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I never throw anything away
Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc
can be used in other ways. Do you never throw out stuff especially if is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. -- Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden |
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That was easy. Waldo is sitting on it.
-- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. wrote in message ... I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg |
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On Nov 16, 7:09*pm, wrote:
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:54 -0500, Bill who putters wrote: Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. *Do you never throw out stuff especially if * is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. *Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. *Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg Please start the Harley so we can follow the sound. |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:54 -0500, Bill who putters wrote: Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. Do you never throw out stuff especially if is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg Under the boards and behind what looks like a carpet cleaner. Darn! I knew I'd find a use for those X-ray glasses some day. 8-) TDD |
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... On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:54 -0500, Bill who putters wrote: Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. Do you never throw out stuff especially if is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg FWIW, I think the lost bike is to the right of the grey coil of wire(?) and the left of the rectangular bucket with the blue label with the red line across it. I assume that because the reflective license plate (we have to turn ours in now under serious penalty) is overexposed as it would be in a flash photo at precisely the right angle. What is the vehicle with the red milk crate and orange wire in the back? We have a lot of the same junk, although my wife would fail you big time on the fluorescent lamps stored glass out. (-: And maybe that sky-hooked ladder depending on its moorings. I have a personal question. Feel free to ignore it. Are you both married, singled, widowed or what? I married late in life, and as part of that Faustian bargain (which has worked out pretty well so far) I agreed to a serious decluttering of my bachelor life style. Implementation, however, has proceeded at Federal contracting speed (as in not much progress for the last 4 years and then a sudden flurry of work as final deliverables come due). (-: However, a big move (our last, we've agreed) is on the horizon and has brought a sort of shocking realization. Nineteen Pentium 3 and 4 class machines will have to go, the collection of 3/4" furniture-grade plywood and scraps must go, 300' or so feet of double-slotted shelving standards and matching brackets must go (my junk is at least well organized!), stacks of old VCR, receivers, TV's, cassette decks, darkroom gear, CCTV gear, conduit, miles of smurf tube, spools of wire (250' 12-2 Romex NIB OS - marked $14.23 - guess what year I bought *that*), all must go. Oh, the humanity. Not moving looks pretty attractive compared to the ocean of junk that needs to be dealt with! Anyway, our big concern now is what are of the US (or maybe even outside the US) meets our needs and desires and isn't going to turn into a "tax the property owners to death" state because of the projected shortfalls in local government revenues. She wants to be near an area with good skiing within driving range (mostly because flying is now such a hassle) and I want to live in a climate like San Diego. So far, it's been a tough search. -- Bobby G. |
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On Nov 16, 7:53*pm, "Robert Green" wrote:
wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:54 -0500, Bill who putters wrote: Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. *Do you never throw out stuff especially if is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. *Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. *Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg FWIW, I think the lost bike is to the right of the grey coil of wire(?) and the left of the rectangular bucket with the blue label with the red line across it. *I assume that because the reflective license plate (we have to turn ours in now under serious penalty) is overexposed as it would be in a flash photo at precisely the right angle. *What is the vehicle with the red milk crate and orange wire in the back? *We have a lot of the same junk, although my wife would fail you big time on the fluorescent lamps stored glass out. (-: *And maybe that sky-hooked ladder depending on its moorings. I have a personal question. *Feel free to ignore it. *Are you both married, singled, widowed or what? *I married late in life, and as part of that Faustian bargain (which has worked out pretty well so far) I agreed to a serious decluttering of my bachelor life style. *Implementation, however, has proceeded at Federal contracting speed (as in not much progress for the last 4 years and then a sudden flurry of work as final deliverables come due). *(-: However, a big move (our last, we've agreed) is on the horizon and has brought a sort of shocking realization. *Nineteen Pentium 3 and 4 class machines will have to go, the collection of 3/4" furniture-grade plywood and scraps must go, 300' or so feet of double-slotted