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It's not as big a loss as it looks, because now I have have leftover supplies, which will help me talk myself into doing this all over again with a new project!
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3233/
I do this at home and work. My running joke is "its about the journey, not the destination." I've gotten my coworkers to believe in that approach too, so now everyone says that about a failed project. At the end of the day you probably learned something failing and that's a win in my book.