arther dailey
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you sent that sash clamp to the tip , shame on youJust found a pic showing the contents of the shed that went to the tip, nice wooden chest but I had no where to put it
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Morrisman
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Mate of mine goes to a big car boot sale everyThursday. Just before it closes a couple of big house clearance kiosks there let everything they have left go for free.
He’s like a rat up a drainpipe then, throwing anything made of wood into the back of his van, to take home for the log burner.
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It only had one clamp and I went through everything looking for the other one before consigning it to the tip
Morrisman
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As a teenager I was determined I was going to travel a lot, and I wanted to document my life so I could look back on it all when I got old and feeble, and happily reminisce on everything. As a result I have thousands of photos, digital and paper.
Trouble is that now that I am old and feeble, looking at the pics just makes me a bit sad, sad that so many fun times have gone, and will never happen again.
My daughter might find a few of them interesting, as she is in a lot of them, our life in the far east, but most will be meaningless to her.
And then there was that box of certain, er, risqué photos I took in my early years in Asia, photos that no daughter would ever want to see of her dads past.
I disposed of them when sailing into Saudis waters many years ago, as we had been alerted that the immigration, customs, police etc, would swarm the ship and search everything. Late one evening I took a walk up the helideck, had a last nostalgic look at the pics of so many girls I (very briefly) knew, and chucked the lot over the side.
And a gust of wind blew them back all over the deck, and I spent an hour with a torch rushing around trying to find every last one of these somewhat incriminating piccies
Pigeon_Droppings2
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Some items serve as a life reminder but they don't have any real value...when I'm gone they'll end up in the skip.
Other items have value or use to the right person...for me it's important that I give these a deserving home so that they don't end up in the skip....even if it means letting go of them while I'm still around.
Other items have value or use to the right person...for me it's important that I give these a deserving home so that they don't end up in the skip....even if it means letting go of them while I'm still around.
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Smallfry
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My Great Aunt was exactly the same. Aspidistra on a stand and all !
What gets me most is the photos. I have boxes and boxes of them, and also many transparencies. All those people who have been and gone. Most of which I have no idea who they were, and the people I could have asked are all gone too
Then there is the knowledge that I will join their ranks one day, and no one will even care after a couple of I also have a couple of brown tartan woollen blankets, that feature heavily in many family photos from early last century. They were a wedding gift to my great grandparents. My son lives overseas, and is not the slightest bit interested.
Typing this, I have just realised they are 117 years old !
When was the last time you saw tea chests?! As a kid, they seemed to be everywhere for storage, moves etc.Just found a pic showing the contents of the shed that went to the tip, nice wooden chest but I had no where to put it
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Smallfry
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Actually not a bad idea. Would it still be liable for inheritance tax if the policy was in their name/s ?
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Why wait for the funeral, it would save the cost of the cremation
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Dark subject matter, but if you dont laugh about it, theres only tears left!This is cheerful !!
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These are a life times memories of things “done”. One thing to remember when your sat in the wipe clean chair in the old folks home watching TV, things will come on TV to spark a memory of what you actually did. Many of the others will be sat there thinking I wish Id done more, their minds filled with the regrets of not doing what they dreamed of.As a teenager I was determined I was going to travel a lot, and I wanted to document my life so I could look back on it all when I got old and feeble, and happily reminisce on everything. As a result I have thousands of photos, digital and paper.
Trouble is that now that I am old and feeble, looking at the pics just makes me a bit sad, sad that so many fun times have gone, and will never happen again.
My daughter might find a few of them interesting, as she is in a lot of them, our life in the far east, but most will be meaningless to her.
And then there was that box of certain, er, risqué photos I took in my early years in Asia, photos that no daughter would ever want to see of her dads past.
I disposed of them when sailing into Saudis waters many years ago, as we had been alerted that the immigration, customs, police etc, would swarm the ship and search everything. Late one evening I took a walk up the helideck, had a last nostalgic look at the pics of so many girls I (very briefly) knew, and chucked the lot over the side.
And a gust of wind blew them back all over the deck, and I spent an hour with a torch rushing around trying to find every last one of these somewhat incriminating piccies
Many folk now spend their life watching other folks dreams on TV / uTube not out there making their own memories.
Some very wise words there; very wise indeed.
My parents sit around thinking of reasons not to do things. It drives me mad; before they know it, they won't have a choice but to sit around waiting to die.
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Well this took a dark turn, didn't it?
I'm going to have a big clear out so I can properly enjoy the possessions I really love or need, and let the rest go to others who might love/need them now I don't. It's hard to let go of who you used to be - a traveller, an artist, a craftsman, a voracious reader - but if the physical remnants of that don't serve you well in your life as it is now then it's OK to let them go.
I'm going to have a big clear out so I can properly enjoy the possessions I really love or need, and let the rest go to others who might love/need them now I don't. It's hard to let go of who you used to be - a traveller, an artist, a craftsman, a voracious reader - but if the physical remnants of that don't serve you well in your life as it is now then it's OK to let them go.
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My son’s partners mother is 93 & lives in annex to their property. She moved from an overfull 3 bed house & won’t get rid of anything, my son’s double garage plus a workshop is stuffed to the brim with her stuff & she won’t allow any to go to the tip, says she might need it. Drives my boy up the wall, all this space & can’t use it.
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If I ever get a heads up that I'm on my way out, I'll probably PM @dobbslc my address, with a quick message saying: Bosch tools, get your @rse here now.
That's those rehomed.
Why thank you sir, that's most generous!
Now where did I put that bottle of slow acting cyanide?
