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The wisdom of life
NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY because IT MIGHT COME IN and HELP AVOID SOCIAL HUMILIATION Just suppose your relatives turn up out of the blue and with very little preliminary small talk ask if you have any chain. Imagine the embarrassment if you are clean out of chain. But the wise man will have been carefully saving and cataloguing every piece of chain that has come his way for the last fifty years. Disregarding the twenty-three samples of chain he has that aren't suitable on grounds of size, weight, and design, he will be able to find various appropriate chains immediately and offer his relations a choice of at least five types. This sort of prudence is what made Britain great. REMEMBER! NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY! IT MIGHT COME IN! Bill |
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On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 18:01:47 UTC, Bill Wright wrote:
The wisdom of life NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY because IT MIGHT COME IN and HELP AVOID SOCIAL HUMILIATION Just suppose your relatives turn up out of the blue and with very little preliminary small talk ask if you have any chain. Imagine the embarrassment if you are clean out of chain. But the wise man will have been carefully saving and cataloguing every piece of chain that has come his way for the last fifty years. Disregarding the twenty-three samples of chain he has that aren't suitable on grounds of size, weight, and design, he will be able to find various appropriate chains immediately and offer his relations a choice of at least five types. This sort of prudence is what made Britain great. REMEMBER! NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY! IT MIGHT COME IN! Bill Us hoarders just love it when we can "save" somebody by providing some otherwise unobtainable bit. |
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Bill Wright wrote: The wisdom of life NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY because IT MIGHT COME IN and HELP AVOID SOCIAL HUMILIATION Just suppose your relatives turn up out of the blue and with very little preliminary small talk ask if you have any chain. Imagine the embarrassment if you are clean out of chain. But the wise man will have been carefully saving and cataloguing every piece of chain that has come his way for the last fifty years. Disregarding the twenty-three samples of chain he has that aren't suitable on grounds of size, weight, and design, he will be able to find various appropriate chains immediately and offer his relations a choice of at least five types. This sort of prudence is what made Britain great. REMEMBER! NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY! IT MIGHT COME IN! and the box of string carefully labelled "String - too short to be any use." -- from KT24 in Surrey, England "I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle |
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On 30/01/2019 18:01, Bill Wright wrote:
The wisdom of life NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY because IT MIGHT COME IN and HELP AVOID SOCIAL HUMILIATION Just suppose your relatives turn up out of the blue and with very little preliminary small talk ask if you have any chain. Imagine the embarrassment if you are clean out of chain. But the wise man will have been carefully saving and cataloguing every piece of chain that has come his wayÂ* for the last fifty years.Â* Disregarding the twenty-three samples of chain he has that aren't suitable on grounds of size, weight, and design, he will be able to find various appropriate chains immediately and offer his relations a choice of at least five types. This sort of prudence is what made Britain great. REMEMBER! NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY! IT MIGHT COME IN! Bill I thought I was being a lot better in the past few years by throwing out anything I hadn't used for 5 years and furthermore not keeping things in the first place to clutter up the house. Over the new year period I helped friends move house. The bulk of the physical moving from one house to another was undertaken by 3 men in 2 vans but everything had to be packed first. In addition a lot of stuff was moved by car in bags and boxes. They were hoarders. At the end of the move, to a smaller house, they had managed to hire a 20ft container at a storage facility and fill it as well as filling the new house to an extent that were only narrow walk ways left. Their intention now is to start selling, gifting or junking all their unnecessary possessions, especially as the storage facility is nearly £1.4K a year. They are not considering moving again in the foreseeable future so the storage is effectively just being used to store "junk". This exercise got me to thinking about how much crap I've still got after 30+ years in my current house and I will probably want to move to a smaller property within a couple of years. In the past 3 weeks I've managed 4 full car loads to the local tip as well as putting out 4 to 6 extra general purpose rubbish bags for the bin men each week. 2 car loads were from the garden sheds where items had been dumped and forgotten about. It's amazing how much crap you can store in a small space let alone in the whole of your house! -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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On 30/01/2019 19:46, Jim K.. wrote:
