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#145599 - 08/24/08 06:53 AM It-might-come-in-handy-someday club
dweste Offline
Pooh-Bah

Registered: 02/16/08
Posts: 2463
Loc: Central California
Packing and moving stuff out of what is now somebody else' house. Where did all this stuff come from?

Clothes I haven't worn in years, coffee mugs by the dozen received as gifts that I never use, articles in folders that were important for some now-lost reason, knicknacks that seemed interesting or cute but not enough to pack or move, ball caps from events by the dozen in a pile on a closet shelf, recepts and tax records more than a decade old carefully filed away, old computer software and diskettes that could only run on museum piece equipment if at all, cheap lamps and appliances that I could probably rewire someday except even fixed they are junk, good parts from otherwise broken stuff, etcetera.

Am I the only member of the it-might-come-in-handy-someday club?

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#145603 - 08/24/08 07:57 AM Re: It-might-come-in-handy-someday club [Re: dweste]
wildman800 Offline
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Registered: 11/09/06
Posts: 2846
Loc: La-USA
I think most of us here are pack rats to one degree or another.
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#145609 - 08/24/08 10:43 AM Re: It-might-come-in-handy-someday club [Re: wildman800]
Grouch Offline
Enthusiast

Registered: 07/02/08
Posts: 395
Loc: Ohio
Are you sure you weren't rummaging through my house? Houses, garages and attics all across the country are filled with the stuff that you speak of.

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#145618 - 08/24/08 12:53 PM Re: It-might-come-in-handy-someday club [Re: dweste]
OldBaldGuy Offline
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Registered: 09/30/01
Posts: 5695
Loc: Former AFB in CA, recouping fr...
I suspect that becoming a boat bum is gonna be just about like being trailer trash, you suddenly don't have as much storage space, so you will stop saving/buying stuff you don't actually need, and use, you just don't have the space for it. This has saved us a fortune, since we now just zip right on past antique shops and garage sales. You will find that very soon every available storage space will be filled up; to acquire something new, you have to decide what to get rid of...
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#145628 - 08/24/08 01:54 PM Re: It-might-come-in-handy-someday club [Re: OldBaldGuy]
epirider Offline
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Registered: 12/03/05
Posts: 232
Loc: Wyoming, USA
I say buy a bigger house with a shed or two on the property. No sence in giving up junk when you can take out a new morgage! laugh
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#145655 - 08/24/08 04:49 PM Re: It-might-come-in-handy-someday club [Re: wildman800]
samhain Offline
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Registered: 11/30/05
Posts: 598
Loc: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Originally Posted By: wildman800
I think most of us here are pack rats to one degree or another.


And being a pack-rat has paid off for many of us at one point or another.

I'm thinking of my box in the shop that I named after my father-in-law.

He has a stash of plastic widgets, hoses, wires, metal pieces (basically junk) that has proved invaluable in "southern engineering" some repair or project around the house.

I've dove into my junk box many a time to rig up shims, braces, whatever. My wife was not too thrilled when I fished the ancient cookie sheet out of the garbage, but it ended up making a humdinger of a wind screen / stand for my beer can stove

All things in moderation.

Looking at what you're hanging on to with an eye towards versatility. (The broken elephant lamp itself might not be useful, but the guts could be).

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#145666 - 08/24/08 06:35 PM Re: It-might-come-in-handy-someday club [Re: samhain]
nurit Offline
Member

Registered: 03/27/08
Posts: 191
Loc: NYC
Oh thanks, samhain.
On this quiet Sunday afternoon I was considering... thinking about... just maybe... going through the you-never-know boxes... and actually throwing some of that stuff out.
But your eloquent and articulate post has carried the day.
The stuff stays!
(For the moment).

Nurit

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#145669 - 08/24/08 06:41 PM Re: It-might-come-in-handy-someday club [Re: nurit]
BobS Offline
Old Hand

Registered: 02/08/08
Posts: 924
Loc: Toledo Ohio
He who dies with the most junk wins…
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#145681 - 08/24/08 07:37 PM Re: It-might-come-in-handy-someday club [Re: BobS]
JohnE Offline
Addict

Registered: 06/10/08
Posts: 601
Loc: Southern Cal
The only problem I've had with the "might come in handy one day" stuff is that the "one day" never seems to come...whereas the stuff just keeps growing.

At the rate I accumulate stuff for that one day, I'll need a couple hundred of those "one days" to use up the stuff.

Gotta go buy some more stuff...

John E
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#145705 - 08/24/08 10:18 PM Re: It-might-come-in-handy-someday club [Re: nurit]
samhain Offline
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Registered: 11/30/05
Posts: 598
Loc: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Originally Posted By: nurit
Oh thanks, samhain.
On this quiet Sunday afternoon I was considering... thinking about... just maybe... going through the you-never-know boxes... and actually throwing some of that stuff out.
But your eloquent and articulate post has carried the day.
The stuff stays!
(For the moment).

Nurit



I live to serve.

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samhain autumnwood

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