"terry" wrote in message
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There must be obscene amounts of waste around here at the moment
(Hull -
Yorkshire) as people get flood damaged gear replaced and include
anything
and everything that they've grown tired of into the bargain.

Yes, that always seems to happen with insurance and compensation claims,
what's worse is that most other people think it's justified :-(

Mary

Hello Mary:

Don't know if it's my mid 1930s British birth or what! Maybe it's
genetic or inbred into a generation that went through WWII and postwar
rationing etc. But I feel right at home reading this thread, near St.
John's Newfoundland (Newfoundland rhymes with understand btw).

Yes our society, this one getting a little mor affluent in recent
years, now throws away stuff that we would have recycled by keeping
and reusing it no more than 30 years ago! We used to fix our shoes;
remember that?

We still do :-)


As consequence of gleaning and picking up (What was it Dickens called
them "Unconsidered trifles"?) we have a basement and yard full of
projects (i.e. junk) that's too good to throw away! Yesterday I built
a small lean-to for some auto items that my son wants kept, entirely
from used wood/lumber. (Well I did use a about a dozen new screws but
all the nails were used ones!). Only cost was the time involved; but
didn't have to leave the premises, go to lumber yard or anything. So
it was a productive afternoon.

I'm always amazed to think that you can BUY sheds!

And guess who everyone in this area comes to when they are trying to
repair something. As in; .... "You wouldn't happen to have
a ........... about this long and ....... ". Quite often do have it or
can suggest a good used cheap source.

Guess who it is here! Spouse is known as The Saviour of Chapeltown :-)

I have a neighbour whose SWMBO is a clean/tidy freak. He is always
complaining about stuff thrown out! He can't find a complete set of
spare brake parts (Worth around $150) for his transport truck for
example.

Standard greeting/question every time he comes looking for something
is; "Wife threw it out?".

And he stays married?

Nice to hear from you,

Mary