Reading the comments here makes me feel guilty. I'm sitting on probably a few hundred files and folders called something like tmp, tmp1, foo, foo23, foobar, testxyz, etc...
They all hold probably very irrelevant stuff and are safe to delete, and I have yet to resort to those files for rescue, but you never know! Every now and then I collect them and put them in an archive folder. I'm now at "archive10".