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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 13, 2019 9:59:27 GMT
I've a few bits n bobs but not much. The prices it would fetch means I'd rather hang onto it. Even if it sits in the loft. Unused. For years. One of the prompts for me was seeing what was being given away on Freecycle. I've grabbed a few items myself. I give back as well now The trailer was one of those things that was too useful to give away but I hadn't used it since moving all my gear back from work and that could have gone in the car in more journeys. Not much before that. It was also taking space in the open garage. The trailer is wanted for one job and it could be back on Freecycle soon  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 13, 2019 10:01:27 GMT
That's 'Proper' What most of us have is loads of stuff in cupboards, spare rooms and/or lofts |
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Post by petea on Feb 13, 2019 10:48:25 GMT
I had to buy the cabinets, the loft and cupboards were already full!  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 13, 2019 14:14:43 GMT
Another light came on for me when I discovered we didn't have enough storage here.
Some while later I started looking at what we stored. Stuff we don't use (in the main)
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 24, 2019 10:54:15 GMT
Bit depressing to find more and more stuff to move out even as other stuff goes
Due to years of packing stuff in rather well I suspect.
So much stuff
Wonder if it is in my subconscious....
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Post by petea on Feb 24, 2019 16:57:48 GMT
I guess you'd need a 'shrink' to help with that though! |
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Post by MikeMusic on Feb 24, 2019 18:56:27 GMT
One bite at a time
Lots of bites to come !
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 2, 2019 12:09:50 GMT
With the trailer gone and long enough shuffling stuff around......
My car is in the garage ! (just)
Freecycle will have a few items from me
A guy wanting wood to upcycle will hopefully be in touch soon
Furniture shuffling gives me storage where I need it and frees up space where we don't.
Looks good in both places too
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 17, 2019 12:01:15 GMT
Saw a plea on Freecycle for a bike for a son who's bike had been stolen. Emailed and offered the boss's old bike. What a lovely bloke I am Agreed collection Didn't turn up Offered on Freecycle. many replies Gone Confess I was appalled at the state of it. Much rust, tyres possibly shot. One inner tube missing, other wouldn't inflate. Very heavy MTB style. Feels like a 'win' each time something goes to what one hopes is a good home Must move more |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 18, 2019 17:02:49 GMT
Placed more yesterday on Freecycle
6 damned uncomfortable stacking chairs collected just now. Think I got them free or dead cheap in the early days of my company when anything to sit on was good.
While he was here he took 3 other chairs I cannot see us ever using
Another win or is that 3 ?
All will be upcycled.
The guy collecting told me he grabbed the wood that was being skipped from a science classroom and made £3000 on Ebay.
TV aerial and a solid Ikea cabinet no replies yet
More stuff becomes visible presenting itself for a decision
Can now get the car to the end of the garage !
Next target is a walkway through stuff rather than climbing over it
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 24, 2019 11:17:43 GMT
Thinking about what we have around the house, the garage and the sheds.
A lot.
Hard to believe we collected all this stuff.
Stop whinging and get on with it mate !
Mutter, mutter
TV aerial gone.
Installed by a hopeless bloke when the house was refurbed. A local aerial guy sorted us out, re using the *old* aerial which worked better !
