travolta
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Post by travolta on Nov 16, 2022 18:26:37 GMT
Try a market stall or a car boot. You have got to enjoy the life tho' (and not be impatient).
I used to off load heaps of 'stuff ' ,which I tend to give to charity these days.
Also had a website where I sold high end designer scarves : Gucci ,Hermes etc. Very lucrative .
Probably knocked P2P into a cocked hat ,with the exception of good old Ratesetter.
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Nov 16, 2022 19:17:28 GMT
Fresh out of toenail clippings and fag butts but do have some cat fur. Another sofa and 2 single mattresses gone to the tip. Searching through storage crates for more stuff to go on ebay. A good line from a movie(name it)possessions will possess you comes to mind. If I'm not using it ....get rid. Working towards a house size reduction in coming years so not a bad time to get decluttering. It is worth doing, I ended up here after a split, and just bought loads of stuff down, didn't have time to sort, then I got a transit van full of stuff "delivered" no did I want it ... Which meant the house was cluttered before I got settled, years on with trying to run a business and have some form of life a lot still needs to be sorted but space is an issue, I can put stuff in 3 categories Keep, Sell & Dump but unless I then spend time advertising it the Sell stuff is still sitting around as is some of the dump. I'm getting there but it's slow, and I have to start to be more ruthless. That applies both to personal and business stock some isn't selling so time to dump, at least the tip is now only a 5 minute car trip, the original tip for the area was well over an hour round trip. I suppose that was also a reason some didn't get done.
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Post by moonraker on Nov 17, 2022 8:27:20 GMT
... Working towards a house size reduction in coming years so not a bad time to get decluttering. Me too. I've been gradually decluttering for years, concentrating on the aforementioned stamp collections. I've got no immediate family, so have built up a small team of people who might help out with actual house clearance etc if/when I become very infirm, andI aim to make the chore as easy as possible for them. (I was glad to see the back of a clunky/clanky garden roller that a neighbour gave me 40 years ago. Three young men loaded it into the back of their car and drove off with the rear of the vehicle sagging ominously.)
The most helpful thing that I could still do is to downsize, making the team's task easier. A widowed cousin has just done this and moved into a (pokey) flat.
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Post by mogish on Nov 17, 2022 13:25:48 GMT
To me is saves doing the inevitable later. Do it while you have the energy and motivation. If you can make a few bob then great, if not then having space to move freely without constantly shifting stuff is so much easier. It's a fine line between hoarding and throwing stuff out you may have to buy later. Ultimately if I've not used it for a while its ditched.
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Post by bracknellboy on Nov 17, 2022 14:14:39 GMT
To me is saves doing the inevitable later. Do it while you have the energy and motivation. If you can make a few bob then great, if not then having space to move freely without constantly shifting stuff is so much easier. It's a fine line between hoarding and throwing stuff out you may have to buy later.
Ultimately if I've not used it for a while its ditched. My brother (based in US) has the guideline: "if it won't get more than $20 on eBay it isn't worth bothering doing. So chuck it out, knowing if you ever need it, it's not going to cost you more than $20 to get it again" I think that is probably not a bad mantra
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Post by moonraker on Nov 17, 2022 14:30:18 GMT
My brother (based in US) has the guideline: "if it won't get more than $20 on eBay it isn't worth bothering doing. So chuck it out, knowing if you ever need it, it's not going to cost you more than $20 to get it again" I think that is probably not a bad mantra One can never tell. As a collector of postcards and ephemera, I don't like to throw anything may that might just interest someone else Above I mention a tatty six-page leaflet commemorating the 50th anniversary of my school, plus ten pages of my recollections in schoolboy scrawl and a group photo, that went for £21.
Last week a somewhat bland postcard went on eBay for £56, with two people other than the winner very interested. (So was I, but I didn't bother to compete). It showed Codford St Mary Church and a few tents and was postmarked October 1914. Cards of the locality published in the next three years are rather more interesting, showing army hutments under construction and complete; they usually fetch £8-12 each. But that first card showed the tents that provided temporary accommodation for "Kitchener" recruits and I for one had never seen a copy of it in 26 years' collecting. The vendor must have been surprised - and delighted.
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Post by adrianc on Nov 17, 2022 14:43:07 GMT
As a collector of postcards and ephemera, I don't like to throw anything may that might just interest someone else Above I mention a tatty six-page leaflet commemorating the 50th anniversary of my school, plus ten pages of my recollections in schoolboy scrawl and a group photo, that went for £21. Scan 'em, put 'em on appropriate groups on social media, and offer the originals to anybody in the groups that want 'em. I can't think of many things I'd want to keep less than "ten pages of my recollections in schoolboy scrawl"...
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travolta
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Post by travolta on Nov 17, 2022 22:13:49 GMT
Sorry if I've posted this before . I had to house clear my late Uncle's estate . Each room was crammmed to the ceiling with newspapers (Telegraph) , interleaved. here and there. with his share certificates . I'm sure we missed a few too. Inheritance concentrates the mind ....but even so .. Make your relatives work for it ! Clutter on !
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Nov 18, 2022 11:07:45 GMT
Sorry if I've posted this before . I had to house clear my late Uncle's estate . Each room was crammmed to the ceiling with newspapers (Telegraph) , interleaved. here and there. with his share certificates . I'm sure we missed a few too. Inheritance concentrates the mind ....but even so .. Make your relatives work for it ! Clutter on ! LOLI thought my late uncle was the only one that did that, at one point in his lounge there were neatly stacked newspapers floor to ceiling and about 6ft square, and share certificates in amongst them.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2022 11:13:09 GMT
"dump" what a world where we see not taking responsability for too much stuff by dumping it on the government.
boiled frog is so obvious
Yesterday I repaired a pair of garden shears, they already have a rebuilt handle and now the pivot point is falling apart. Talking to friends they all said, throw them away, where is "away"?
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Post by adrianc on Nov 18, 2022 11:22:15 GMT
Yesterday I repaired a pair of garden shears, they already have a rebuilt handle and now the pivot point is falling apart. Talking to friends they all said, throw them away, where is "away"?
Metals skip at the tip, from where the steel gets recycled. Next time you see it, it'll be a tin of beans, or the front wing of your next car.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2022 11:28:10 GMT
Great idea, but since the vast majority of recycled steel still generates CO2, why not just repair?
not sure away exists and certainly don't want to send stuff there unless I really have to
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Post by adrianc on Nov 18, 2022 12:46:38 GMT
Why not indeed...
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Nov 18, 2022 22:48:28 GMT
most of my friends take the pee out of my phone because it's over 4 years old.
my laptop is creaking now, but it is 9 years old
that is one of the issue the constant "need" to have new tech, with mobiles in particular at ridiculous prices
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2022 23:05:08 GMT
most of my friends take the pee out of my phone because it's over 4 years old. I had the misfortune to run into one of those balaclava-clad knife-armed bike-riding phone thieves last time I was in London, a couple of months ago. I scared him off, but thats another story. Cue my old-man grumpiness - kids these days can't even carry out a proper mugging etc. But my wife suggested I should have just showed him my phone - a decrepit decade-old Nokia that can barely hold a charge these days. Maybe he'd have felt sorry for me and handed over his phone instead
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