What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
Jul 18th 2014, 6:17 pm
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
Jam jars, ketchup, well all the condiments going in the fridge. I don't remember doing that in the UK...anyone else do the same? Why?
Oh and ziplock bags over here, saving the clean ones that veg were put in, to seal up off cuts of meat before chucking those in the bin to help reduce the smell. We don't have rubbish pick up and don't fill a big bin weekly so takes a few weeks to make a dump run worth it.
No ugly net curtains to keep the weirdo's from prying either...but then we keep the curtains closed in the living room to keep the place cooler anyway so not needed...plus ugly, Venetian blinds that are everywhere.
Oh and a garage never being used to store a car, but for all kinds of crap, made worse when moving garden stuff in over winter
Oh and ziplock bags over here, saving the clean ones that veg were put in, to seal up off cuts of meat before chucking those in the bin to help reduce the smell. We don't have rubbish pick up and don't fill a big bin weekly so takes a few weeks to make a dump run worth it.
No ugly net curtains to keep the weirdo's from prying either...but then we keep the curtains closed in the living room to keep the place cooler anyway so not needed...plus ugly, Venetian blinds that are everywhere.
Oh and a garage never being used to store a car, but for all kinds of crap, made worse when moving garden stuff in over winter
Then I have three "full size" tool boxes of various hand tools, plus a 12" mitre saw, small table(top) saw, a sander, a drill press, and a hand held wood plane, a drill, a deck screwdriver, and a plasterboard screwdriver. Then I have a compressor and finish nailer, a staple gun, and a flooring nailer. Then I have a bunch of garden tools: two garden rakes, two leaf rakes, two forks, a square-edge spade, 3-4 long handled American spades, two square shovels, a pick axe, a full size axe, a ditch hook (a giant billhook on a long handle), a ditch (very narrow) spade, a hand tamper, five bow saws, and perhaps my favourite the "garden dragon" (a propane weed burner).
Pretty much all of the above are either used regularly, and/or were purchased for one or more specific tasks when they more than paid for themselves, in time or contractors' fees saved. Still they take up a good amount of room.
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Jul 18th 2014, 6:27 pm
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
All of the above. ..... But collecting tools and equipment generally has taken more room than I would ever imaged possible. I believe I have nine functioning appliances than have petrol engines (three mowers, a generator, a chipper, a tiller, a chain saw, a blower, and a strimmer), plus another mower that I intend to get a new engine for, and a hand-held blower plus two strimmers that are non functioning but I haven't bothered to get them down from the rafters in the shed.
Then I have three "full size" tool boxes of various hand tools, plus a 12" mitre saw, small table(top) saw, a sander, a drill press, and a hand held wood plane, a drill, a deck screwdriver, and a plasterboard screwdriver. Then I have a compressor and finish nailer, a staple gun, and a flooring nailer. Then I have a bunch of garden tools two garden rakes, two leaf rakes, two forks, a square-edge spade, 3-4 long handled American spades, two square shovels, a pick axe, a full size axe, a ditch hook (a giant billhook on a long handle), a ditch (very narrow) spade, a hand tamper, five bow saws, and perhaps my favourite the "garden dragon" (a propane weed burner).
Pretty much all of the above are either used regularly, and/or were purchased for one or more specific tasks when they more than paid for themselves, in time or contractors' fees saved. Still they take up a good amount of room.
Then I have three "full size" tool boxes of various hand tools, plus a 12" mitre saw, small table(top) saw, a sander, a drill press, and a hand held wood plane, a drill, a deck screwdriver, and a plasterboard screwdriver. Then I have a compressor and finish nailer, a staple gun, and a flooring nailer. Then I have a bunch of garden tools two garden rakes, two leaf rakes, two forks, a square-edge spade, 3-4 long handled American spades, two square shovels, a pick axe, a full size axe, a ditch hook (a giant billhook on a long handle), a ditch (very narrow) spade, a hand tamper, five bow saws, and perhaps my favourite the "garden dragon" (a propane weed burner).
Pretty much all of the above are either used regularly, and/or were purchased for one or more specific tasks when they more than paid for themselves, in time or contractors' fees saved. Still they take up a good amount of room.
Add in a manual hardwood floor nailer, an electric hardwood floor nailer and a compressor and I'd swear you were my husband.
Jul 18th 2014, 6:38 pm
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
You missed the compressor, it's in there, ahead of the air tools.
.... I could find nothing to recommend a manual or electric floor nailer, so I went straight for the pneumatic one. 
I also missed out the angle grinder and the router I have, and two pairs of PEX plumbing crimps, a blow torch, and two pairs of bolt cutters. And two cat/racoon sized live traps.
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Jul 18th 2014, 6:41 pm
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
"What odd things have you started doing since moving here?"
Drinking watery american lite beer. Daily.
As per Pulaski - I have a large collection of gasoline powered machines.
Not taking 28 days paid holiday a year
Drinking watery american lite beer. Daily.
As per Pulaski - I have a large collection of gasoline powered machines.
Not taking 28 days paid holiday a year
Jul 18th 2014, 6:43 pm
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
You missed the compressor, it's in there, ahead of the air tools.
.... I could find nothing to recommend a manual or electric floor nailer, so I went straight for the pneumatic one. I also missed out the angle grinder I have, and two pairs of PEX plumbing crimps, a blow torch, and two pairs of bolt cutters.
My bad...yes it was a pneumatic floor nailer...but what do I know? I bet your favourite haunts are stores such as Home Depot and Lowes.
Jul 18th 2014, 6:50 pm
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Re: What odd things have you started doing since moving here?
I thought that was just my wife! She ****** zip locks everything!! And makes me do the same!
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Jul 18th 2014, 6:57 pm
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Last week I went into seven different Lowes, three of them twice. This week I have only been into three different Lowes, so far, and only one of them twice, but there's still this evening and tomorrow.
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Jul 18th 2014, 6:57 pm
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Jul 18th 2014, 7:03 pm
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On that basis, nationwide there must surely be well over 1,000?
Jul 18th 2014, 7:06 pm
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They are cheaper though....unless you're a hipster, then Pabst is starting to get expensive again
Jul 18th 2014, 7:41 pm
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Jul 18th 2014, 8:00 pm
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Jul 18th 2014, 8:34 pm
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