On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:17:13 -0800 (PST), Robert Macy
wrote:

On Jan 16, 5:53*pm, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:
My parents grew up in the shadow of the
Great Depression. They are not normal, nor
am I. By your definition.

I even write my usenet posts in recycled
plain text.

Christopher A. Young
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wrote in message

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A normal person would dispose of them and
spend a dollar to buy a new marker. *There-
fore, you are NOT normal.....

I think it's abnormal to want to throw everything away the minute
there's the slightest problem..

I do agree with that. Most electronics and electrical stuff I will try
to fix as well as other machinery and home items. But there is a limit.
A dead marker or dead ink pen is dead. Toss it. Unless a few drops of
water will make it last longer. But spending money on chemicals,
drilling holes in the marker, and generally wasting a lot of time for a
one dollar marker is just plain dumb. I know a guy who tried to refill
those Bic cigarette lighters. He filled a few of them, then almost blew
himself up when one was leaking and he flicked it.

I'd rather AVOID wasteful disposible stuff. I still have a refillable
metal lighter. Most of the time I use a double edged razor that I buy
blades for, rather than those one time disposible razors, etc.

But I've never seen a refillable marker. And while on that subject,
when I was a kid, they used to sell ink pen refills. I dont see them
anymore, but back then, in elementary school I saved all the pen parts
and used to do pen repair for my classmates. Some of the teachers were
not exactly pleased about it, because during boring subjects, I'd rather
be fixing pens, and had lots of springs and push buttons etc on my desk.

These days, my garage is filled with car parts, building materials, and
so on, so it's the same sort of thing, just bigger toys for bigger
boys!!!