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Recycling bin junkie!

Fuzzbuster

Fuzzbuster

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I get anxious when it is the night before the recycling bin needs to go out! I use the treasures in the recycling bin for all sorts of projects. When it is time for it to go I often think to myself "am I going to be painting anything? Do I need to keep any small containers for waste oil or brake fluid?" Clean zip lock bags don't even make it in there, they go straight to a designated pile! Any nice unique containers are strictly put aside just in case. I have even trained my daughter to rummage the recycling bin when she is working on a school project, sometimes I will be in the garage and the door will open and I will hear the bins being moved around, sure enough it is her looking for gold! She will pull out a bottle cap or piece of cardboard and say, "ah this is what I am looking for!" When i bring the bins in from the street after they have been picked up I look inside and think "I have no supplies". Then soon enough the bin starts to fill again and everything is good again! Am I the only one with this problem! 😂😂😂
 
I just keep 3 or 4 empty windshield washer bottles on the shelf beside the fresh oil, coolant, and other fluids. I throw away the rest unless my stockpile is low.

Same with cardboard. I always have a couple of small shipping boxes and as many of the larger furniture boxes (flattened) as possible, because I don't get those very often.

Those doesn't sound like hoarding, but... I also keep every OEM part from the family cars and bike, broken or not.

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I have the manly prerequisite pieces of lumber and metal pipe that will surely come in handy one day.

.... and glass panes...... and wire....... and old bricks.....

I may have a problem.

 
We should all seek group therapy.

You need a computer from 10 years ago. its in isle 3

You need a rare DC power supply, isle 5

Lumber is in 7

Aluminum and other metals, 8

Tool bags, boxes

Last time @mimico_polak came by he said. What happened to your garage, it was so clean the last time I was here.

lol.
 
oioioi said:
We should all seek group therapy.

You need a computer from 10 years ago. its in isle 3

You need a rare DC power supply, isle 5

Lumber is in 7

Aluminum and other metals, 8

Tool bags, boxes

Last time @mimico_polak came by he said. What happened to your garage, it was so clean the last time I was here.

lol.
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Don't forget the bin of miscellaneous cords and connectors
 
I used a computer power supply recently.

It only sat there waiting for it's day for 3 years. That an infant in hoarding terms.
 
oioioi said:
I used a computer power supply recently.

It only sat there waiting for it's day for 3 years. That an infant in hoarding terms.
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This is completely understandable, I used to have a good stack of them. Then over time all the spares were naturally depleted.

Now, how many Ethernet patch cables with slightly broken RJ45 connectors are acceptable to keep on hand as spares?
 
TwistedKestrel said:
This is completely understandable, I used to have a good stack of them. Then over time all the spares were naturally depleted.

Now, how many Ethernet patch cables with slightly broken RJ45 connectors are acceptable to keep on hand as spares?
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I don't hold onto those any more.
I use enough patch cables on a regular basis and can buy them for cheap and have plenty new ones on hand. Its not worth it for me to hold onto the "almost " broken ones.
I also have 100's of connectors that I can fix the cable.
 
mimico_polak said:
You guys can find things in your garage? Well look at you elites.
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After a 3 hour search for a small item that I KNOW I have seen here recently,....... or maybe over there.... actually not here, it was wayyyyy over there.

FAKKK I just spent 3 hours looking for a $10 item.
 
oioioi said:
Both @shanekingsley and I use The largest verified route archive thanks to MyRoute-app RouteXperts to create routes and convert them to GPX files.

I have the free version and it works well for my needs.
If you pay for it there are additional features, one of the main differences, IMO is that the map interface is the Google maps version and not their own. Their own map interface comes with the Free.

You can also pay for the navigation portion which will also allow you to use the navigation map as a GPS.

I have been meaning to pay for the lifetime subscription but I'm having a hard time justifying it. Maybe because its a subscription and not a physical item like a jacket or accessory.

All your routes are saved there and you can modify them on the fly, share them with others, make them public etc.

SK wrote about it enough times in other threads.

Give it a try, free version does not expire. Be warned, you may not like the map interface that they use. We are all used to the Google interface.

I often have the Google map on once screen and this site on the other.
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Going with wrong thread on this one.....
 
I put my used oil filters in one of those flip top dishwasher pods containers! Works great, when full off to the dump or crappy tire!
 
Not me. I love a good purge.
The rest of my family however…
Any junk that has piled up is by protest from me.
“How long did that sit around lost/unused? You clearly didn’t need it for the past 5 years; throw it out!”
 
I have 26.8 kilometres of stereo patch cords , mostly from CDs , reel to reel and cassette players and other dead technology.
I’m a woodworker so I keep every piece of scrap exotic lumber , about once a month we light the pizza oven and burn $300 worth of wood and make a $4 pizza .
And every piece of tired rope that comes off a boat , hundreds of feet that will likely never be used again .
I don’t need to go rummaging around the recycling bin , every yogurt container gets rinsed and stacked for painting tubs , mixing grout , draining stuff , holding small parts . I only eat yogurt for the containers.


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Wind Shear said:
Not me. I love a good purge.
The rest of my family however…
Any junk that has piled up is by protest from me.
“How long did that sit around lost/unused? You clearly didn’t need it for the past 5 years; throw it out!”
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This.

We aren't very bad with hoarding used stuff,
but my wife cannot help but buy at least 2 extras of disposable products; toothpaste, soaps, etc..and that's when the one we have is still at 50% but she never checks on the stock she originally bought so we end up with 7 tubes of toothpaste etc. 🤦🏽‍♂️
 
The missus does go to shoppers drug on discount Tuesday and loads up on toothpastes, shampoo, it’s stuff we will use eventually so that’s ok . And the Costco skid of toilet paper . With 4 bathrooms you put 30 rolls per and the skid is dispersed. Enevitably I’ll drop a 4lb butter chicken night log in the first bathroom that will run out .


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