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Screwdriver
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Beginning to wonder if this isn't some sort of mental illness (one that I certainly suffer from) brought on by the advent of easy to use world wide network access, social media and distance selling. We are so effortlessly connected and able to buy/sell/share, more so than at any other time in human history....
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roblane65
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Nope - I remember years ago waiting for the twice weekly’trade it’ to come out so I could acquire more rubbish sorry- essentials
Onoff
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I was thinking most of my acquired stuff is pre the net. Not so sure though, or of the split...
I've bought linbins, I've bought Lidl 48 drawer things like this to sort nuts and bolts:
I've got Tesco crates, I've repurposed oil 20L, rectangular oil tubs...
I keep thinking, "sort a box a night", where to put the sorted stuff though?
I try to run to the rule if I haven't used it in four years out it goes unless it is high value over say £500 to currently buy a new one , preferably for a few pounds with no gripe from me .. no interest ........ hit it with disc cutter separate to different metals , scrap the plastic to the local amenity ,once I have a 45 gallon barrel full .
Then put the sorted metals in 30 litre planters to take it to the scrappies 10 at a time .
I got £76 IIRC last time I took a load to the scrappies . Cutting armatures up to get the better clean copper proved worthwhile as I had very cheap £18 for 50 thin slitting discs that last ages .
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I will deline that kind offer thankyou...can i interest you in 4 belle cement mixers or about 16 shovels
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I try to be ruthless about stuff otherwise it just accumulates. The tip on the island was a great source, the main problem I had was getting rid of what I took home.
I've a load of 110V gear to be shifted, it's no use to me and pretty unwanted here.
I've a load of 110V gear to be shifted, it's no use to me and pretty unwanted here.
I was looking at that yesterday evening Thought yes it would be useful occasionally, but I have managed so far.Interesting update. I think I am being "Goldfished"
I just had another is it still for sale message.... View attachment 526488
Thats where he allegedly lives. Lol
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They say admitting it is the first step so here goes...
But first, as far as hoarding goes you lot are AMATEURS!
My garage was already a tip when I had to further turn it upside down to make access for fitting the new cu and EV cabling. I had to take a little angle iron chipboard shelf unit down that I'd made to drill through the slab etc. Over the weekend I managed to refit the uprights and just ONE shelf, luckily
That’s not a lot of gear, it’s just a mess. If you could be arsed most of that would condense down into a few stacking boxes. A mad weekend and a bit of determination would sort that.
Bob
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No cherry picking. Where do you draw the line? Whole lot, in the wheely bin.
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Just to add that FBMP buyer behaviour in general local buy/sell general items has definitely changed over the last couple of years .....lots of no shows, more price chiselling, careless "is it available" msgs as people scroll on their phone (many ads now say they won't reply to those), people that start a chat and suddenly leave it without a word.
It's just the way it is. Block and move on...the genuine buyer comes along eventually (but IMO furniture items always hang around for ages and it's difficult to achieve any kind of decent money. ). My record was selling an old £40 vice - about 8 buyers over a period of 6 months all said they'd come to look and others offered £20 which I rejected. The last one who bought it actually turned up and paid 40. But all that time I didn't care bc it was sitting in a pile in the garage doing nothing. It's a lot of messing about for 40 quids though
It's just the way it is. Block and move on...the genuine buyer comes along eventually (but IMO furniture items always hang around for ages and it's difficult to achieve any kind of decent money. ). My record was selling an old £40 vice - about 8 buyers over a period of 6 months all said they'd come to look and others offered £20 which I rejected. The last one who bought it actually turned up and paid 40. But all that time I didn't care bc it was sitting in a pile in the garage doing nothing. It's a lot of messing about for 40 quids though
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I have similar with my Dad's stuff - he kept all sorts of screws, nails, bolts, springs, all sorts of random things in some cases I've no idea where they came from because he wasn't really much of a tinkerer. The big problem was that he just shoved them all in whatever box or tin was to hand, without regard to what they were. I remember telling him I was just going somewhere to get some screws to finish something, he said "don't buy them, I've got loads of screws" and showed me a wooden drawer full of pill boxes and plastic tubs, none of which were marked, and all of which contained a mixture of stuff. Sure, it was probably all there, but he'd never spent the time sorting it into some sort of order. I'm now doing that (threw my / his first old rusty dented tin can on the scrap last week) but I haven't got a lot of space to spread everything out, and when it's done, it'll take more room, but at least I'll be able to find stuff.
I try to put stuff onto one of the local Facebook recycling groups if I'm giving it away, and it'll generally go, and if it doesn't go in a reasonable time then I dispose of it, I just don't do it often enough. I put some old computer books on the other day, all out of date stuff but just a try because it's better than skipping them all, and I got someone who wanted one of them. I sent him the collection address, told him I'd got another SQL book he could have, left them out, and nothing. I sent a few chase-ups, but his profile said he'd been to university in Nigeria and all his posts were religious stuff. Non-collection is a no-no in that group so that earned him a suspension, and I blocked him. But I don't understand why he'd even be in a group for free things in this area if he's not in the country. I understand the scam above, pay too much and ask for a partial refund then find the first payment bounced, but one of the rules of the group we were in is that everything is free, so it wouldn't work. It's just a waste of everyone's time.
Get angry.
I get to a stage where I get fed up at not being able to find something and it gets me angry, then I use that anger to ruthlessly fill the bin or the car boot for the tip.
There’s probably a couple out of hundreds things that I’ve regretted getting rid of, and they’ve gone so there’s nothing I can do about it anyway.
I get to a stage where I get fed up at not being able to find something and it gets me angry, then I use that anger to ruthlessly fill the bin or the car boot for the tip.
There’s probably a couple out of hundreds things that I’ve regretted getting rid of, and they’ve gone so there’s nothing I can do about it anyway.
Smallfry
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Here is exactly the same, more or less. My bench is full of stuff just like that. Odd boxes full of useful things ......or they may be one day. If you pick up one of those containers of assorted tat and bin it, you will never miss it. I find doing it though, is another thing altogether.They say admitting it is the first step so here goes...
But first, as far as hoarding goes you lot are AMATEURS!
My garage was already a tip when I had to further turn it upside down to make access for fitting the new cu and EV cabling. I had to take a little angle iron chipboard shelf unit down that I'd made to drill through the slab etc. Over the weekend I managed to refit the uprights and just ONE shelf, luckily at nom bench height:
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I'm pretty much always on a knife edge at the moment and the littlest thing sends me spiralling. Tonight's main one was I couldn't find my M20 electrical tap. I'd gone in just to link this two 2 gang boxes with a coupler.
Everywhere I look there are linbins, cardboard boxes, totes and buckets full of stuff:
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This is my bench at the moment:
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I bet you haven't got a spare house, garage and small workshop full of stuff as well though ? I have
Why do I keep it ? It was mums house, and she died in 1995. It costs a couple of grand a year to keep it, but thats a lot less than Big Yellow storage, and the other reason is that in the back of my mind, I have somewhere to go if SWMBO chucks me out.
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I think I can, my grandparents kept left over egg shells in a drawer for slug repellent.
Keeping stuff is genetic I’m sure it is.
I reckon there’s mileage in a tv series spin off ‘hoard do you think you are?’
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My dad was the same, but it was more out of neccesity as he never had well paid jobs so if some nails could be recycled for a job around the house it saved buying new ones.
