Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
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Jun 16, 2024 - 8:57pm
thisbody wrote:
You seem to be a lucky guy, Kurt. With your dad, the tool-shop and all..
My dad taught me how to fit a toy-shop as well - and I still miss it ever-after computers appeared. But what the heck - the Ole Man was invincible. Remember?
We all are (sometimes different) parts of nature.
Some think, they can be "smart" and become rich.
Usually, they're unaware of our fleeting-ness of breathing from within this body.
Inhale...
Exhale...
Lucky and blessed as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks.
My dad had a tendency to keep things.
His garages were always full of stuff. One car always fit though... my moms.
Because of that... I keep my garages pretty clean and organized.
Not a hoarder. I just hang on to my things.
You seem to be a lucky guy, Kurt. With your dad, the tool-shop and all..
My dad taught me how to fit a toy-shop as well - and I still miss it ever-after computers appeared. But what the heck - the Ole Man was invincible. Remember?
We all are (sometimes different) parts of nature.
Some think, they can be "smart" and become rich.
Usually, they're unaware of our fleeting-ness of breathing from within this body.
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
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Jun 11, 2024 - 3:44pm
GeneP59 wrote:
Iâm going through this with the continuation of my downsizing/death cleaning of clothing in my upstairs unused small bedroom. I hate throwing out perfectly gentility used clothing that no longer fit me (maybe 30 years ago they did). At least they will be sent to a recycling facility where some go to rags and others go to reuse.
Much of this was instilled in me by my parents who grew up in the Depression and live as a thrifty New Englander. I too have been scared and thatâs why itâs so hard to part with anything.
But Iâm not a hoarder!
My dad had a tendency to keep things.
His garages were always full of stuff. One car always fit though... my moms.
Because of that... I keep my garages pretty clean and organized.
Not a hoarder. I just hang on to my things.
I think I mentioned this before someplace here...
My parents damaged me for life.
They told me to "take care of my things because they're expensive to replace."
So... I must take care of my things.
Plus my dad was a product of The Great Depression. "Do not waste a thing!"
I don't eat the gristle/ fat/ cartilage or any stuff like that off of meat/ chicken like he did.
My Dad used to eat lard on his bread instead of butter but growing up I never saw him do that as he had become somewhat of a self-made gourmet by then. A bit of a foodie so to speak.
Location: On the edge of tomorrow looking back at yesterday. Gender:
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Jun 10, 2024 - 8:36am
KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
I think I mentioned this before someplace here...
My parents damaged me for life.
They told me to "take care of my things because they're expensive to replace."
So... I must take care of my things.
Plus my dad was a product of The Great Depression. "Do not waste a thing!"
I don't eat the gristle/ fat/ cartilage or any stuff like that off of meat/ chicken like he did.
Iâm going through this with the continuation of my downsizing/death cleaning of clothing in my upstairs unused small bedroom. I hate throwing out perfectly gentility used clothing that no longer fit me (maybe 30 years ago they did). At least they will be sent to a recycling facility where some go to rags and others go to reuse.
Much of this was instilled in me by my parents who grew up in the Depression and live as a thrifty New Englander. I too have been scared and thatâs why itâs so hard to part with anything.
I think I mentioned this before someplace here...
My parents damaged me for life.
They told me to "take care of my things because they're expensive to replace."
So... I must take care of my things.
Plus my dad was a product of The Great Depression. "Do not waste a thing!"
I don't eat the gristle/ fat/ cartilage or any stuff like that off of meat/ chicken like he did.
My parents were only children during the Great Depression and easily adopted their parents' conservative ways.Their parents were pretty thrifty before that crisis so the whole ethos of Save, Conserve, Reduce, Re-use went into overdrive during the 30s. My Swiss grandmother would Re-use ice cubes just because. She had drawers full off used envelopes as scrap paper.
Just today my family had a long laugh over a K-cup style cocktail machine and an electric s'mores maker. A fool and his money...
I think I mentioned this before someplace here...
My parents damaged me for life.
They told me to "take care of my things because they're expensive to replace."
So... I must take care of my things.
Plus my dad was a product of The Great Depression. "Do not waste a thing!"
I don't eat the gristle/ fat/ cartilage or any stuff like that off of meat/ chicken like he did.
So was my mom. She was the first environmentalist I ever knew. If it could be recycled, then by god, RECYCLE IT.
Location: Really deep in the heart of South California Gender:
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Jun 8, 2024 - 8:53pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
lol "looking pretty rough" probably doesn't mean the same thing in our house. #gorillatape
I think I mentioned this before someplace here...
My parents damaged me for life.
They told me to "take care of my things because they're expensive to replace."
So... I must take care of my things.
Plus my dad was a product of The Great Depression. "Do not waste a thing!"
I don't eat the gristle/ fat/ cartilage or any stuff like that off of meat/ chicken like he did.
Location: On the edge of tomorrow looking back at yesterday. Gender:
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Jan 11, 2024 - 7:51am
kurtster wrote:
Been there since 2016. It's my other presence here on the web. Been logging my stuff and selling off my collection since about 2017, trying to sell more than I buy ...
You need to go over and log in to recover your password. There has been a whole boatload of idle accounts hacked and hijacked by scammers who have opened up accounts to sell records that do not exist to make a real long story short.
This reminds me of your interest you expressed in getting a turntable in the make me a stereo thread. I have a mea culpa to post about that which I need to finish and put up. I started it back then but life has been complicated. Time to dig it out and finish it.
Yes I did login over there. I was thinking of offloading what I have collected sometime in the future. I started looking at the site back in 2017 but joined July 1, 2018. Another to do list for me.
Actually did. Just got off the phone with a writer from Billboard. Did an interview about things going on over at Discogs. Hope it doesn't bite me in the ass. It is crazy over there. If it goes through it is supposed to be out in the next couple of weeks. I turned him on to the word enshittification which was recently applied to things going on over there. Got a chuckle.
I don’t know you were affiliated with discogs. I just went to log in over ether and forgot my PW. The last time I bought something was back in 2019?
Been there since 2016. It's my other presence here on the web. Been logging my stuff and selling off my collection since about 2017, trying to sell more than I buy ...
You need to go over and log in to recover your password. There has been a whole boatload of idle accounts hacked and hijacked by scammers who have opened up accounts to sell records that do not exist to make a real long story short.
This reminds me of your interest you expressed in getting a turntable in the make me a stereo thread. I have a mea culpa to post about that which I need to finish and put up. I started it back then but life has been complicated. Time to dig it out and finish it.
Location: On the edge of tomorrow looking back at yesterday. Gender:
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Jan 10, 2024 - 10:15am
kurtster wrote:
Actually did. Just got off the phone with a writer from Billboard. Did an interview about things going on over at Discogs. Hope it doesn't bite me in the ass. It is crazy over there. If it goes through it is supposed to be out in the next couple of weeks. I turned him on to the word enshittification which was recently applied to things going on over there. Got a chuckle.
I donât know you were affiliated with discogs. I just went to log in over ether and forgot my PW.
The last time I bought something was back in 2019?
