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[rambo]

love them or hate them .....i was just thinking ihave not used me honda20i for ages now i am all power banked up.for years it never ever let me down been out in all weathers took it jobs with me.i no there noisey but i all ways off grid with it tucked well out way,thats all we had what seems not so long ago .....(borrowed pic}....i will keep hold of it for when the world go's mad max

 

[stewartwebr]

I have the same one in the garage back home along with a Honda EX350. I really need to get into the garage at some point and start shifting some of the items in there. To be honest I have no idea what’s there other than almost 30 years of accumulated camping items

 

[andyelbac]

Not really a motorhome point but your comment about 30 years of accumulated camping equipment in your garage got me thinking about our shed. When we moved in 11 years ago the previous owner had a purpose built shed at the bottom of the garden that he used to run a one man joinery company from. Steel framed, metal clad with a timber clad front, powered and 25'x18'. it was empty when we moved in and was so spacious we bought a full sized table tennis table to play on in it. Fast forward 11 years and there's hardly room to swing a cat. The table tennis table was donated to the local school some years ago because it had been so long since we had room to open it. I now get goose bumps at even the thought of moving and having to decide what to dump, what to take and what to try and sale. Either way I would be having to plan at least six months ahead of any move! The rapidly redundant items (mostly crap) we accumulate in the modern age?!

 

[stewartwebr]

Not really a motorhome point but your comment about 30 years of accumulated camping equipment in your garage got me thinking about our shed. When we moved in 11 years ago the previous owner had a purpose built shed at the bottom of the garden that he used to run a one man joinery company from. Steel framed, metal clad with a timber clad front, powered and 25'x18'. it was empty when we moved in and was so spacious we bought a full sized table tennis table to play on in it. Fast forward 11 years and there's hardly room to swing a cat. The table tennis table was donated to the local school some years ago because it had been so long since we had room to open it. I now get goose bumps at even the thought of moving and having to decide what to dump, what to take and what to try and sale. Either way I would be having to plan at least six months ahead of any move! The rapidly redundant items (mostly crap) we accumulate in the modern age?!

Don’t get me started, last time I looked I pulled out a flat screen TV which must have been state of the art at the time but looks so dated now being about 10 inches thick. I hate to think what’s in there including a car that was put in there 15 years ago and has never moved since, but that’s another story and nothing fancy. A Nissan Figaro the other half fell in love with then fell out of love with just as quickly.

 

[carolyn]

When we had building work for our lovely kitchen which started 2 years ago yesterday funnily enough it involved knocking a wall down all the way up through two bedrooms into the loft. Simon our builder and his son Benj emptied the loft for us. Simon was a junior builder when we moved in.

There was a cot, a moses basket, a travel cot, loads of “special” clothes, baptism shawls! As well as obsolete electrical devises, old suitcases, empty cardboard boxes (in case items went wrong under warranty) haha. Embarrasing as Simon is our local volunteer firechief as well!

Our baby is 28 and we’ve got no grandchildren yet, there’s no way this stuff would pass modern safety checks so off it went down the tip! Well not the shawls and a couple of the teeny tiny things, I’m not really a heartless old witch

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[enark]

Wouldnt be without the trusty Honda.

Regarding storage, we moved three years ago when we gave up farming, so needed some storage. House we liked has a triple garage, which i can barely get into. Kids kit car, motorbikes, furniture etc etc thankfully still got a barn with tractors and machinery in!! (And more furniture). Not sure what the covenants would say about a nice greenJohn Deeres….or a muck spreader…

 

[Graydo]

love them or hate them .....i was just thinking ihave not used me honda20i for ages now i am all power banked up.for years it never ever let me down been out in all weathers took it jobs with me.i no there noisey but i all ways off grid with it tucked well out way,thats all we had what seems not so long ago .....(borrowed pic}....i will keep hold of it for when the world go's mad max



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Next week at this rate,
keep it topped up.

Graydo

 

[eddie]

My Mother In Law keeps resisting throwing anything away, as she watches daytime TV and apparently there’s a programme on where some bird takes crap off of people at the tip and after a good clean and lick on paint makes hundreds of pounds

Personally with too much storage and a lifetime of motorboats and motorhomes, running Van Bitz the motorhome security company and owning a campsite, I have also got so much “stuff”

Eve (MIL) lives in the cottage attached to our farmhouse, not only thinks all her stuff is worth a fortune but doesn’t understand why we are doing “tip runs” slowly whittling down stuff.

