[AT] Cleaning the shop (or not)

[Gunnells, Bradley R]

My wife just says she's going to have one hell of an auction.  :-)

So maybe I'm saving up for her future without me? Hahaha…I better not tell her that or my time here may be shortened!

Brad

On Mar 11, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Charlie V <1cdevill at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like more buildings, but I know that in time they would be as
> crammed full as the ones I currently have.  I too am afflicted with the "I
> might need that for something some day" disease.  I am going to have to
> loosen up a bit.  If I leave everything to someone else after I am gone, it
> is sure that a lot of the really good tools will go at a yard sale for a
> couple of bucks and the rest will go in a dumpster.  Even children often do
> not have the same perspective as we do.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Gunnells, Bradley R <
> brad-gunnells at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> 
>> That is exactly my problem. My family tells me to toss things. But they
>> never seem to complain when I have "just the ticket" for fixing something
>> for them.  :-)
>> 
>> If I just had more buildings and more time to work in them I'd be set.
>> 
>> Brad
>> 
>> On Mar 11, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3/11/2014 5:20 AM, Don Bowen wrote:
>>>> On 3/10/2014 8:20 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
>>>>>  It is such a mess I don't know where to start (a lot of people say
>>>>> start at the beginning) but I'm not sure where that is.
>>>> I start at any door.  If something in front of me does not belong there
>>>> it gets moved.  If junk it goes out the door, otherwise it gets put
>>>> where it belongs.  I then just work down the line.  When done everything
>>>> is (mostly) where it belongs and the pile out front is gotten rid of.
>>>> 
>>> My problem is that I don't know what is really worthless junk to throw
>>> away and what it a possible valuable item I might need to use in another
>>> patch up job. In 40+ years of patching up old machinery with pieces of
>>> junk that i have saved, I now am afraid to throw anything away for fear
>>> that I will need it next week/year , etc.
>>> 
>>> Ralph in Sask.
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