Whenever I have a clear-out, I end up regretting it and spend time and money trying to get the stuff replaced - usually sheet music I thought I'd never need again.
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Someone local suggested to me this morning, that one reason for our local dump not selling stuff might be suspicion regarding takings being pocketted by the workforce!Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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Yup - that sounds familiar.Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
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You are William Morris, re-incarnated - and I claim my 2/6!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
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No - I am possessed!Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostYou are William Morris, re-incarnated - and I claim my 2/6!
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Anyone hear Howard Jacobson's R4 essay Going into Storage this evening - very pertinent to this Thread:
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A very timely posting as I have indulged my passion for auctions yet again and need an argument to justify the purchase - a picture.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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Many years ago I worked as a bus conductor for a short period of time. I have a bag which contains the badge I wore, and I think my primary school tie, amongst other things. It was going to be thrown out, but I kept it. I was recently told during a conversation with someone I'd just met that if my badge was a green one (it was) it could possibly fetch £100 on ebay. Amazing! Apparently some early (!!) numbers have a value to collectors.Comment
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Not a good idea to accumulate a lot of paper products in confined spaces. They gather dust, are susceptible to damp and mould and give me an allergic reaction. County record office had a leak a while ago and the ancient documents (Written on Skin, of course) started reverting to sheep.
My keeper has a Blue Peter badge somewhere. Was reminded of this when I saw a young George Benjamin interviewed by John Noakes in the recent TV documentary. Suppose his must have been a gold one
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Clearly, it owns me. I live in a relatively small home buts oriented vertically and a couple of years ago my wife and I were seriously thinking about downsizing when we both were having health issues and the stairs were an issue and we tossed a great deal of non essentials, but we have both stabilized medically, have recommend to staying put and the stuff is starting to creep back.
My main concern if I suddenly had to move is my CD collection. I started moving them to a hard drive but that project has stalled for a variety of reasons, probably OT in this threadComment
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Not necessarily OT - though specific.Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
When I started this thread I wasn't only thinking of the stuff inside the house, but also the house and garden and the cars etc. OK - we need houses to live in if we want to be comfortable, and chairs to sit on, and tables to eat off, and beds to sleep in, but how many? I can only sit on one chair at a time, and sleep in one bed.
"Oh - but what happens if we have visitors?". OK - but how often is that? We're not running a hotel. "What happens if we want to have a few people round, and have a meeting?" OK - but we're not running a conference centre.
"We want the garden to look nice." Why? Do I really have to go out there and plant stuff every day, every week, and dig even during the winter, and mow the lawn? Why?
Things "need" fixing - Ok - well some really do, otherwise they'll go really bad, but other things .... [I just had a slate fixed on the roof - to avoid water problems later on.]
We're not running a stately home, nor creating a house which will be looked back on by other others in 100 or more years.
I don't believe in total minimalism - only having one knife, fork and spoon, and washing up by hand, but I do think that much of the paraphernalia of living may give us more "things to do" than we really want. Unless of course we like fixing things.
Some minimalism is "fake". I once went to visit someone in an office in Germany. His office was immaculate - a desk - with not much on it, and the whole room was very "clean", neat and tidy. Eventually though he slid back the panels on the wall - there were several, and there was all the stuff which many of us have on display because we haven't thought to have such clever wall designs.
An old saying is "tidy desk, tidy mind", but one of my friends modified this to "empty desk, empty mind".
I once had a neighbour who would fix his car every weekend, perhaps during the week too. If I went out to fix my car - when it really needed something doing - he'd be out of the house within seconds. After years of this he "confessed" that he really rather enjoyed it. I would never have guessed! Also, I think it gave him an excuse to get out of the house - though I never asked why.
Modern cars hardly ever need fixing, and if they do, the jobs are really too hard to tackle without modern tools which only garages have. The days of taking out spark plugs and adjusting contacts have gone. My neighbour was a bit unusual - I think he did have a hoist - but nowadays he'd need gas emissions testers, electronic gadgets - probably make and model specific. Perhaps people like him find other things to do, such as joining heritage railway societies as volunteers.Comment
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