Yeh - could also be a case of being a cheap a** bastid.

I recently have gotten better at telling myself "just throw it away," even
though it irks me.  Just last weekend I took a truckload of stuff to the
landfill and tossed it.  At a certain point, I realized I have been lugging
this stuff around from house to house or just tripping over it in the
current shop or garage, periodically rearranging it to try to make more
space, etc.  I realize that it's stupid - I'm keeping all this crap I never
will have any use for and neither will anyone else.

I have this mental block for things that *might* be useful *someday* in
certain circumstances.  Can't bring myself to throw out a "perfectly good"
[insert identity of item here].  And that mentality has indeed come in handy
on occasion - I have sometimes happened to have just the right little bit of
this or that for a task at hand.  But for the most part, it's just *stuff*
consuming valuable space, time and energy.  I still have some more scraps I
probably should ditch.  There is a limit, even to my pack-rat-ness.

- Bill T.
- Hi, my name is Bill and I'm a pack rat.

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[mailto:oldtools-bounces@r...] On Behalf Of SHINE, STEPHEN
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Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:38 AM
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Subject: RE: [OldTools] intro & shop question

Bill said:
> My scrap wood  "assortment" would fill about 6 to 10 of those.

I thought the very same thing as soon as I saw the schematic, but
perhaps I'm just a packrat.  Go figger.

At a flea market the other week, a seller was unloading boxes from an
estate sale and discovered one full of cutoffs from ... get this ...
particle board.  The biggest was maybe 6"x8".  I mean, I'm *bad*, but
that's just silly.  Is this the difference between "collecting" and
"hoarding"?

Steve, in Howell NJ
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