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Bulgarianlily

Joined: 01 Jun 2008
Posts: 1667
Location: South West Mountains of Bulgaria

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 10 9:55 am Post subject:
I find the shiny drums from old dryers exciting. But that is enough confessions for one day!

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 10 9:56 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

Midland Spinner wrote:

Someone please stop me if I get to that stage

There is apparently a recognised mental illness of excessive hoarding.

My OH used to work for a London Borough and several times was given the task of helping the environmental health team with sorting out council accommodation that had been occupied by someone with this problem. On one occassion they had to clear out a property that an elderly gentleman had been living in for years. His daily routine was to go out and scavenge items for bins, take them back, wrap them individually in newspaper and store them away. He'd been doing this for years. Every room in the house was full from floor to ceiling. He was living and sleeping in an armchair in his hallway with a camp stove to cook on and a bucket as a toilet.

Erikht

Joined: 08 Feb 2005
Posts: 3358

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 10 10:39 am Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

There is apparently a recognised mental illness of excessive hoarding. Really bad cases won't even throw away their own bodily fluids.

If I ever took up tanning, those would be useful.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 10 12:30 pm Post subject:

Erikht wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

There is apparently a recognised mental illness of excessive hoarding. Really bad cases won't even throw away their own bodily fluids.

If I ever took up tanning, those would be useful.

But you'd stink - better to save up for a fortnight in Spain

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15453
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 10 1:18 pm Post subject:

Erikht wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

There is apparently a recognised mental illness of excessive hoarding. Really bad cases won't even throw away their own bodily fluids.

If I ever took up tanning, those would be useful.

Yes, but saving it up just in case is going a bit far I think.
If supplies are that much of a problem, team up with a porta-loo firm.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 10 10:16 pm Post subject:
We had to mend a tumble drier today, using bits from another one.The glass door panel makes a very good bowl

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 10 10:53 pm Post subject:
Brass .357 magnum cases which are reloaded many time before being recycled as scrap and recovered lead from the back stop made into new bullets.

bodrighy

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 2159
Location: Near Devizes

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 10 11:55 pm Post subject:

We hang our washed bags on a cord on the back door. We use shreddded paper for packaging along with scrounged bubble wrap and I make my own boxes from old ones cut down to size. Centres from paper towels etc are useful for packaging things like crochet hooks etc. My main problem is wood. We have a wood burner but every timne we get any wood I am there with a serious problem, sorting out what is useful for turning and what is for burning. Now I have started making dolls furniture and miniatures it is a really big problem. Fortunately managed to acquire 2 calor gas heaters from Freecycle so don't need so much wood

Pete

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