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When you buy components, buy a bag of them. Good for when you let the smoke out of one, and you can have several projects on the go at a time.
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Problem with doing that is sooner or later you are going to end up with piles of stuff like esp12f's and such. I have more packaging tubes of ATtiny85's than I will ever use.
When I started there was lots of smoke 😀 it's true that you can easily accumulate random stuff, but I still think it's better to have spares of the things I use than risking running out and waiting for a delivery. Maybe I'm just disorganised.
These days I mostly apply it to passives. Especially small ones. 0201 are a pain to work with, liable to blow away if you look at them wrong. 0402s are better, but still easy to lose. But if I'm trying to keep size & weight down I tend to need the tiny parts, so it's easier to design to use common values as much as possible and spend $30-40 for a reel of 10,000 of them. I doubt I'll ever run out of 10kΩ resistors!