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Ehh, if you're not doing analogue stuff how specific do you really need? And even if you do you can combine a few to get closer to what you need. Like if you have 220/390R & 1k & 10k & 1M on hand, are you really ever going to be that annoyed for breadboarding purposes that you don't have 680R or whatever?

I think that I could go for an entire decade not needing any passives other than powers of ten except for power supply work when you need an exact ratio for feedback.

But analog tinkerers do things that are very different from what I do!

Or a set of good pots?

Yeah, resistor kits. Supplement them with an ample supply of 1K and 10K resistors.

E12 resistor kit (86 values * 10pcs) is $6 on AliExpress.

Don’t buy resistors on aliexpress. They tend to be steel legged and go rusty invisibly leading to all sorts of weird problems. Also some of the tend to be mislabelled.

Spend on some decent ones. Tayda sell decent quality Royal Ohm ones for not much money.

Better to just DIY an E6 kit on there.