If in doubt, Sling it out… & then regret it later
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Quoted many years ago by one of my Managers, & find it quite useful at times.
I'm having a bit of a spring clean for Milkyway Sr (95).
A real hoarder... Shed, greenhouse & garage.
Keep or throw...or donate of course.
(Overcoming that mantra of "It might come in useful ONE DAY".
When he does use a bit of old tat... it's a "glad I kept that" moment.
I'm having a bit of a spring clean for Milkyway Sr (95).
A real hoarder... Shed, greenhouse & garage.
Keep or throw...or donate of course.
(Overcoming that mantra of "It might come in useful ONE DAY".
When he does use a bit of old tat... it's a "glad I kept that" moment.
Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 3rd March 16:29
gotoPzero said:
Cleaning out my garage whilst my car is in for a service this weekend. My MO is if its not been used in the last 10 years then its going to the tip!
I have tins of paint from 2005 that the wife says might be needed one day.... I think they might just get "lost"....
10 years! My MO is 1 - unless very specialist. I have tins of paint from 2005 that the wife says might be needed one day.... I think they might just get "lost"....
Had to clear my mother's house when she went into a dementia care-home a few years back.
It took forever as she was a hoarder and addicted to buyng clothes from the shopping channels.
One room was full from floor to ceiling with bags of unopened packages of clothing.
Then there were financial bits of paper everywhere going back forty years, with everything having to be looked at.
I think there are a handful of storage boxes in the garage now out of everything that filled her house.
Don't like clutter at all these days.
It took forever as she was a hoarder and addicted to buyng clothes from the shopping channels.
One room was full from floor to ceiling with bags of unopened packages of clothing.
Then there were financial bits of paper everywhere going back forty years, with everything having to be looked at.
I think there are a handful of storage boxes in the garage now out of everything that filled her house.
Don't like clutter at all these days.
Ah yes... Forgot the donate part.(Header edited).
The house clear out day, when that time comes... Lots of car boot sale & donating stuff in prospect.
(Small change here & there... most likely go to charity(s) & it could be fun as well).
NB: Yarp... the infamous strobe light & battery PH tester.
( Parts for cars long since departed too... & lots of "Do you know what that's off or used for".)
Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 3rd March 16:41
Milkyway said:
Quoted many years ago by one of my Managers, & find it quite useful at times.
I'm having a bit of a spring clean for Milkyway Sr (95).
A real hoarder... Shed, greenhouse & garage.
Keep or throw...or donate of course.
(Overcoming that mantra of "It might come in useful ONE DAY".
When he does use a bit of old tat... it's a "glad I kept that" moment.
Why don't you just put 'my dad' instead of the milkyway sr nonsense?I'm having a bit of a spring clean for Milkyway Sr (95).
A real hoarder... Shed, greenhouse & garage.
Keep or throw...or donate of course.
(Overcoming that mantra of "It might come in useful ONE DAY".
When he does use a bit of old tat... it's a "glad I kept that" moment.
Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 3rd March 16:29
lord trumpton said:
Why don't you just put 'my dad' instead of the milkyway sr nonsense?
Strange thing to ask. Why shouldn't milkyway use that phrase given you obviously understand who he is referring to.It's a forum thing, same as I sometimes mention my "my other half" or "the missus" rather than just saying my wife.
Don't pretend you've not done the same.
I have had similar issues with parents hoarding ancient technology and completely useless items in their loft. We hired a skip last summer which was promptly filled with about 20 years of computers, old hi-fis and a broken tent from circa 1982 which had lain undisturbed since they moved in to their house 40 years previous.
I do keep some things but only where they could be genuinely useful and my favourite recent hoard was a very specific car part.
My wife's first car was a Fiat 500 which as anyone who has ever had one will know, has a tendency to break the door handle hinge making it impossible to open the door from the outside. Around 2011, I ordered a replacement which ended up showing a much longer delivery time than expected but as it was low value I just decided to wait rather than cancel. In the meantime she was getting so annoyed at climbing over from the passenger side that I ordered a more expensive but faster delivery option which arrived in a couple of days and was promptly fitted. The original order arrived after a few weeks and was filed in an old tool box next to assorted individual screws which were all different to each other but may have come in useful one day.