shelving standards and matching brackets must go (my junk is at least well organized!), stacks of old VCR, receivers, TV's, cassette decks, darkroom gear, CCTV gear, conduit, miles of smurf tube, spools of wire (250' 12-2 Romex NIB OS - marked $14.23 - guess what year I bought *that*), all must go. *Oh, the humanity. Not moving looks pretty attractive compared to the ocean of junk that needs to be dealt with! Anyway, our big concern now is what are of the US (or maybe even outside the US) meets our needs and desires and isn't going to turn into a "tax the property owners to death" state because of the projected shortfalls in local government revenues. *She wants to be near an area with good skiing within driving range (mostly because flying is now such a hassle) and I want to live in a climate like San Diego. *So far, it's been a tough search. -- Bobby G.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - They have a series of shows on TV these days called "HOARDERS". The guys and gals on tv make you guys seem like beginners. |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:54 -0500, Bill who putters wrote: Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. Do you never throw out stuff especially if is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg I see what might be a bike trailer under the flag. |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:54 -0500, Bill who putters
wrote: Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. Do you never throw out stuff especially if is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. I'm more likely to get rid oft something that is useful than that is not. I'll give away something that I can replace at a store, but lots of things I save I couldn't buy if I tried. Especially if there is a way to store them. I store long thin things together, flat things together, boxes within each other (although then I forget what is in the biggest box.) Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. Sort Or firewire. of makes recycling harder for sure. |
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wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:54 -0500, Bill who putters wrote: Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. Do you never throw out stuff especially if is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg The rule at my shop is that if I throw it out, I will need it within 72 hours. And it doesn't matter that it's been sitting there for ten years or not. And it happens every f time. Steve |
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... On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:53:37 -0500, "Robert Green" wrote: What is the vehicle with the red milk crate and orange wire in the back? Club Car golf cart Ah - at first I thought the Harley had a side car. I've got a proliferation of power wheelchairs and scooters I bought for about 10 cents on the dollar from Ebay. For a while, it was hard to get hold of good used power chairs because of the BattleBot craze. Anyone know if they still holding tournaments? -- Bobby G. |
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... On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:53:37 -0500, "Robert Green" wrote: I have a personal question. Feel free to ignore it. Are you both married, singled, widowed or what? I married late in life, and as part of that Faustian bargain (which has worked out pretty well so far) I agreed to a serious decluttering of my bachelor life style. Implementation, however, has proceeded at Federal contracting speed (as in not much progress for the last 4 years and then a sudden flurry of work as final deliverables come due). (-: Married but my wife keeps my junk contained in the garage, shed and my computer room. Ah, a combination of peaceful co-existence and containment. (-; Nineteen Pentium 3 and 4 class machines will have to go I have a room full of PC hardware too.. We have 8 or 9 around the house doing something and I have another dozen in various states of assembly. Just a room full? (-: I gradually replaced them with Fujitsu tablets from Ebay that had touch screens ten years before the Ipad showed up and that draw about 17W each (and even less on standby) compared to the 135W the desktops ate. The desktops were all hand-built, and each one was usually a slight improvement over the one it was replacing. The years that PIII's were evolving saw an incredible number of "must have" changes - USB 2.0, XGA, gigabyte hard disks, CD and DVD burners and more. It's not that way anymore. The only thing the old 400-600MHz PC's won't do well is record/process HD TV or play the latest video games (SFW!). Ironically software of the period has no problem playing MPG files and DVD's, but not versions that are just a few years newer. Now programmers are so used to having oodles of memory, CPU and diskspace that nothing's coded compactly or elegantly anymore. I just bought a Toshiba laptop with Win7 because a few sites we deal with demand more recent software than W2KPro, but I hate it. I would like to know how much productivity has been lost nationwide having people learn new ways of doing things that aren't really better, just different. I recall Steve Jobs saying that Apple's quicker boot time saved the world thousands of man years when you add up all the time people sit around waiting for their PC's to boot up. I mean why change "Find" to "Search" unless you're just out to confuse your customers? -- Bobby G. |
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On Nov 17, 2:25*am, "Steve B" wrote:
wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:54 -0500, Bill who putters wrote: Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. *Do you never throw out stuff especially if is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. *Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. *Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg The rule at my shop is that if I throw it out, I will need it within 72 hours. *And it doesn't matter that it's been sitting there for ten years or not. *And it happens every f time. Steve- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I once tossed a pile of machine covers, never needed them. put them in pile outside, had ice storm and snow so they didnt finish their trip to the garbage. a day later i needed one of those covers, ended up digging it out of the ice and sold it a quick 50 bucks plus a very long term customer |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:54 -0500, Bill who putters
wrote: Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. Do you never throw out stuff especially if is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. I still have stuff my grandfather couldn't throw away, why should I throw away my own stuff? |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:54 -0500, Bill who putters wrote: Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. Do you never throw out stuff especially if is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg Very nice garage. I like it. Look at all the stuff the garage protects. Put a car in ther and it only protects one thing, a car. Stupid! That garage is full of "equipment". Those who say it's full of **** are full of ****. I don't see any duct tape and will just assume it's out of camera. No demerit issued. |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:54 -0500, Bill who putters wrote: Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. *Do you never throw out stuff especially if * is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. *Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. *Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg Is that a picture of Jack Kennedy on the wall (the ladder is pointing at it)? Mike |
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On Nov 16, 11:02*pm, Bill who putters wrote:
*Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. *Do you never throw out stuff especially if * is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. *Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. *Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. -- Bill *S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden Us hoarders are members of a world wide cult. We know if we throw anything out, we'll need it the next day. We are a generous lot. If someone wants something from our hoards, they are welcome. All my neighbours have hoards. We all know what's in one another's hoards. Often we don't have to buy nuthin'! We never throw nuthin' out! "Recycling" is old hat to us. |
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: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:00:08 GMT, Red Green wrote: harry wrote in news:6f05695c-cd7c-4412-9738- : On Nov 16, 11:02*pm, Bill who putters wrote: *Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts et c can be used in other ways. *Do you never throw out stuff especially if * is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. *Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. *Sor t of makes recycling harder for sure. -- Bill *S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden Us hoarders are members of a world wide cult. We know if we throw anything out, we'll need it the next day. We are a generous lot. If someone wants something from our hoards, they are welcome. All my neighbours have hoards. We all know what's in one another's hoards. Often we don't have to buy nuthin'! We never throw nuthin' out! "Recycling" is old hat to us. Then there's that piece of lumber you saved because you KNEW you would need it some day...pull it out...and it's an inch short. Sounds like a "personal" problem! LOL Got me! LOL. Advertising I have short wood - not good :-( |
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Robert Green wrote:
wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:53:37 -0500, "Robert Green" wrote: I have a personal question. Feel free to ignore it. Are you both married, singled, widowed or what? I married late in life, and as part of that Faustian bargain (which has worked out pretty well so far) I agreed to a serious decluttering of my bachelor life style. Implementation, however, has proceeded at Federal contracting speed (as in not much progress for the last 4 years and then a sudden flurry of work as final deliverables come due). (-: Married but my wife keeps my junk contained in the garage, shed and my computer room. Ah, a combination of peaceful co-existence and containment. (-; Nineteen Pentium 3 and 4 class machines will have to go I have a room full of PC hardware too.. We have 8 or 9 around the house doing something and I have another dozen in various states of assembly. Just a room full? (-: I gradually replaced them with Fujitsu tablets from Ebay that had touch screens ten years before the Ipad showed up and that draw about 17W each (and even less on standby) compared to the 135W the desktops ate. The desktops were all hand-built, and each one was usually a slight improvement over the one it was replacing. The years that PIII's were evolving saw an incredible number of "must have" changes - USB 2.0, XGA, gigabyte hard disks, CD and DVD burners and more. It's not that way anymore. The only thing the old 400-600MHz PC's won't do well is