Stuff you won’t sell or bin

[Onoff]

Not playing for fear of embarrassment. I'm nearly 60 and only sold one thing ever. That was to someone on here at cost. To say I'm a hoarder is an understatement.

 

[qwakers]

stuff i wont sell? my house.

it took years of scheming, scrimping and saving, then more years of hunting to get a house, any house, for less than £100k, with a big enough rear garden, with vehicle access to put my workshop on.

yes sure, id like a bigger workshop, or at least somewhere with enough land to store all my vehicles. but as it stands that is a pipe dream.

if i where to be unlucky enough that all the cards come tumbling down, that house is getting rented out minus the workshop until i can afford to move back in....

it is literally the embodiment of my wildest dreams come true, and im very, very grateful for it.

everything else can go, at the right price.

 

[My Old Landy]

This vice. I have had it since starting work, I don't even remember who gave it me. It has been installed in every shed, garage or workshop I have ever had.
44 years and counting.

 

[ukracer]

I cannot believe this forum. Uncanny the way things coincide .Just spent the day with grandson moving my "alternative parts dept " from the bottom of the garden to the front ready for the arrival of the skip. the state of shock is just beginning to take hold. All I've got to do is resist the urge to have another rummage just to make sure nothing is recoverable .

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I literally feel ill when trying to sort out my stashed gear.

 

[Onoff]

I literally feel ill when trying to sort out my stashed gear.

Overwhelmed is how I feel trying to sort stuff out. I go into the garage, can't move for stuff and come out again. Everything has a story, triggers a memory or is part of a plan.

 

[northwest]

I hv an old plastic cased battery charger that belonged to an old friend, I will never get rid of it, always makes me smile when I use it, George was an old rogue. :-)

 

[Memmeddu]

The only tools I've bought I would not ever get rid off are
My first 5" metabo grinder, my SDS drill and my Harris cutting torch set.
Everything else is disposable if it break gets replaced if I don't need it anymore get sold whatever what.
Today for example I've got an emuge M45 machine tap, I'll probably never use it but it's brand new and might be useful for chasing threads (4mm pitch even my lathe can't reproduce it)

 

[Smallfry]

I have shelves full of half full (or less) boxes of screws, nuts, bolts, washers, timber and plywood offcuts. Bits of metal, engine parts, gearboxes, axles, a mountain of Land Rover parts, another almost as big mountain of Rover car parts, including interiors, and heaven knows what else. Mum died in 1995 and her house is full of my stuff, cars, tractors, trailers. Machine tools that I have minimal tooling for, blah blah. If it were gone I could rent or sell the house. Its ridiculous.

I just cannot get rid of anything, because in my mind I want it. Also know some of it is worth money. I have recently found dads record vice, which was old when I was a toddler.

I know if I were to just dump it all, I probably wouldn't miss it, and the money has been spent and gone, but still I can't do it. Its a sickness.

What will I do if it was all gone ? Climbing the walls probably. Just cant imagine having nothing to do

 

[ukracer]

I just cannot get rid of anything, because in my mind I want it. Also know some of it is worth money. I have recently found dads record vice, which was old when I was a toddler.

I know if I were to just dump it all, I probably wouldn't miss it, and the money has been spent and gone, but still I can't do it. Its a sickness.

What will I do if it was all gone ? Climbing the walls probably. Just cant imagine having nothing to do

Snap....

 

[Onoff]

I know if I were to just dump it all, I probably wouldn't miss it, and the money has been spent and gone, but still I can't do it. Its a sickness.

Clearly it's catching!

 

[redlig]

As I have mentioned before I have always lived with the mantra , as originated 60 years ago by a housemate . " It will come in handy even if I never use it."

People without this affection just have no idea the trauma involved in disposing of seemingly useless items and cannot imagine alternative uses for them.

 

[redlig]

Overwhelmed is how I feel trying to sort stuff out. I go into the garage, can't move for stuff and come out again. Everything has a story, triggers a memory or is part of a plan.

When we were moving the "spares dept yesterday my grandson commented on the fact that I could remember virtually every item and its history. It's just a pity that I can't remember which day of the week it is.

 

[Arc Tourist]

But does it still fit!

Yeah, I was full grown at a young age, but have widened slightly over the years. The top snap makes the collar a bit tight now, and the waist tie strap for the bib seems a little bit shorter.

 

[frank horton]

I'm 75 and still buying odd stuff....hahaha......
wife knows the value of everything AND what I paid for it.....
pity anybody that tries to do her over a price...

 

[Arc Tourist]

............................................... What will I do if it was all gone ? Climbing the walls probably. Just cant imagine having nothing to do

Same here, got to have a project to keep me going, and have to have all the necessary the tools to do what I know I'm capable of doing.

 

[droopsnoot]

Visiting a mate* yesterday who is in the middle of trying to empty his old house so he can put it on the market, and having this similar discussion, should spur me on to start getting rid of some stuff. Everywhere at home is full, my shed is full, and that's after I've got rid of quite a lot of my late parents stash of stuff. I tend to keep steel offcuts on the basis they'll come in handy, but now they've taken over more than half of the bench it may be time to get rid of some. My Dad has loads of old bits of wood, but the trouble with stuff like that is how to get rid of it. Must try harder.

( * Yes, I went because he'd got some old pieces of greenhouse glass he didn't want to throw in the bin. They're not the size I wanted, but they could be used if necessary. )

 

[Keith 66]

I tend to acquire stuff as i have a reputation as a bit of a womble & ace recycler. The bloody stuff just appears outside my shed or i get offered it. I have begun to say no & have a good dung out twice a year. Im due another one very shortly which will be three this year.
But i wont sell my best woodworking tools, many of which were my Dads.

 

[Onoff]

This vice. I have had it since starting work, I don't even remember who gave it me. It has been installed in every shed, garage or workshop I have ever had.
44 years and counting.

Can you advise what the area I've highlighted in red is used for, it's something I'm unfamiliar with?

 

[arther dailey]

Not playing for fear of embarrassment. I'm nearly 60 and only sold one thing ever. That was to someone on here at cost. To say I'm a hoarder is an understatement.

don t see anything wrong with keeping stuff personally , as long as kitchen etc is clean and hygenic and your a decent person to others , this idea that you must live in a empty white box with no momentos of family around you is bizare , yes you don t want to be keeping yesterdays pitza box and trash we can all agree on that .

 

[cheb]

Organisation is important too IMO. I've loads of stuff but it's sorted and labelled in boxen.

One habit I'm fairly ruthless with is shifting on all the extras for something if that something goes. Why keep spares for a vehicle you are never likely to own again, especially used ones that might come in handy?