The Fiat was sold around 2013 and I kept bumping into the hinge while retrieving said individual screws but always considered that it may still be useful as who knows if I may come across someone some day with the same car in need of it.
About 6 months ago we were on the lookout for a cheap car to use as a runabout for about 10 miles a week while I have the family car at work. After much deliberation, my wife decided to get another 500, over a decade after selling her previous one albeit in "S" rather than "Pop" spec.
2 weeks ago the door handle hinge snapped...
I do keep some things but only where they could be genuinely useful and my favourite recent hoard was a very specific car part.
My wife's first car was a Fiat 500 which as anyone who has ever had one will know, has a tendency to break the door handle hinge making it impossible to open the door from the outside. Around 2011, I ordered a replacement which ended up showing a much longer delivery time than expected but as it was low value I just decided to wait rather than cancel. In the meantime she was getting so annoyed at climbing over from the passenger side that I ordered a more expensive but faster delivery option which arrived in a couple of days and was promptly fitted. The original order arrived after a few weeks and was filed in an old tool box next to assorted individual screws which were all different to each other but may have come in useful one day.
The Fiat was sold around 2013 and I kept bumping into the hinge while retrieving said individual screws but always considered that it may still be useful as who knows if I may come across someone some day with the same car in need of it.
About 6 months ago we were on the lookout for a cheap car to use as a runabout for about 10 miles a week while I have the family car at work. After much deliberation, my wife decided to get another 500, over a decade after selling her previous one albeit in "S" rather than "Pop" spec.
2 weeks ago the door handle hinge snapped...
If you're intent on skipping it all, save some effort by putting the better stuff on the drive and chances are skip rats will have it away; if they're shy put a "garage sale" ad on facebook and then give it all away rather than selling, hoarders of tat will descend and carry most of it away.
.The title of this thread reads like the subtitle for every 5S* event that I have had the misfortune to experience, in my manufacturing engineer days.
Complex jigs and tools, covered in dust, would be thrown away with great enthusiasm, only for an order to come in for their product a few months later. This would necessitate remanufacture of the tooling, thus negating any profit which might have been made on the items, plus a disgruntled customer having been subjected to a ridiculously long lead time.
The upside of 5S's is that I have a garage fully equipped with blue and orange shelving, a floor-mounted pillar drill and other paraphenalia, obtained either on a free issue note, or at a very nominal outlay, from the red tag area (items to be dumped, unless claimed by a user).
Complex jigs and tools, covered in dust, would be thrown away with great enthusiasm, only for an order to come in for their product a few months later. This would necessitate remanufacture of the tooling, thus negating any profit which might have been made on the items, plus a disgruntled customer having been subjected to a ridiculously long lead time.
The upside of 5S's is that I have a garage fully equipped with blue and orange shelving, a floor-mounted pillar drill and other paraphenalia, obtained either on a free issue note, or at a very nominal outlay, from the red tag area (items to be dumped, unless claimed by a user).
- 5S - A Japanese workplace methodology which roughly translates to 'sort', 'set in order', 'shine', 'standardize', and 'sustain'.
Milkyway said:
Quoted many years ago by one of my Managers, & find it quite useful at times.
I'm having a bit of a spring clean for Milkyway Sr (95).
A real hoarder... Shed, greenhouse & garage.
Keep or throw...or donate of course.
(Overcoming that mantra of "It might come in useful ONE DAY".
When he does use a bit of old tat... it's a "glad I kept that" moment.
That's some haiku.I'm having a bit of a spring clean for Milkyway Sr (95).
A real hoarder... Shed, greenhouse & garage.
Keep or throw...or donate of course.
(Overcoming that mantra of "It might come in useful ONE DAY".
When he does use a bit of old tat... it's a "glad I kept that" moment.
Edited by Milkyway on Sunday 3rd March 16:29
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