when I have been successful at this... I've thought of myself collecting space instead of letting items do it for me. Itworks for a while.
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Barry Levine wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I'm just writing this out of frustration with myself. > My workshop, which is as old as the house... Twenty years, is filled with > the detritus of projects going back those twenty years, and I can't seem to > get myself to throw anything away! What's wrong with me? I need a > twelve-step program... Pack-rats anonymous. > "Hello, my name is Barry Levine... And I keep workshop crap!" > > I have scraps of odd-shaped wood which are good for nothing, except the > fireplace. > I have specialty nuts, bolts and various other fastening hardware which, if > they ever had a purpose, I've long since forgotten what it is. But, of > course, you never know when you're going to need a specialty fastener for > something which, currently, doesn't exist. > I have old power tools which no longer work. > I have table-saw blades with broken teeth. Anyone in need of a 10 inch > sawblade with broken teeth? Didn't think so. > > I have scraps of PVC... Again, good for nothing. > I have old Christmas tree lights which found their way to my workshop a > decade ago because they weren't working. They're still not working. Am I > going to bother to fix them? No! So, why do I still have them? > Why do I have allen wrenches which came with something or another, yet I no > longer own the something or another? > Why do I hang on to a handsaw which is hopelessly bowed? > Why do I have spools of speaker wire for speakers which I no longer have?... > Speaker wire that I'll never use again, having long since moved on to other > types of speaker wire? Is it a sin to throw away old speaker wire? > I have an old toybox down there, which one of my kids broke when he was > about 5 years old. He's now twenty-two. And, the toybox wasn't anything > special when we bought it! Though, I suppose it does serve a purpose in > that it is the storage place for a whole bunch of other crap which I'll > never need or use again. > I have an old wooden kitchen chair waiting to be fixed. We replaced that > entire kitchen set about 5 years ago. We got rid of it... Except this > chair... Which, of course, is still sitting down there, waiting for me to > fix. > And the old paint! The paint cans! Paint cans from when the house was > first built! Can you believe it? > And batteries, and battery chargers... From tools which no longer work. > But, you just never know when they might spring back to life, and if I threw > away the batteries, I'd be sunk. So, there they sit... Just waiting for a > purpose in life. > > > Does anyone know of a cure for this disease? > I'd be forever in your debt! > > --Barry > > > > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following Address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list > just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The New Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following Address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
