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I spent a good part of the weekend sorting through mounds of junk that had accumulated in my parents loft. There's little room to move because there is so much of it up there - enough to fill a reasonable sized room, in fact enough to fill two rooms. Quite a bit of it is old toys, but there's loads of useless carp (e.g. old kitchenware).
Is this normal? If it were my choice a lot of it would go straight to car boot/charity/tip - though obviously not the sentimental stuff. Old TVs, stereos etc just don't need to be kept, do they?
Is this normal? If it were my choice a lot of it would go straight to car boot/charity/tip - though obviously not the sentimental stuff. Old TVs, stereos etc just don't need to be kept, do they?
Pulsatingstar said:
I could do with an old TV. Mines broken, but I dont watch it enough to actually make go and buy one at the moment
Ahh, too late! My girlfriend bagged that one. I do have a Gateway P2-400 with 17" CRT taking up space though, and a decent Toshiba VCR that I'm told very occasionally jams...
paolow said:
if no one else has beaten me to it, im desperate for a new machine julian 
hows your application going btw? ive got my final medical on march 3rd. fingers crossed!
You're welcome to it. I'm getting thouroughly peed off with the medical profession whilst trying to get my form signed. I've been told I'm looking at April/May for a medical and autumn/winter for a start date!
JULIANHJ said:
if no one else has beaten me to it, im desperate for a new machine julian
hows your application going btw? ive got my final medical on march 3rd. fingers crossed!
You're welcome to it. I'm getting thouroughly peed off with the medical profession whilst trying to get my form signed. I've been told I'm looking at April/May for a medical and autumn/winter for a start date!
thanks!
yeah - i know how you feel, its frustrating atm because i cant take a 'real' job as it would be unfair, yet temping is pretty dull
god alone knows why they take over a year for each application, i suppose it tests the resolve of the applicants but its pretty unfair on us.
ill send you a pm tomorrow and find out where you are to arrange a pickup if thats ok, maybe go for a beer while im down? my shout?
Post war siege mentality is what I call it. Never throw anything away! you might need it.
However, ive discovered im a victim of this terrible syndrome. Ive got a pair of old climbing trousers that are ripped and patched and ripped again, and really no good for anything, but I cant bring myself to throw them away because the material is really tough (though not as tough as granite, hence the rips), and i might use it for something!
However, ive discovered im a victim of this terrible syndrome. Ive got a pair of old climbing trousers that are ripped and patched and ripped again, and really no good for anything, but I cant bring myself to throw them away because the material is really tough (though not as tough as granite, hence the rips), and i might use it for something!
Sounds like our loft. And our shed. And it's my Dad's fault.
Basically, anything that 'may be useful' goes in the shed (there's even cupboards in the shed with labels on the doord that say 'odds and ends', 'bits and bobs' and 'miscellaneous tools and things which may become useful one day'
), and anything with 'sentimental value' goes in the loft.
Funny thing is, my Dad once decided that he was going to sort out the loft once and for all, and over the course of a couple of weeks, took all the junk out, fitted a new floor and wall insulation, carpeted it, painted it, fitted new electrics and lighting...
...then put all the junk back in it.
Amongst all the crap, though, is his model train set he had as a kid back in the '50s, all in its original boxes, which is apparently worth an absolute mint. Won't sell it, of course. And there's loads of it, which means even more boxes spread even further throughout the room.
Basically, anything that 'may be useful' goes in the shed (there's even cupboards in the shed with labels on the doord that say 'odds and ends', 'bits and bobs' and 'miscellaneous tools and things which may become useful one day'
), and anything with 'sentimental value' goes in the loft. Funny thing is, my Dad once decided that he was going to sort out the loft once and for all, and over the course of a couple of weeks, took all the junk out, fitted a new floor and wall insulation, carpeted it, painted it, fitted new electrics and lighting...
...then put all the junk back in it.
Amongst all the crap, though, is his model train set he had as a kid back in the '50s, all in its original boxes, which is apparently worth an absolute mint. Won't sell it, of course. And there's loads of it, which means even more boxes spread even further throughout the room.