How much is it to buy a 20ft container? But where to put it? Bill |
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On 30/01/2019 18:01, Bill Wright wrote: The wisdom of life NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY because IT MIGHT COME IN and HELP AVOID SOCIAL HUMILIATION Just suppose your relatives turn up out of the blue and with very little preliminary small talk ask if you have any chain. Imagine the embarrassment if you are clean out of chain. But the wise man will have been carefully saving and cataloguing every piece of chain that has come his way for the last fifty years. Disregarding the twenty-three samples of chain he has that aren't suitable on grounds of size, weight, and design, he will be able to find various appropriate chains immediately and offer his relations a choice of at least five types. This sort of prudence is what made Britain great. REMEMBER! NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY! IT MIGHT COME IN! Bill I thought I was being a lot better in the past few years by throwing out anything I hadn't used for 5 years and furthermore not keeping things in the first place to clutter up the house. Over the new year period I helped friends move house. The bulk of the physical moving from one house to another was undertaken by 3 men in 2 vans but everything had to be packed first. In addition a lot of stuff was moved by car in bags and boxes. They were hoarders. At the end of the move, to a smaller house, they had managed to hire a 20ft container at a storage facility and fill it as well as filling the new house to an extent that were only narrow walk ways left. Their intention now is to start selling, gifting or junking all their unnecessary possessions, especially as the storage facility is nearly £1.4K a year. They are not considering moving again in the foreseeable future so the storage is effectively just being used to store "junk". This exercise got me to thinking about how much crap I've still got after 30+ years in my current house and I will probably want to move to a smaller property within a couple of years. In the past 3 weeks I've managed 4 full car loads to the local tip as well as putting out 4 to 6 extra general purpose rubbish bags for the bin men each week. 2 car loads were from the garden sheds where items had been dumped and forgotten about. It's amazing how much crap you can store in a small space let alone in the whole of your house! How much is it to buy a 20ft container? -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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Bill Wright Wrote in message:
On 30/01/2019 19:46, Jim K.. wrote: How much is it to buy a 20ft container? But where to put it? Bill Outside usually... -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On 30/01/2019 20:30, Jim K.. wrote:
Bill Wright Wrote in message: On 30/01/2019 19:46, Jim K.. wrote: How much is it to buy a 20ft container? But where to put it? Bill Outside usually... But not necessarily on your own property. I should have added not only is the container full but two sheds in the new property are also full -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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On 30/01/2019 19:46, Jim K.. wrote:
How much is it to buy a 20ft container? £600 to £800 at the bottom end of the market, £1500+ for something that can be guaranteed to be watertight for a good number of years. Add to this the cost of transportation and possibly rent for somewhere acceptable to keep it. -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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In message , Bill Wright
writes Just suppose your relatives turn up out of the blue and with very little preliminary small talk ask if you have any chain. Imagine the embarrassment if you are clean out of chain. But the wise man will have been carefully saving and cataloguing every piece of chain that has come his way for the last fifty years. That's where I've been going wrong. I have a large selection of heavy mooring chain, many decent ropes and even bags of the too short or too iffy carefully coiled and taped rope that might come in useful one day. But it is not catalogued. I am a failure. -- Bill --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 18:01:47 UTC, Bill Wright wrote:
The wisdom of life NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY because IT MIGHT COME IN and HELP AVOID SOCIAL HUMILIATION Just suppose your relatives turn up out of the blue and with very little preliminary small talk ask if you have any chain. Imagine the embarrassment if you are clean out of chain. But the wise man will have been carefully saving and cataloguing every piece of chain that has come his way for the last fifty years. Disregarding the twenty-three samples of chain he has that aren't suitable on grounds of size, weight, and design, he will be able to find various appropriate chains immediately and offer his relations a choice of at least five types. This sort of prudence is what made Britain great. REMEMBER! NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY! IT MIGHT COME IN! Bill Hoarders don't normally know where things are, and thus can't produce them when needed/wanted. NT |
