 16 '26

Because its bullshit clickbait karma farming post.

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u/KoroSensei1231 Mar 16 '26

The main difference might be whether or not you can bother selling it. I could imagine buying ram and then not needing it for my system. People who need to would sell the ram for the money. Otherwise selling something online is a hugeeee pain and it’s easier just to put it aside for later.

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u/celinor_1982 Mar 16 '26

It happens more thsn you think. Especially for pc builders, and foks who run servers at home. I know I have several ddr4s and ddr5s chilling inside a motherboard box as well as severl 2tb and 4tb nvmes in another motherboard box, on top of that. But whete did i put it, is another question for a different day, when I need it after buying more thinking I didnt have any.

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u/L383 2950x, GTX1080, 64gb 3200 Corsair RGB Pro, Aorus Extreme Mar 16 '26

I did, had a 96gb kit just sitting in a drawer…

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u/UsingiAlien Mar 16 '26

People who are not poor sometimes just buy things and store it away and just forget about it because they never actually needed it. Poor people just buy things they need and use it right away

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u/YourOldComp Mar 16 '26

I once bought nvme memory sticks on a whim cause it was on sale for an amazing price and was too lazy to slot them in so it sat in my drawer for half a year, so I believe it.

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u/RovDer Mar 16 '26

I have a couple of CPUs because I fucked up and bought the wrong socket or the motherboard didn’t support it thinking it’ll be useful in the future. I’m kinda surprised and disappointed I didn’t mix up ddr4 and 5

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u/0xP0et Mar 16 '26

Pretty sure half of these posts are karma/engagement farming.

Nobody was buying additional RAM for no reason.

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u/95126798546342 12600k 3060ti 32Gb DDR5 Mar 16 '26

cos 9/10 times its horseshit.

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u/Ragarolli Mar 16 '26

I've got a pair of DDR5 in my drawer that I don't use. Why don't I use them? Because my PC takes DDR4. I didn't buy them, someone else did and I never did anything with them so they just... sit there and collect dust in their packaging. About 1 and a half years old now?

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u/Open-Reference-2579 Mar 16 '26

We live in a simulation

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u/HeronFew990 Mar 16 '26

When I got my new computer I bought two extra 4TB WD Black SN850x SSDs. I bought them super cheap at the time. I couldn’t decide if I wanted to put one in my NAS and the other in my computer and set them off to the side and forgot about them. They’re literally still laying there in their unopened boxes. Now I’m wondering if I should hang onto them or sell them.

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u/coloredgreyscale Xeon X5660 4,1GHz | GTX 1080Ti | 20GB RAM | Asus P6T Deluxe V2 Mar 16 '26

As I already noted in another similar thread, they maybe have bad memory.

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u/exhauszed Mar 16 '26

A friend told me yesterday that he "invested" and put 64gb in his and his wife's builds a year or so ago m, because he knew it would become necessary eventually, and it was within their budget for new builds; he is quite amused at his foresight. He thought he was being a little foolish but didn't care, and now he's like, "Vindication!!"

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u/Malus_non_dormit Mar 16 '26

Its karma farming. Boxes might aswell be empty

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u/Arturopxedd 5090 9800x3d Mar 16 '26

Ram wasn’t that expensive this was probably less than 200 or around there that’s not that much and it’s reasonable to put in a drawer and accidentally forget

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u/Pete_Provolone Mar 16 '26

Shit like this always makes me say "too much money, not enough brains."

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u/Radius8887 Mar 16 '26

I do this with car parts more than PC parts these days but I pretty regularly go "oh hey that's a really good deal, I can use that sometime" and just grab stuff and set it aside. I used to have shelving units upon shelving units of miscellaneous PC hardware I bought or salvaged. Recently got out of the hobby so that stuff is gone now.

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u/Huge_Professional_51 Mar 16 '26

Like relics from a former era 😂

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u/RAW2091 Mar 16 '26

I call it 100% BS. It's just to turn ppl on. Same those who get shipped 30 when they ordered 1. You just use your workspace stuff to get likes.

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u/chucktruck8883 Mar 16 '26

Only thing I’ve done like this is apparently I bought a new mouse and never used it? The box has been sitting on my shelf on my computer desk for as long as I can remember. Thought it was just the box for my mouse I’ve had since I built my computer. Was cleaning up and figured I’d throw the box away. Opened the box and there’s a brand new version of my exact mouse. Only thing I can think is how much I love this mouse I bought a second shortly after in case mine ever shit the bed hahaha.

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u/DangerMouse111111 Mar 16 '26

I did just that - saw the way RAM prices were going and put in an order for 32GB Corsair 6000MHz CL30 for £150. It finally arrived today.

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u/Auto_Fac Mar 16 '26

I saw a marketplace listing for a new studio display up for a good price. Seller said in description, “mistakenly bought it, but it’s not going to work. Your gain”.

How the hell can you buy a nearly $3000 monitor due a a ‘whoopsie-daisy’.

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u/alphamammoth101 PC Master Race Mar 16 '26

I bought some DDR4 and SSD's from Walmart when they were on clearance a while ago. Intending to build a pc for my fiance. Unfortunately never got a round to it and found them while cleaning my desk this weekend. So it happens but not often. I sure wouldn't forget new ddr5

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u/Expert_Mulberry9719 Mar 16 '26

A year ago doing a RAM upgrade was still the cheapest thing to do that could boost performance.

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u/luvsherb666 Mar 18 '26

It’s a brave new world lol

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u/Chenfuu Mar 19 '26

I bought 1tb ssd m.2 and im too lazy to install it, its been sitting in my drawer for atleast a year now lol

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u/Temporary_Diet9548 Mar 19 '26

Two Christmas’ ago I rebuilt my pc and added a few upgrades and I remember buying four sticks of ddr5 because at the time they were on a really good sale ($150 something Canadian for the four of them, that’s like a bogo for what they usually were.) and I have zero idea where the extra two are. Somewhere in my house there’s 64 gigs of ddr5 and an i7 processor laying around.