record/process HD TV or play the latest video games (SFW!). Ironically software of the period has no problem playing MPG files and DVD's, but not versions that are just a few years newer. Now programmers are so used to having oodles of memory, CPU and diskspace that nothing's coded compactly or elegantly anymore. I just bought a Toshiba laptop with Win7 because a few sites we deal with demand more recent software than W2KPro, but I hate it. I would like to know how much productivity has been lost nationwide having people learn new ways of doing things that aren't really better, just different. I recall Steve Jobs saying that Apple's quicker boot time saved the world thousands of man years when you add up all the time people sit around waiting for their PC's to boot up. I mean why change "Find" to "Search" unless you're just out to confuse your customers? -- Bobby G. I pick up old computers at the 2nd hand store, get them going and give them away to someone that doesn't have one. A pretty good hobby and cheap. Some of the P4s I hate to let go but there's always another one sooner or later. Main problem lately is people are taking the hard drives out before donating them to the God place that has the 2nd hand store. That place is filling up with old CRT TVs as people switch over to HDTV. |
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Anyway, our big concern now is what are of the US (or maybe even outside the US) meets our needs and desires and isn't going to turn into a "tax the property owners to death" state because of the projected shortfalls in local government revenues. She wants to be near an area with good skiing within driving range (mostly because flying is now such a hassle) and I want to live in a climate like San Diego. So far, it's been a tough search. central az above the rim. mild winters, warm but not hot summers, driving to ski is 2-3 hours north, beach in mexico is 5 hours away south, san diego is 7 hours away west, and you're not in kalifornia. |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:09:43 -0500, wrote:
I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg Hey look y'all. A pathway over here. My pathway is in the shape of a "J". I can really git around in there.. For the poster that called "gray wire?" next to the scooter. That is a paint sprayer hose. Right beside the cycle, next to the wood that is too short. |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:04:08 -0800 (PST), "hr(bob) "
wrote: They have a series of shows on TV these days called "HOARDERS". The guys and gals on tv make you guys seem like beginners. Just recently in Las Vegas a woman went missing. After days of decay they found her body under a pile of hoarded stuff. The husband was the usual first suspect. He was cleared of any wrongdoing. |
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On 11/17/2010 9:01 AM, notbob wrote:
On 2010-11-17, wrote: Well there was a little fire heh heh.... with that king/queen seat on a perfectly fine dresser, the poor bike probably committed self-immolation. Make me an offer ;-) Naw. Jes curious. I retired my asphalt eating ass from two wheels, also. As my geezer ex-riding buddy so succinctly put it, "I don't bounce worth a damn, no more." nb Chortle. Gonna remember that for next time somebody asks my why I only take my 24' ladder out of the garage once a year any more. -- aem sends... |
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"Oren" wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:04:08 -0800 (PST), "hr(bob) " wrote: They have a series of shows on TV these days called "HOARDERS". The guys and gals on tv make you guys seem like beginners. Just recently in Las Vegas a woman went missing. After days of decay they found her body under a pile of hoarded stuff. The husband was the usual first suspect. He was cleared of any wrongdoing. Somebody find the cite for those two brothers in New York City, I believe. They had a whole building. They made booby traps, and one got caught in one of his own under tons of newspapers. They found him a few years later. They had even brought in a Ford Model T frame and partial car. Happened probably in the thirties or forties, and they found out about the missing brother when the surviving one got sick. |
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"Steve B" wrote in message
news "Oren" wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:04:08 -0800 (PST), "hr(bob) " wrote: They have a series of shows on TV these days called "HOARDERS". The guys and gals on tv make you guys seem like beginners. Just recently in Las Vegas a woman went missing. After days of decay they found her body under a pile of hoarded stuff. The husband was the usual first suspect. He was cleared of any wrongdoing. Somebody find the cite for those two brothers in New York City, I believe. They had a whole building. They made booby traps, and one got caught in one of his own under tons of newspapers. They found him a few years later. They had even brought in a Ford Model T frame and partial car. Happened probably in the thirties or forties, and they found out about the missing brother when the surviving one got sick. Collyer Brothers, the patron saints of hoarders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers Homer Lusk Collyer (November 6, 1881 - March 21, 1947) and Langley Collyer (October 3, 1885 - March 1947) were two American brothers who became famous because of their snobbish nature, filth in their home, and compulsive hoarding. For decades, neighborhood rumors swirled around the rarely seen, unemployed men and their home at 2078 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of 128th Street), in Manhattan, where they obsessively collected newspapers, books, furniture, musical instruments, and many other items, with booby traps set up in corridors and doorways to protect against intruders. Both were eventually found dead in the Harlem brownstone where they had lived as hermits, surrounded by over 130 tons of waste that they had amassed over several decades.[1] -- Bobby G. |
