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I find the plastic ones break easily, but the old style wooden ones last much longer.
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Look around your house right now. The junk drawer that won't close. The closet you can't walk into. The garage so full you park in the driveway. The box of cables you "might need someday" that you...
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That is a good book. It's the sequel to this one, which is cheap on Kindle atm.
I think I've recommended them on here before. There's a lot to be said for the gentle Swedish death clean but sometimes you have to face the fact that your kids don't want your 40 year old radio, even if it did come from your nan, and they don't want those cut glass bowls you got as a retirement gift either. You don't even like them so who are you saving them for?*
* I say this as someone who kept a pair of cut glasses in a fancy box in a cupboard for 15 years. They were a leaving present from someone I didn't like but it seemed mean to get rid. Gave them to charity in the end. I also kept 2 of the fuggliest cement plant pots you've ever seen in a garage for 10 years until we moved house. Also a gift. It's mad how your mind works. Get rid. You'll stop caring once it's gone.
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I think I've recommended them on here before. There's a lot to be said for the gentle Swedish death clean but sometimes you have to face the fact that your kids don't want your 40 year old radio, even if it did come from your nan, and they don't want those cut glass bowls you got as a retirement gift either. You don't even like them so who are you saving them for?*
* I say this as someone who kept a pair of cut glasses in a fancy box in a cupboard for 15 years. They were a leaving present from someone I didn't like but it seemed mean to get rid. Gave them to charity in the end. I also kept 2 of the fuggliest cement plant pots you've ever seen in a garage for 10 years until we moved house. Also a gift. It's mad how your mind works. Get rid. You'll stop caring once it's gone.
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I think tbh SWMBO found out copy whilst tidying up and having a clearout out here. Inside the house is as bad. She collects "nice" cardboard boxes that "might come in handy":
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I must be on a high from clearing up last week and have gone into the garage to sort all the stuff from my uncles garage that ended up here, lots of scrap brass and copper now ready to be weighed in and old metal, but a bit of treasure was found, my grandads fishing medals and a wooden sword made by my dad for my uncle when he was 10, it was years before I was born and is now safe in the house, I think a few moew weeks and the lathe will be in a permanent place.
Unwanted Christmas presents - they sit by the sofa in the corner of our front room until, and sometime beyond the next Christmas, if ever there was a reminder not to do it...
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Skip and clear the lot, youll all feel uplifted by it!
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Dig it out and come to mine for coffee, our house is named Denby!We were given a Denby coffee service for a wedding present. It’s still wrapped up in a crate in the garage. Never been used since we got married, it’s only been 53 years, there’s time yet
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We were given a Denby coffee service for a wedding present. It’s still wrapped up in a crate in the garage. Never been used since we got married, it’s only been 53 years, there’s time yet
That sounds good, we really must get round to selling it though …… sometime
My mum kept so much stuff as "it's valuable" - numerous coffee sets that I'd never seen included.
It probably was, once.
Few quid at auction in a basket of a load of other stuff. I'd have saved money taking it a shorter distance to the tip.
If you need it for a known task, project, job, then keep it.
If you rescued it from the skip/roadside/someone with more sense than you as you thought it was worth money/too good to bin, but you've kept it 5, 10, 50 years, then like my dad, you've probably spent more money moving it between new houses, storage facilities, keeping it dry and warm , then you'll ever make back from it. Especially, if like both my mum and dad, you kark it before flogging it.
Bin it like the original owner, and get your life back and do something you enjoy.
Or you might as well flog the project you intended to enjoy, as you'll never get to that either.
It probably was, once.
Few quid at auction in a basket of a load of other stuff. I'd have saved money taking it a shorter distance to the tip.
If you need it for a known task, project, job, then keep it.
If you rescued it from the skip/roadside/someone with more sense than you as you thought it was worth money/too good to bin, but you've kept it 5, 10, 50 years, then like my dad, you've probably spent more money moving it between new houses, storage facilities, keeping it dry and warm , then you'll ever make back from it. Especially, if like both my mum and dad, you kark it before flogging it.
Bin it like the original owner, and get your life back and do something you enjoy.
Or you might as well flog the project you intended to enjoy, as you'll never get to that either.
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You would be surprised at the prices that Denby attract. Have a browse on Ebay.
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I keep cardboard boxes (and grab them off Facebook when people have moved house) but then I send quite a lot of stuff out in the post. Though when I do that, I tend to wrap stuff in cardboard as the boxes are always the wrong shape or size, so any old cardboard would do. I was keeping margarine tubs ready for when I get around to sorting everything into categories, but I've had to start throwing them out now as I've got too many. And that's while they are empty and stack inside each other - it's anyone's guess where I'll be able to fit them once they've got actual stuff in them.
It's a never-ending job keeping on top of this stuff, though sometimes with me it's a never-starting job.
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I keep ice cream tubs which are slightly bigger and stronger than marge tubs for the same reason, must have 30 or 40 of them now, in my defence I did sort some stuff into 2 of them last year
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Commercial marge tubs from the local sandwich shop are perfect for keeping all sorts of things in, airtight too.
They vary in quality, but the good ones are tougher than ice cream tubs.
Probaly around 4L in volume.
Takeaway tubs are useful too.
The 14L tubs from poundland are great for sorting stuff and have a lid. Used to be cheap too but were £3 the last time I bought some and local branch hasn't had them for a while.
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A lenor bottle is hard to use i prefer a bit more comfort, its a fabric conditioner jokeA relative of mine & his wife use a Lenor bottle in there campervan for a pee. Not quite sure how, she must have a good aim
