[sdiy] Digikey bags

[mark verbos]

Now is as good a time as any to ignite the Synth-Diy equivalent of Mac vs. PC…..
Why would anyone choose DigiKey over Mouser? Is this a Canadian thing? The search engine sucks and the prices are higher! ( not that it matters if nothing is in stock until July 2022)

Mouser also gives its customers a ludicrous amount of packaging, especially bags. 

Mark



> On May 27, 2021, at 9:01 AM, David G Dixon via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
> 
> Hey SDIY Team,
>  
> Sorry to interrupt all the Monty Python riffing, but I've got a fairly unconventional question, which I would guess many of you have also pondered:
>  
> What do you do with all of your Digikey bags?
>  
> I just ordered 100 each of about 54 different values of 1% resistors for my two Dome filter designs, and I transferred the resistors from the bags they came in to the bags I already had brightly labelled in red Sharpie ink.  Somehow, I seem to be left with what looks like about 2000 empty bags.  Some of the resistors were packed in 10 bags of 10 inside a bigger bag.  Some were in 4 bags of 25 in a bigger bag.  Quite a few were in a small bag of 100 placed inside a bigger bag with an identical label.
>  
> I can imagine blue Digikey bags flowing out of my doors and windows like so much flood water if I make too many more Digikey orders.  I've already got shoeboxes of the damn things stored all over my garage.  I hate just dumping them in the recycling bin, or (heaven forfend) the trash.
>  
> Cheers,
> Dave Dixon
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