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![]() wrote in message ... On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 18:01:47 UTC, Bill Wright wrote: The wisdom of life NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY because IT MIGHT COME IN and HELP AVOID SOCIAL HUMILIATION Just suppose your relatives turn up out of the blue and with very little preliminary small talk ask if you have any chain. Imagine the embarrassment if you are clean out of chain. But the wise man will have been carefully saving and cataloguing every piece of chain that has come his way for the last fifty years. Disregarding the twenty-three samples of chain he has that aren't suitable on grounds of size, weight, and design, he will be able to find various appropriate chains immediately and offer his relations a choice of at least five types. This sort of prudence is what made Britain great. REMEMBER! NEVER THROW ANYTHING AWAY! IT MIGHT COME IN! Hoarders don't normally know where things are, and thus can't produce them when needed/wanted. I normally do. Tho a bigger hoarder mate of mine has managed to lose an entire beer brewing barrel and the other associated stuff like the mixing spoon and hydrometer. He has a lot more hoarded than I have tho, massive great shed and another 40' shipping container too. |
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On 30/01/2019 20:30, Jim K.. wrote:
Bill Wright Wrote in message: On 30/01/2019 19:46, Jim K.. wrote: How much is it to buy a 20ft container? But where to put it? Bill Outside usually... Yes, for those with small rooms, I suppose. Bill |
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![]() "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 19:53:31 UTC, Bill Wright wrote: On 30/01/2019 19:46, Jim K.. wrote: How much is it to buy a 20ft container? But where to put it? Bill Inside the 25ft container you brought last week. There are no 25ft containers and 20ft containers dont fit inside 40ft containers, stupid. |
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Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 19:53:31 UTC, Bill Wright wrote: On 30/01/2019 19:46, Jim K.. wrote: How much is it to buy a 20ft container? But where to put it? Bill Inside the 25ft container you brought last week. There are no 25ft containers Foreign idiot https://www.shippingcontainersuk.com...econd-hand.php GH |
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On 02/02/2019 16:01, Marland wrote:
Foreign idiot https://www.shippingcontainersuk.com...econd-hand.php That's a cut down 40 foot with some extra fabrication. Possibly as its now a non-standard size the fixings for shipping and stacking it are also non-standard so delivery to your premises may be more expensive. The manufacturers indicate its not suitable for shipping, stacking or lifting when unless when empty. -- mailto : news {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk |
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![]() "Marland" wrote in message ... Rod Speed wrote: "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 19:53:31 UTC, Bill Wright wrote: On 30/01/2019 19:46, Jim K.. wrote: How much is it to buy a 20ft container? But where to put it? Bill Inside the 25ft container you brought last week. There are no 25ft containers https://www.shippingcontainersuk.com...econd-hand.php "All containers come as standard at 20ft or 40ft in length, 8ft wide and 8ft6 high." |
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alan_m wrote:
On 02/02/2019 16:01, Marland wrote: Foreign idiot https://www.shippingcontainersuk.com...econd-hand.php That's a cut down 40 foot with some extra fabrication. Possibly as its now a non-standard size the fixings for shipping and stacking it are also non-standard so delivery to your premises may be more expensive. The manufacturers indicate its not suitable for shipping, stacking or lifting when unless when empty. Which as our Aussie troll did not mention he wanted it for shipping and was replying to a post about using one for storage means it exists for that purpose, so his statement €œTheir are no 25ft containers €œ is wrong. GH |
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On Monday, 4 February 2019 00:18:05 UTC, Marland wrote:
alan_m wrote: On 02/02/2019 16:01, Marland wrote: Foreign idiot https://www.shippingcontainersuk.com...econd-hand.php That's a cut down 40 foot with some extra fabrication. Possibly as its now a non-standard size the fixings for shipping and stacking it are also non-standard so delivery to your premises may be more expensive. The manufacturers indicate its not suitable for shipping, stacking or lifting when unless when empty. Which as our Aussie troll did not mention he wanted it for shipping and was replying to a post about using one for storage means it exists for that purpose, so his statement €œTheir are no 25ft containers €œ is wrong. GH All his statements are wrong to 99% accuracy. We all know this, except him. NT |
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