Frankly, I have to admit I don't care that much about static electricity when working with electronics. Back when I had to handle electronics at work, yeah I used antistatic shoes and such antistatic wrist thingie because I was forced to, but overall... And I recall others there handling electronics not-so-carefully as well, like taking memory chips out of the antistatic bag and just keeping them on their bare palm as if they were pieces of sugar or something.

For instance, one or two weeks ago I opened up my laptop fully, to clean it up inside and change the two fans (one of them had gotten broken). I mainly just made sure I don't touch to any electronics with the screwdrivers or such, but otherwise I didn't care much, and as far as I can tell I didn't break anything. :)

I guess I've been lucky, handling lots of electronics without much of antistatic protection, and never breaking anything. One exception: I did fry one hard drive once, by putting it exposed on a desktop PCs case. I guess the case zapped the circuit board on that hard drive. Not sure what would have helped against it, maybe touching the PC case with my other hand before putting the hard drive on it?

Maybe it also helps that I prefer using 100% cotton clothes most of the time (my t-shirts etc.), maybe they help against building up static electricity.

BTW, are the electric sockets at your homes all grounded? My apartment was built in the 80s, and back then here grounded sockets were usually built only into bathrooms and kitchens (where there is water), while all the other sockets are ungrounded. I believe in new apartments nowadays, all sockets are grounded, but that wasn't the case just a few decades ago. So yeah, I normally use all my PCs in non-grounded sockets.