What project are you never finishing?

[Dave Gray]

I know we all have a project lying around that we mean to get to, but never will.


Mine is this cardboard R2-D2 I started building out of boxes from work.  It is really intricate and has lots of moving parts and collapsible tools inside the dome.  I haven't worked on the thing in a long, long, long time.  A co-worker's child was messing with it and ripped off some of the delicate insides, which I'd yet to fix.  I brought it home from the office around COVID and there's just no place for it in my garage.  It's just slightly too big so I have to move it all the time.  And it fell off a ledge and the legs broke off.

I could fix all of this, but I'm never going to.  And I've put a lot of time into it.

I'm kinda stuck.

Usually with things like this, I lament over them for a while and then just throw the whole thing out.

[Spider-Dan]

I can think of some projects that are going to take a while - e.g. I need to go through my collection of instruction manuals and throw out the ones for stuff I've gotten rid of - but I'm generally pretty good about eventually getting to them.

[Fau Teixeira]

I have a few paintings that i've started and then lost interest in that i won't finish, ( I do have some that i have finished )

And I've put a lot of time into it.

This leads the sunk cost fallacy, don't fall in that trap. Quitting is ok. don't toss good time after bad time.