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On Nov 16, 11:02*pm, Bill who putters wrote:
*Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. *Do you never throw out stuff especially if * is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. *Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. *Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. -- Bill *S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden Heh Heh. You American don't know anything about hoarders. This hoard was seized by the government to pay taxes. Worth millions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlumpf_Collection Now I only got junk! :-) Have alook through this one. Of particular interest to Americans judging by the interest shown here previously. |
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4ax.com: On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:09:43 -0500, wrote: I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg Hey look y'all. A pathway over here. My pathway is in the shape of a "J". I can really git around in there.. For the poster that called "gray wire?" next to the scooter. That is a paint sprayer hose. Right beside the cycle, next to the wood that is too short. I think gfretwell's pic is gonna become the Mona Lisa of a.h.r. |
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wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:55:14 -0800, Oren wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:09:43 -0500, wrote: I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg Hey look y'all. A pathway over here. My pathway is in the shape of a "J". I can really git around in there.. For the poster that called "gray wire?" next to the scooter. That is a paint sprayer hose. Right beside the cycle, next to the wood that is too short. Nope small electric pressure cleaner. Many years ago I read that the biggest unsolved problem to machine vision was developing the ability to identify objects that were 95% obscured by other objects. We can go out to the shop and look at a table with 350 things piled on it, and pick up something from under 12 other things. Sometimes based on a visible sliver, and sometimes based on nothing more than the degree to which it tilts whatever is on top of it. |
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news In article , wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:55:14 -0800, Oren wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:09:43 -0500, wrote: I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg Hey look y'all. A pathway over here. My pathway is in the shape of a "J". I can really git around in there.. For the poster that called "gray wire?" next to the scooter. That is a paint sprayer hose. Right beside the cycle, next to the wood that is too short. Nope small electric pressure cleaner. Many years ago I read that the biggest unsolved problem to machine vision was developing the ability to identify objects that were 95% obscured by other objects. We can go out to the shop and look at a table with 350 things piled on it, and pick up something from under 12 other things. Sometimes based on a visible sliver, and sometimes based on nothing more than the degree to which it tilts whatever is on top of it. And if the item is not exactly as we last remember it (colors, shape, finish) we overlook it right in front of us 87 times. Well OK, maybe not "we". Just "I" :-( |
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:55:14 -0800, Oren wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:09:43 -0500, wrote: I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg Hey look y'all. A pathway over here. My pathway is in the shape of a "J". I can really git around in there.. For the poster that called "gray wire?" next to the scooter. That is a paint sprayer hose. Right beside the cycle, next to the wood that is too short. Nope small electric pressure cleaner. Got that one right! |
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:43:10 GMT, Red Green
wrote: Oren wrote in news:gtf8e69t90it2hbf4n46mj86k3ip63tire@ 4ax.com: On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:09:43 -0500, wrote: I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg Hey look y'all. A pathway over here. My pathway is in the shape of a "J". I can really git around in there.. For the poster that called "gray wire?" next to the scooter. That is a paint sprayer hose. Right beside the cycle, next to the wood that is too short. I think gfretwell's pic is gonna become the Mona Lisa of a.h.r. Maybe he will add pics of the two sheds. That ought to be a hoot. |
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news On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:43:10 GMT, Red Green wrote: Oren wrote in news:gtf8e69t90it2hbf4n46mj86k3ip63tire@ 4ax.com: On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:09:43 -0500, wrote: I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg Hey look y'all. A pathway over here. My pathway is in the shape of a "J". I can really git around in there.. For the poster that called "gray wire?" next to the scooter. That is a paint sprayer hose. Right beside the cycle, next to the wood that is too short. I think gfretwell's pic is gonna become the Mona Lisa of a.h.r. Maybe he will add pics of the two sheds. That ought to be a hoot. The jealousy will kill me. But some day he too will fall from glory...as all competitive heros do sigh. |
