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Mr Trebus - never thrown anything away

4 (12.5%)

Inveterate hoarder, it will come in one day

19 (59.4%)

Some excess (nice safe option!)

6 (18.8%)

Everything has a place and all junk disposed of

3 (9.4%)

Minimalist- I even have to buy new tools everytime to do things like oil change

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 21

[Murph]

My parts store:
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f329/carlton_mad/01052011290-1.jpg

In addition to this I have 3 sheds full of parts and a garage that houses my project car (and more parts).

It's all Carlton and Senator parts at the mo but I'm sure there will be some Omega parts in there before long.

My wife says I have a problem!

[dbug]

Hoarder - apart from a body shell, reckon I still have enough parts to rebuild my 1293 Cooper S racer.  Even found 2 x 2" SU carbs on a manifold off an old (1950s) 2.5 lit Riley - must be woth a few bob now

[SIR Philbutt]

+5 

+ 6 

+7

even got some of my dad's hoard from when he passed 10yr's ago   

[Rods2]

Hoarder.

The worst part in finding that 3" x 5/8 left hand threaded Whitworth bolt, when you need it, but you know you have one in the garage somewhere. 

All my commonly used consumables: screws, nut bolts etc are all in labeled racks of draws, as they are regularly used and when I building something, I want all the small hardware items there ready for use. Everything else is err.................. somewhere and I'm sure I will find it in a minute.   

[Vamps]

+5 

+ 6 

+7

even got some of my dad's hoard from when he passed 10yr's ago   

+8 I am a terrible hoarder and I seem to have taught swmbo to be, every cupboard, drawer in the house, loft, garage and shed is full....... I bought one of those garden mulcher machines, crushes branches etc, it is in the porch as I have no room to put it in the garage....

We really must have a declutter before Christmas, swmbo did one cupboard in the kitchen yesterday and filled 2 black bags of stuff to go to the tip....

[OOMV6]

Hoarder here.

"I will need it the day after I throw it out."

I've proved many a time that just ain't the case.

And on the very rare occasion that it has been, the cost / hassle of getting a new whatever it was I threw out, was minimal. I speak from experience of once being a hoarder ... not anymore. It just ain't work clogging up the place with stuff which may, just might, maybe, possibly, be useful when it is 30 deg on Christmas Day in Wolverhampton.
Really, I have spent a lot of time over the last few years, bit by bit getting rid of stuff. This process in itself proved I didn't need the crap.
I made a "throw out pile" and a "keep it pile". Once I threw out I repeated the process with the keep pile. More went. And so on.
So now, nothing in my cellar, nothing in my attic, and what I need in my garage.
Ok, there may be a little junk, but nothing that couldn't be thrown out in one visit to the recycling centre.

Added bonus being that when I want that 3" x 5/8 left hand threaded Whitworth bolt, I know where it is. Or know I ain't got one.

[SIR Philbutt]

Hoarder here.

"I will need it the day after I throw it out."

I've proved many a time that just ain't the case.

And on the very rare occasion that it has been, the cost / hassle of getting a new whatever it was I threw out, was minimal. I speak from experience of once being a hoarder ... not anymore. It just ain't work clogging up the place with stuff which may, just might, maybe, possibly, be useful when it is 30 deg on Christmas Day in Wolverhampton.
Really, I have spent a lot of time over the last few years, bit by bit getting rid of stuff. This process in itself proved I didn't need the crap.
I made a "throw out pile" and a "keep it pile". Once I threw out I repeated the process with the keep pile. More went. And so on.
So now, nothing in my cellar, nothing in my attic, and what I need in my garage.
Ok, there may be a little junk, but nothing that couldn't be thrown out in one visit to the recycling centre.

Added bonus being that when I want that 3" x 5/8 left hand threaded Whitworth bolt, I know where it is. Or know I ain't got one.

You've have been in Germany quite long enough OOM.  Need to get over to the UK and loose some of that efficiency 

Seriously though would love to do the same. Just need to get my other omega off the drive and get a BIG skip 

[albitz]

Ive even chucked boxes of Omega spares in a skip this year due to having no room left to store them.Im planing on having a proper sort out of my shed next week,so there will be more trips to the tip to come.
Cant put any of it in the loft as that so full of allsorts of stuff that Im expecting the ceilings to start coming down sometime soon.

[Vamps]

Ive even chucked boxes of Omega spares in a skip this year due to having no room left to store them.Im planing on having a proper sort out of my shed next week,so there will be more trips to the tip to come.
Cant put any of it in the loft as that so full of allsorts of stuff that Im expecting the ceilings to start coming down sometime soon.

That's a familiar feeling......

[jibberwobble]

Hoarder.

Currently building a 27' x 14' work shop and I'm still not sure it will all go in! Steptoe and son have nothin on me 

[Auto Addict]

Hoarder, as it will come in useful one day, problem is, I can never find it, so have to buy one.

[plym ian]

Hoarder, as it will come in useful one day, problem is, I can never find it, so have to buy one.

yeah and then find what you were looking for a few days after you used the new one and can't take it back

[cam2502]

I tend to keep all sorts of stuff for a while with the " could come in handy" moto. It never does so after maybe a year it gets binned. Drives swmbo nuts 

[Mr Skrunts]

Throw it out. I'm on wife number three.
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Throw it out. I'm on wife number three.

I have a lovely spare room if ever you discard Dusty.   

[OOMV6]

Hoarder here.

"I will need it the day after I throw it out."

I've proved many a time that just ain't the case.

And on the very rare occasion that it has been, the cost / hassle of getting a new whatever it was I threw out, was minimal. I speak from experience of once being a hoarder ... not anymore. It just ain't work clogging up the place with stuff which may, just might, maybe, possibly, be useful when it is 30 deg on Christmas Day in Wolverhampton.
Really, I have spent a lot of time over the last few years, bit by bit getting rid of stuff. This process in itself proved I didn't need the crap.
I made a "throw out pile" and a "keep it pile". Once I threw out I repeated the process with the keep pile. More went. And so on.
So now, nothing in my cellar, nothing in my attic, and what I need in my garage.
Ok, there may be a little junk, but nothing that couldn't be thrown out in one visit to the recycling centre.

Added bonus being that when I want that 3" x 5/8 left hand threaded Whitworth bolt, I know where it is. Or know I ain't got one.

You've have been in Germany quite long enough OOM.  Need to get over to the UK and loose some of that efficiency 

Seriously though would love to do the same. Just need to get my other omega off the drive and get a BIG skip 

 

Yeah, maybe. 
Thing was, I remember moving to Luxembourg in '96. I came with ALL my wordly possessions. Everything I owned. In a Ford Sierra. Not an estate.
After living in apartments and accumulating the normal furniture stuff, then bought a house in 2001. That's where it all went wrong. Basically the more space you have, the more crap you keep. And this house has loads of storage space.
I think I must have had one of "those" moments and a huge realisation that "it may come in useful one day" is 99.9% of the time a load of utter bull - cos it dooesn't.
Each to their own, I suppose. My sympathies to the partners of you hoarders  - unless of course they are the same. Then sympathies to you both.