I used to just stack old cans in the corner of the garage and tell myself I would use them someday. After reading your post I looked up my city's rules and found out we have a household waste site that takes paint for free on certain Saturdays. What changed my mind was learning that latex paint can actually be dried out with kitty litter or paint hardener and then tossed in the regular trash, as long as the lid is off. Oil based paint is the stuff you really have to take in, and most places that charge per can only charge for that kind. I had 20 cans taking up shelf space that could have gone out with the trash years ago. Now I only keep one can per color and write the room name on the lid with a sharpie.

Read a thing once about how half the stuff that goes viral was filmed by some random person who had no clue what they were looking at. Like those early clips of tiny bands playing to empty rooms before they blew up, or some hole in the wall taco spot that people drove right past for years. Idk, I feel like we all have that one blurry video or photo sitting on an old phone that we took just because something looked odd that day. The funny part is you almost never know at the time, you just think it's weird and move on with your life. Hope you find that cracked phone, that clip is probably worth way more now than it was back then, even if it's just for the story.