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... On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:04:08 -0800 (PST), "hr(bob) " wrote: They have a series of shows on TV these days called "HOARDERS". The guys and gals on tv make you guys seem like beginners. Just recently in Las Vegas a woman went missing. After days of decay they found her body under a pile of hoarded stuff. The husband was the usual first suspect. He was cleared of any wrongdoing. That was very similar to the case of Homer and Langley Collyer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers Langley was suspected in the death of his brother and was the subject of a huge manhunt after his brother's body was discovered when neighbors complained about an unpleasant odor. It turned out he had died a few weeks before, killed by a booby trap of newspapers he had made to keep thieves out. His blind and invalid brother Homer also died soon after Langley, who had been caring for him. The newspapers of the time kept running articles about the supposed treasure trove the brothers had in their mansion which inspired near nightly raids on their house. Hence the booby traps, which like so many other such traps, ending up trapping its maker and not the criminals it was intended for. Hoarding is an affliction that seems to bother observers a lot more than it does the hoarder. In many cases, when there is an "intervention" the hoarder either quickly restocks the hoard or dies very soon after from the incredible stress of watching stuff (mostly junk) that they've come to treasure, being dumped in the trash. Just imagine how you would feel if someone came in and threw out most of your belongings? In the case of hoarders, they attach great value to things you and I would consider junk. So, to them, it's as if someone came in and junked their big screen TV, their tools, their clothes, etc. It's thought to be an obsessive-compulsive disorder, but its causes, treatment and cure are still quite elusive. I save stuff because once I have something, and know where it is, it becomes part of my brain. Throwing it out seems to be like deliberately forgetting something. Many of the hoarders I've seen are quite intelligent and well aware of their "problem" and show very little interest in changing their ways. There's a hierarchy of hoarding listed he http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding I am not quite sure where I stratify, but I think it's level II (or maybe III). -- Bobby G. |
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message stuff snipped I pick up old computers at the 2nd hand store, get them going and give them away to someone that doesn't have one. A pretty good hobby and cheap. Some of the P4s I hate to let go but there's always another one sooner or later. Main problem lately is people are taking the hard drives out before donating them to the God place that has the 2nd hand store. That place is filling up with old CRT TVs as people switch over to HDTV. I used to give away the old machines, but it turned out to be a bad idea. I became the technical support for such machines, and a common complaint was "They won't play insert popular game of the month here" I would tell the parents that's a GOOD thing, because kids will be using the machines for schoolwork and not game playing. Didn't matter. I finally gave up after one person kept installing animated cursors and boatloads of some of the seediest looking PD shareware garbage that slowed an already slow (200MHz PII) down pretty seriously. It was still absolutely fine for schoolwork, running Quicken, making Powerpoint presentations, etc. I ran for years doing programming and WP - had an AST TurboLaser board and laser that went with it (that's about the time HP won the laser printer wars). I told them that at the time, the machine and laser printer were still worth at least $700 and they were over $6000 new. Something just slightly faster from Circuit City would cost at least $1000 and wouldn't come with a laser printer or any service other than "you need to reformat and reload." One day, when I realized I hadn't heard from them in a while, I called only to find out that they had "junked it" and as far as I could tell, they were still having the same old problems with their new Circuit City computer, multiplied by 10 because now they were on the Internet and corresponding with Nigerian Princes with slight banking problems. (-: And that's why there are 19 PC's stacked in the basement. Less trouble for me to hang on to and possibly be able to restore an Email from 15 years ago if I ever needed to. I stopped doing almost all my tech support efforts after that, figuring that the old saw was right "no deed goes unpunished." I am kind of looking forward to seeing which ones will start up after a 5-15 years nap. I'm betting it won't be many. My laptop collection has not fared well without exercise. The New Year's resolution that I would exercise them lasted about as long as they all do. Some beep, some don't and some have their CMOS backup batteries located in impossible to service places -- Bobby G. |
