I think it's a guy thing.
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From: "Jim Tosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] I'm a pack-rat!
Hi chum,
I feel great after reading your post because it's good to know there's
someone else as crazy as me.
Jim Tosh.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: [BlindHandyMan] I'm a pack-rat!
>
> 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
>
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