On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:43:16 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Bruce wrote:
wrote:

Just paid £12 for a spot blaster (Aldi). Sod is I bought one last
year and forgot it.
Enough is enough. I've reached diy Nirvana, I'm finally tooled up, I'm
sorted!.
6 years lunatic tool-gadget-kit buying from Lidl-Netto-Aldi has left
me as a befuddled tool freak wreck. All that's left now is my weekly
fix of their "On sale from ..." emails. A vain, desperate hope that
the Chinese have invented some strange new novelty item, (preferably
powered) that will be mine, all mine. Yeah. I do tools. I can handle
it ...


I'm at the point where I have about 50% more tools than there is
available room for them. Renting a garage provided some respite but
only at a cost.

I find the discipline of a Kangoo van very useful. I still carry far
too many tools on the basis of 'it might come in handy'.

I never get the opportunity to use most of them. So I am now weeding
out my earlier, mainly Lidl purchases, and offering them on Freecycle.

I've been planning a clearout for ages. I had to upgrade a lot of stuff
when I started doing DIY jobs for a living, but the old stuff is still
in working order. Freecycle sounds a good idea.

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If you don't want to be bothered with Ebay personally consider using an
Ebay middleman to sell your unwanted items. These are people who will
collect your unwanted items, sell them on Ebay and then send you the
proceeds less their (substantial) charges. It's better than giving your
goods away to ungrateful beggars for nothing.

A quick Google for 'Ebay sellers' produced this example amongst several:

http://www.trading4u.com/?gclid=CMvw...FQulQwodGWko6g

Ci.

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