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:27:09 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote: "FatterDumber& Happier Moe" wrote in message stuff snipped I pick up old computers at the 2nd hand store, get them going and give them away to someone that doesn't have one. A pretty good hobby and cheap. Some of the P4s I hate to let go but there's always another one sooner or later. Main problem lately is people are taking the hard drives out before donating them to the God place that has the 2nd hand store. That place is filling up with old CRT TVs as people switch over to HDTV. I used to give away the old machines, but it turned out to be a bad idea. I became the technical support for such machines, and a common complaint was "They won't play insert popular game of the month here" I would tell the parents that's a GOOD thing, because kids will be using the machines for schoolwork and not game playing. Didn't matter. I finally gave up after one person kept installing animated cursors and boatloads of some of the seediest looking PD shareware garbage that slowed an already slow (200MHz PII) down pretty seriously. It was still absolutely fine for schoolwork, running Quicken, making Powerpoint presentations, etc. I ran for years doing programming and WP - had an AST TurboLaser board and laser that went with it (that's about the time HP won the laser printer wars). I told them that at the time, the machine and laser printer were still worth at least $700 and they were over $6000 new. Something just slightly faster from Circuit City would cost at least $1000 and wouldn't come with a laser printer or any service other than "you need to reformat and reload." One day, when I realized I hadn't heard from them in a while, I called only to find out that they had "junked it" and as far as I could tell, they were still having the same old problems with their new Circuit City computer, multiplied by 10 because now they were on the Internet and corresponding with Nigerian Princes with slight banking problems. (-: And that's why there are 19 PC's stacked in the basement. Less trouble for me to hang on to and possibly be able to restore an Email from 15 years ago if I ever needed to. I stopped doing almost all my tech support efforts after that, figuring that the old saw was right "no deed goes unpunished." I am kind of looking forward to seeing which ones will start up after a 5-15 years nap. I'm betting it won't be many. My laptop collection has not fared well without exercise. The New Year's resolution that I would exercise them lasted about as long as they all do. Some beep, some don't and some have their CMOS backup batteries located in impossible to service places I also have a wall of beige in the basement. Luckily it really doesn't take up much room since it's only 6" thick or so. I could probably just pull all the drives, copy all the data onto a tiny sliver of a spare 1tb drive, and get rid of them all. But they do no harm sitting there. One is a 450 that I overclocked to 500. One is a 120. Somehow I doubt I'll ever need them again. |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:54 -0500, Bill who putters wrote:
Some times it looks like my garage is cluttered but those old bolts etc can be used in other ways. Do you never throw out stuff especially if is has possible multiple use options? Guess it could be called part saving. Funny I save no electronic stuff with the exception of various cables but find the connectors keep changing like UBS or firewall. Sort of makes recycling harder for sure. Yeah, I keep pretty much everything. I've got my scrap wood piles, my scrap metal piles, my scrap electronics pile etc. - I manage to keep it pretty well sorted (with different piles for different size things, too), and am lucky in that I've got a few sheds and big storage areas. It's surprising how often I dig into them to fix something that's broken. The frustrating thing is that I moved overseas a few years back, and still have similar piles in (free, thankfully) storage abroad - I keep putting off the day when I suspect I'm simply going to have to dump them. Plus it's really annoying when I know that I have something that I could use to fix something else, but it's 4000 miles away (the electronics are the worst for that - I'm not in a high-tech area here, but I've got boxes and boxes of scrap/salvaged components in overseas storage) cheers Jules |
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: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:39:11 -0800, Oren wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:43:10 GMT, Red Green wrote: Oren wrote in news:gtf8e69t90it2hbf4n46mj86k3ip63tire@ 4ax.com: On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:09:43 -0500, wrote: I have a problem throwing stuff away too. I have 2 sheds and a room in the house that look like this too. Your mission, find the Harley in this picture (1970 FLH) http://gfretwell.com/ftp/garage.jpg Hey look y'all. A pathway over here. My pathway is in the shape of a "J". I can really git around in there.. For the poster that called "gray wire?" next to the scooter. That is a paint sprayer hose. Right beside the cycle, next to the wood that is too short. I think gfretwell's pic is gonna become the Mona Lisa of a.h.r. Maybe he will add pics of the two sheds. That ought to be a hoot. This is the shed(s) actually 2 back to back. The bricks are pavers dumpsterdived from my wife's construction dumpsters and the back shed is block and steel scavenged from the same place. I will open the doors and shoot pictures if you want. on the side is a bunch of roof tile and more pavers The steel doors and glass block in the back shed were scavenged too. http://gfretwell.com/electrical/bric...ed%20house.jpg I see you learned well from the 3 little pigs. Brick. How did you get in on the DIY show unlimited landscape budget? (really is a decent shed) |
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