“You could sell that!”

Now here’s the rub! Our builder friend lives in the middle of nowhere, he bought himself a new motorcycle, a scramble bike, and decided to sell one of his old ones. Advertised of Gumtree and Facebook two blokes make contact, arranged to view, got directions to middle of nowhere, next day, garage door smashed, three scramble bikes stolen along with a loads of other valuable stuff.

Many many other examples of similar, not proven, but how on earth would they know it’s there type crimes?

So, as I make inroads into, and travel back in time through the layers, year by year of buying stuff at shows I didn’t need, or, the “Soft Furnishings Manageress” advising me that stuff “doesn’t match” I come across past favourites.

Ah, my old camping chairs “these may be worth” a tenner each! but after a couple of pictures on the family WhatsApp group, where at least one of my four Sons will want them, but then is immediately countermanded by one of my four DIL’s “ No room for any more of Ed’s shit thank you”

I know I should sell stuff, but, with the thought of theft being a real issue, me retiring early as I couldn’t put up with idiots and rudeness any longer it’s not worth the trouble “No, it’s a set of four, I won’t sell three” “No, you can’t view them Sunday morning at 07:00” No I won’t deliver them to Essex” “No, I won’t hold them four Six weeks” “No, I won’t meet you halfway at Bristol”

So, instead having failed the WhatsApp test, they go in the back of the LandCruiser along with other various out of favour items and get driven to the tip, with me like Gollum arguing with myself, about my “Precious things” I’m getting rid of.

Once at the tip, and the tailgate opened, the Totters are there like fleas on a dog, being extremely friendly and helpful ensuring very little actually gets chucked in the bins, redirecting it the their ‘special place’ I remark that they’re not so pleased to see me or helpful when I’ve got bags of garden waste and they at least have the decency to look slightly embarrassed

Still job done, latest batch of rediscovered stuff gone, a feeling of achievement, slight euphoria and satisfaction replaces the nagging guilt of throwing stuff away rather than trying rehome it ( blame the DIL) (it was easy to coerce the boys till “they came along )

So space reacquired, just have to explain to MIL that to us “time” is our most valuable commodity. Messing about all weekend trying to flog a twenty quid fold up table, to potentially Brad Pitt’s Somerset Cousin, the one from the film “Snatch” or some “div” who after being three hours late, only brought a Tenner ( and her kids have eaten more than that in chocolate biscuits and cake) simply isn’t worth it

Sounds far fetched? It is to anyone whose not tried to sell anything

AshVanBitz Trying to sell a rabbit hutch, nice hutch, cost loads, professionally built, offered for quick sale £30 to get it gone. Some one has ask to pay a Tenner deposit and asked that Ash keeps it for a Month, “Oh and the advert states you’ll need a van” so can you deliver it please?

It soon becomes tempting as a candidate for those early Spring fire pit warmed BBQ’s lol

ps. When I said early retirement due to idiots and rudeness, if you were a Van Bitz customer please don’t take offence at this, it wasn’t aimed at anyone that wasn’t an idiot or rude

 

[oldiesontour]

I've got a never used suitcase in the van take it out once a year check it over put it back,now thinking maybe time to leave it at home with 640ah lithium ,640 w solar ,100amp mains and 50 a B2B can't see me ever needing it in the van.Will keep it at home just to keep heating freezers and lights on in case.
Ref clearing out Before we moved 2 yrs ago I had 2 ..75' x 25' sheds plus a few smaller ones and one big enough to work on the PVC.all full of "stuff" 10 early land rovers ,a bond bug, triumph stag etc,loads of spares,tools, equipment for vehicles and building work,4 post ramp etc got rid of literally tons of steel,spares and 99% of the kit and " that'll come in useful one day" . Hardly a week goes by without me thinking If only I hadn't got rid of that.Still got things like 20t press,big compressor, tyre changer,pipe flare kits,clutch align kits,2 mig welders etc that I doubt I'll ever use.Next move is to bring a new 9kw generator and other stuff home from Spain before we sell the property...
I keep telling SWMBO how lucky she is I'm getting rid of it all so she won't have to when I select horizontal.

 

[rambo]

Next week at this rate,
keep it topped up.

Graydo

good on ya plug her in and let her rip.this is the thing with out hook up this time of year enventually you will need solar and that aint happening soon