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Barefoot Andrew Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 20982 Location: Patchshire
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Ooh, bout time that was bumped...
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frewen
Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 10686
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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Never! It's pre electrickery and everything  |
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mochyn
Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 23446 Location: mid-Wales
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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I know. It's a wossname. You know, thingy. Oojah. |
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Hairyloon
Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 8293 Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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It is strange. I am great at decluttering other people's sheds/lofts/cupboards, but I can't seem to do my own.
I find that doubly odd, because I know out of mine what is crap and can be binned, but with somebody else's crap, there is no way of knowing if it is of some deep sentimental value, so an appropriate home for it needs to be found.
The basic trick is de-randomising the junk. |
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frewen
Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 10686
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| mochyn wrote: |
| I know. It's a wossname. You know, thingy. Oojah. |
Close very close  |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 33053 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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Is it some kind of sewing machine?
HL - I think that that's what is great about having a de-junking partner. They force you to examine if you are genuinely emotionally attached to things or just think you are.
Arvo freecycled my grandmother's clock instead of his grandmother's. I was emotionally attached to it, but it's been good to let it go. |
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sean Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 37920 Location: North Devon
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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Barograph? |
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frewen
Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 10686
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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No - but I can see why  |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 33053 Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Do you stuff stuff in the top and it comes out of the bottom flat? |
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frewen
Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 10686
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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No - stuff goes in the bottom  |
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sean Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 37920 Location: North Devon
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Is it something to do with music? (I'm thinking player piano type thingies.) |
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mihto
Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 3261 Location: West coast of Norway
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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I am not decluttering this, despite never using it and only just having unpacked it
Prize of self satisfaction to the person who can tell me what it is ! |
It is a beard-rolling machine. Men with long beards stumbled when they walked and needed this machine to make the beard more compact.
Now if there are any German speakers around you would know what I mean  |
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frewen
Joined: 08 Sep 2005 Posts: 10686
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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@ Sean - No - and it's smaller height wise than most of HFW's books !
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Hairyloon
Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 8293 Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Chez wrote: |
| HL - I think that that's what is great about having a de-junking partner. They force you to examine if you are genuinely emotionally attached to things or just think you are. |
A good way of doing that is to take it all to a car boot sale.
When you see it on the stall and decide you must keep it, you can just take it off. |
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Cathryn
Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Posts: 18152 Location: Ceredigion
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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This decluttering thread is becoming quite a challenge.
I am considering taking the pickup with me to the gathering on Saturday. However I will be bringing it back (nearly) empty.  |
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