Been thinking on this because I recently (as in, a few months back) bought a new PC for myself for the first time in... I don't want to say but definitely more than 8 years.
It's just funny how the brain works. In the time I had my old PC, I'd gotten a XB360, a PS4 and a PS5 but I couldn't make my brain justify buying a new PC because "eh, this one still works for what I need it to do."
My old tower still had a hole in it where originally an old floppy disc drive sat. It had a hodge podge of bits none of which originally came with the tower but were bits that used to be in my brother's PC, as he upgraded then so did I. The newest bit in it was a new HDD from about 5+ years ago when I finally upgraded from XP to Win7. It had a bandaid in it, holding onto some toothpicks, so a bit of plastic didn't rattle. But it worked. Somehow, that POS still worked.
Then I started getting boot up errors on the regular so I had to farewell it. I wish I'd taken pictures of it before we tossed it to the curb for garbage pick up (the tower, that is).
When my new PC arrived, I was scared to get it out the box and turn it on for the first time. No joke.