I'm getting a bit sick of junk...but I still love it ?
I am envious of those who are on the road permanently and what they have is what they've got.
Just been up the shed - 5 hammers, 4 electric saws 3 battery drills, routers plunge drills biscuit joiners grinders pedestal drills welders hundreds of containers of screws,nuts and bolts, electrical connectors, 4 angle grinders about 2000 old car magazines, boxes of old bottles, boxes of old horse gear, a tonne of handy bits of timber, old stuff from the kids when they were growing up plus about another tonne of old weather bureau bits and pieces that exist nowhere else. Multiply this by 10 and that's about what I've got. Even got stuff I found when as a kid I used to haunt Tempe tip for scrap metal..
Most of my kids (7 of them) have the same problem though to a lesser degree. It's this materialistic society we live in that I blame (not me!)
But I do really love going up the shed and pulling apart a busted breadmaker for example and removing anything that could come in handy and can spend many hours on it.
So to all you dudes out there with just the clothes you wear and the bed you sleep on, I envy you.
I am a bit like you hako,you never know when you need some of those things, not to often I throw things away,I am a bit like a bower bird anything that shines I pick it up, have a great day.
Hi Hako,as per the heading ,why do we keep it?....well the answer is obvious.... WE MIGHT NEED IT ONE DAY.I'm slowly getting rid of all those things I have collected over the last thirty years,not rubbish ,just good bits and pieces that are too good to throw out.I have given most tools to my sons and very slowly letting other items go to new homes.Being on the road full time with no immediate use items to cart around the country sounds good. cheers Peter
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SOME POLITICIANS AND BABIES NAPPIES SHOULD BE CHANGED OFTEN FOR THE SAME REASON.
Howdyeeeee; RE: Junk - why do we keep it?,,, No use asking me,,,, full time on the road , having tooooooo much fun to be worried, about ,,,,,Junk,,,,,,,a very excited Baby boomer ,and full time fruit loop Nomad Billeeeeeee
Hi Dennis, I had the same problem. I moved from Toowoomba 12 months ago to start a new life with a friend of 15 years. That has turned into a nightmare, but the positive thing to come out of it is I have decluttered my life. If I put a value on the junk I disposed of, or gave away at a fraction of its value, we'd be talking a lot of money .
I am basically in a position to live on the road for some time once I get the current nightmare sorted. This could never have happened with the junk I owned.
We have a rule about getting new stuff - to make space something of similar size has to be chucked. Believe me that makes you think about what you're buying and why.
A palm frond cut by a neighbour fell to crack a copper fitting on the direct flow HWS. So, hearing the water hissing in the pipes in the quiet late hours I found and fixed it with a rescued fitting and tools from the shed.
Try to do that with madam's stored clobber that cost heaps but could only fit again and be fashionable in another life.
There is a difference between junk and 'good stuff' and it can provide hot water in the a.m. - in lieu of cold from the shower and likely frosty tongue as well (as the nearest bloke, it would be my fault).
Have to admit though, that especially for women who have raised children, there are many precious and some sad feelings of loss in those things that they keep. Not as simple as discarding blokes' stuff that like us, is due for recycling.