How about this? (Cheap plug!)
www.pistonheads.com/sales/detail.asp?i=35219
Remarkable value really...
www.pistonheads.com/sales/detail.asp?i=35219
Remarkable value really...
Mum's hobby is antiques, apart from she keeps the best bits for her. Hence house filled with junk. Dad's a book man and that accounts for everything else. They have a garage/carport (which I have filled with car bits) 7 sheds and a "Chalet" workshop which are all filled with bits of wood/useless crap.
I reckon it's an old parents thing. The way I'm going I'm probably going to have half a house full of books in the next decade though. Allready got a big roomful!
I reckon it's an old parents thing. The way I'm going I'm probably going to have half a house full of books in the next decade though. Allready got a big roomful!
I've got this nasty feeling that in the future I'm going to, alongside my daily hack and sports car on the drive, have some old roal-illegal hot hatch rotting in the garage that I intended to 'do up' as a track day rally-racer, but got halfway through and gave up trying through lack of time.
Both my grandparents died last month...and I did the thankless task of clearing their house.
When you're dead...someone will just come along and fill up loads of black bags and take them to the dump.....some stuff will be put aside to auction on Ebay.....perhaps a few mementoes will be taken....but the rest will be sold.
Do your next of kin a favour....get rid of the crap!!!
When you're dead...someone will just come along and fill up loads of black bags and take them to the dump.....some stuff will be put aside to auction on Ebay.....perhaps a few mementoes will be taken....but the rest will be sold.
Do your next of kin a favour....get rid of the crap!!!
condor said:
Both my grandparents died last month...and I did the thankless task of clearing their house.
When you're dead...someone will just come along and fill up loads of black bags and take them to the dump.....some stuff will be put aside to auction on Ebay.....perhaps a few mementoes will be taken....but the rest will be sold.
Do your next of kin a favour....get rid of the crap!!!
As I was sorting through I was having morbid thoughts along the same lines. How do you deal with it? What happens to people's clothes, possessions etc? Is most of it binned/given away? I was thinking about how much of it means something to my parents but little to me...
sadako said:
I have the feeling my future holds a half rebuilt metro turbo engine in my garage.
That's the sort of thing I mean - I'd buy a Metro Turbo for £500 with the intention of turning it into a track-day special with hints of 6R4, strip the interior out, then intend to fit a roll cage, widen the suspension camber, appropriately add aerodynamics to compensate for a chipped engine etc, but in reality I'd probably get it into the garage, watch the chassis collapse with corrosion and just leave it out of apathy.
JULIANHJ said:
Both my grandparents died last month...and I did the thankless task of clearing their house.
When you're dead...someone will just come along and fill up loads of black bags and take them to the dump.....some stuff will be put aside to auction on Ebay.....perhaps a few mementoes will be taken....but the rest will be sold.
Do your next of kin a favour....get rid of the crap!!!
As I was sorting through I was having morbid thoughts along the same lines. How do you deal with it? What happens to people's clothes, possessions etc? Is most of it binned/given away? I was thinking about how much of it means something to my parents but little to me...
The decent clothes I gave away to a charity...that happenned to have handily placed a notice through the door -some 3rd world thing.
The rest...underwear and older clothes just went in black bags and to the dump.
Most of the stuff was dumped...but everything had to be checked in case there were hidden papers/ letters etc.
When I got back home - I gleefully got rid of a load of crap stuff that I'd accumulated...with the very thought that I'd saved someone else the chore.
sadako said:
I have the feeling my future holds a half rebuilt metro turbo engine in my garage.
Got a half built mini engine in the shed, a couple more down the garage, the red mini is in bits on a caravan chassis, the blue one is in bits with the engine out. I was meant to have the blue one ready for Le Mans but that's not happening. I just read lots about it and become an expert and the project stays half finished.
Can anyone lend me a lairy mini so that I can get my motivation back. I sat in it the other day and that didn't hit the spot.
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