Post #209,327
6/1/05 9:35:32 AM
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"If you don't know what's in the bag, you don't need it."
Chyeah, right.
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Post #209,330
6/1/05 9:37:43 AM
8/21/07 5:52:09 AM
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My strategy
is to have movers put all boxes in garage.
Any unopened boxes at the end of a year can be hauled to the dump unopened. I've done this once before and it worked great.
Working on convincing wife of this plan though. She is much more stuff bound than I.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
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Post #209,332
6/1/05 9:42:27 AM
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My experience is...
A week after I get rid of something I find that I need it.
Or at least I think I need it.
I used to be a terrible packrat. I'm a little better now.
Luck with the move!
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #209,387
6/1/05 2:30:21 PM
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Au contraire...
It sounds like you were a great packrat!
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #209,394
6/1/05 3:00:12 PM
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I have found that having too much stuff . .
. . forces you to buy yet more stuff because you can't find things you know you have so you have to buy new ones. Just went through that with an electronic stud finder.
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Post #209,460
6/1/05 10:21:18 PM
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During our move
wife "you got that out of the garage! that is crap that didnt even belong to us!"
me" that crap is two new cannisters of 90 weight for when I change the gear lube in the van. I bought that in alaska before we left" (that was 5 years ago I'll get around to it sometime}
thanx,
bill
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Post #209,463
6/1/05 10:27:19 PM
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:-)
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Post #209,461
6/1/05 10:22:07 PM
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Bingo!
Weller solder gun ... {mumble}
bitchin German spl. pliers ... {grouse}
12, 14 mm box-end-wrenches ... ... {I NEED THOS! *now*}
Finally found in a paper sack, taken on a house-call kinda thing.
BAD little grey cells..
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Post #209,467
6/1/05 10:45:58 PM
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...
left-handed screwdriver
tube of shoe squeak
red television colour
patent crop rotater
....
:-)
Wade.
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Post #209,471
6/1/05 11:18:29 PM
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Spare muffler bearings
Bottle of halogen fluid
Tube of brake grease
--
Steve
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Post #209,474
6/1/05 11:32:42 PM
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50 feet of chow line
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Post #209,511
6/2/05 2:56:51 AM
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I've probably got all of those - - - somewhere.
My greatest triumph was about a year after departure of a former girlfriend who had insisted I move all my stuff out of the garage so her stuff could go in. A lot of it was still heaped into a mountain in the driveway with a tarp over it.
A client brought a failed Telex terminal to see if I could fix it. Bad power supply. I looked at the power supply and it seemed sort of familiar. I dove under the tarp with a flashlight and 10 minutes later everged with a brand new Telex power supply.
The client was impressed (well, so was I). Of course, until that time I hadn't a hint what it was except that it was a power supply and I bought it real cheap from a surplus store. I got good money for it.
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Post #209,525
6/2/05 7:47:50 AM
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I've got a third of a PDP-8 core memory module somewhere...
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Post #209,527
6/2/05 8:48:22 AM
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Case of pipe stretching oil
Left handed monkey wrench
1600bpi reel tape drive
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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Post #209,663
6/2/05 3:08:07 PM
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...
Just this week, I shredded my IBM Travel Expense sheets that went back to the 1960's! Big old folder moved from office to office, to home when I left IBM, from stack to stack. Talk about absolutely useless stuff!
I ran in to a the folder while looking for something else.
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #209,751
6/3/05 1:05:31 AM
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Hum it to sleep: KRS, RAR, JMS, SZL, 7402 ... zzzzzzzzzz
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