My mom and dad lived in the same house from 1962 to the day they died a couple of years ago. Being a depression-era child, he saved everything he thought might be useful one day. It took four of us a long, long time just to clean out the garage. It got to the point where we just gave up, ordered a dumpster, and tossed stuff in whether it was useful or not.

My sisters saved a whole lot of crap, so now their garages are bursting at the seams and waiting for they day they pass and hand the problem to the next generation. I'm not going to do that to my family/friends if I can help it.

Buy it, enjoy it, move it along. Those NOS parts aren't doing you any good sitting in a coffee can under 20 years of National Geographics behind 4 boxes of your old bowling trophies. If you don't use them, eventually someone will get them for next to nothing after you croak, or they'll end up in a land-fill.

Use them.