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Post by Barrington on Mar 27, 2019 9:38:14 GMT
My early life is to blame due to shortage of money. Anything that seems remotely useful is (was) kept. That's my story. I appear to be a bit of a hoarder. This is a common reason , I know a few people who have said the same thing when I have asked why they are keeping a particular piece of rubbish . I was neither a hoarder or a compulsive declutterer but I am close to the latter these days and I put it down to Kaizen . I worked all my life in a car factory on the maintenance when the Japanese system of Just in Time (Kaizen) was introduced the knock-on effect to the maintenance was to tidy things and as we weren't always very busy some of us took it on board more than others . So now retired I am a Kaizen disciple about the house and garden , it does take time but you have to be ruthless and get a skip  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 27, 2019 10:17:09 GMT
My early life is to blame due to shortage of money. Anything that seems remotely useful is (was) kept. That's my story. I appear to be a bit of a hoarder. This is a common reason , I know a few people who have said the same thing when I have asked why they are keeping a particular piece of rubbish . I was neither a hoarder or a compulsive declutterer but I am close to the latter these days and I put it down to Kaizen . I worked all my life in a car factory on the maintenance when the Japanese system of Just in Time (Kaizen) was introduced the knock-on effect to the maintenance was to tidy things and as we weren't always very busy some of us took it on board more than others . So now retired I am a Kaizen disciple about the house and garden , it does take time but you have to be ruthless and get a skip We have a bit in common, maybe more. I discovered W.Edwards Deming in the 90s and put as much of his philosophy into my company. As you probably know Kaizen is part of that. Home was different Ebay is also to blame - for all sorts of stuff going cheap |
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Post by Barrington on Mar 27, 2019 11:19:33 GMT
This is a common reason , I know a few people who have said the same thing when I have asked why they are keeping a particular piece of rubbish . I was neither a hoarder or a compulsive declutterer but I am close to the latter these days and I put it down to Kaizen . I worked all my life in a car factory on the maintenance when the Japanese system of Just in Time (Kaizen) was introduced the knock-on effect to the maintenance was to tidy things and as we weren't always very busy some of us took it on board more than others . So now retired I am a Kaizen disciple about the house and garden , it does take time but you have to be ruthless and get a skip Ebay is also to blame - for all sorts of stuff going cheap Oh yes ebay especially after a few vinos  |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 27, 2019 12:30:05 GMT
NEC taught me Kaizen and Xerox taught me lots about Deming, process efficiency and constant improvement.
I try to run a lot of my life that way.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 27, 2019 16:32:03 GMT
I had such a hard job trying to get the guys to go with Kaizen and the other good stuff. Just about saw me off. Management books talk about how the poor punters and middle management struggled with senior management to make it happen. To me it was as obvious as a bang on the head. Set me up nicely to talk to people about mains cables and the like |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 27, 2019 16:44:46 GMT
I struggle constantly with process efficiency and logic at my place of work. They appear to manage by emotion and constantly make the wrong decisions because the right ones are harder to implement.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 27, 2019 16:55:39 GMT
I struggle constantly with process efficiency and logic at my place of work. They appear to manage by emotion and constantly make the wrong decisions because the right ones are harder to implement. Twas ever thus. Correct set up never gets the kudos it deserves as fire fighting is so much more romantic and shows what heroes they are -for problems they made themselves. I laboured for months for the guys to get 'it' so they could come up with the ideas themselves NO chance Eventually I directed where to move kit for a much smoother workflow - and less work for them. Cut a major, intensive process from a minimum of 144 steps to 33. Made life so much easier. Everyone could see where work was and what was next. Beat having it stashed all over the bloody place and occasionally having to search or even work out where a job was. It was such a struggle we never even got to removing items we weren't using. They were pushed out to the sides Read a report that 60% of what goes on in large organisations is waste. Found that difficult to swallow until I worked out the stupidities and wastage I had with as few a 5 people working for me. One classic We had a load of work at the back of the factory in boxes. Needed to bring it to the front for despatch. Say 20-30 boxes of around 10-15 kilos each We had wheeled industrial trolleys of various types, available. A pallet truck and pallets, available. Two of the guys were picking up the boxes and walking them the length of the factory. "I don't mind" they said when I asked why Told them I did mind and to use the kit we have |
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Post by MikeMusic on May 24, 2019 10:54:37 GMT
The odd item has been sold and given away on Freecycle and to visitors.
More will have to be binned as doing the 'right thing' is taking too much time.
Large stock of cardboard boxes being saved to ship stuff are being recycled instead. There are always more coming
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Post by MartinT on May 24, 2019 11:42:18 GMT
We've been selling furniture on gumtree. The number of people wanting an item and promising to come but being no-shows is astonishing.
It's a revelation when someone comes, pays the money without further bargaining, and brings transport so that the items actually fit in.
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