Gentlemen and Ladies - what did you do with your shed/garage full of tools/DIY stuff?
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Gentlemen and Ladies - what did you do with your shed/garage full of tools/DIY stuff?
So I am in the process of visa application and while I am not doing much until I get official confirmation etc I am getting shipping companies lined up for quotes etc.
But I have no idea what to do with the contents of my garage. I have years of accumulated tools and other diy materials. I will have to sell most of the electrical stuff (sanders, saws etc) at a loss, I am thinking of bringing my dewalt drills with me and just buying the charger in the US. But I want to know what others did? Did you bring your tools? Did you just sell them on?
I have some very expensive tools and some very cheap tools but due to weight and time constraints I am going to have to sell as a job lot on either eBay or gumtree.
Never mind just tools it's the idea of selling so much stuff on eBay that is just soul destroying. We have way too much crap.
But I have no idea what to do with the contents of my garage. I have years of accumulated tools and other diy materials. I will have to sell most of the electrical stuff (sanders, saws etc) at a loss, I am thinking of bringing my dewalt drills with me and just buying the charger in the US. But I want to know what others did? Did you bring your tools? Did you just sell them on?
I have some very expensive tools and some very cheap tools but due to weight and time constraints I am going to have to sell as a job lot on either eBay or gumtree.
Never mind just tools it's the idea of selling so much stuff on eBay that is just soul destroying. We have way too much crap.
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Re: Gentlemen and Ladies - what did you do with your shed/garage full of tools/DIY st
So I am in the process of visa application and while I am not doing much until I get official confirmation etc I am getting shipping companies lined up for quotes etc.
But I have no idea what to do with the contents of my garage. I have years of accumulated tools and other diy materials. I will have to sell most of the electrical stuff (sanders, saws etc) at a loss, I am thinking of bringing my dewalt drills with me and just buying the charger in the US. But I want to know what others did? Did you bring your tools? Did you just sell them on?
I have some very expensive tools and some very cheap tools but due to weight and time constraints I am going to have to sell as a job lot on either eBay or gumtree.
Never mind just tools it's the idea of selling so much stuff on eBay that is just soul destroying. We have way too much crap.
But I have no idea what to do with the contents of my garage. I have years of accumulated tools and other diy materials. I will have to sell most of the electrical stuff (sanders, saws etc) at a loss, I am thinking of bringing my dewalt drills with me and just buying the charger in the US. But I want to know what others did? Did you bring your tools? Did you just sell them on?
I have some very expensive tools and some very cheap tools but due to weight and time constraints I am going to have to sell as a job lot on either eBay or gumtree.
Never mind just tools it's the idea of selling so much stuff on eBay that is just soul destroying. We have way too much crap.
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Re: Gentlemen and Ladies - what did you do with your shed/garage full of tools/DIY st
Ok. I can pack up all the non electrical tools
We will probably end up with a full container at this stage now anyway.
We will probably end up with a full container at this stage now anyway.
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Yep, we had a 30ft container and as it was paid for by hubby's company we filled that bad boy to bursting. We did have a good clear out UK end but ended up throwing quite a lot away over here while we were unpacking too! Of course we have managed to accumulate all that crap all over again in the past 6 years. I remember moving in and thinking "look at all the kitchen cabinets, I'll never fill them all", oopsies
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Re: Gentlemen and Ladies - what did you do with your shed/garage full of tools/DIY st
We're going through the same process - car boot sales seem to have become my new Sunday morning pastime ! How much of a 4 bedroomed house will a 20ft container take? Finding it hard to visualise!
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We made a list with everything that wasn't coming with us. Either didn't want it anymore, wouldn't work over here, or wasn't allowed and sent it to friends and family. Everything went and I get a facebook msg every so often saying that my iron is knackered and they want a refund . We took all the non electric tools, gardening tools and sorted it out at this end, and then started a new collection of crap sorry I mean 'things that will be useful one day'...
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We left USA in 1979 to live in England, then returned to the US in 1991. As soon as we were settled in our rental in fall of 1991, my sister in law showed up with all the junk (i.e. useful kitchen appliances etc.) that we'd left with her twelve years before. And there's us thinking we could buy new!
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My inlaws downsized after my FIL retired by packing up what they wanted and leaving the house that Mrs P and I were also living in. Everything else in the house became ours, including a lawnmower, multiple garden tools (rakes, spades, axe, pickaxe, wheelbarrow, etc,), and all manner of other sundry housewares, camping supplies and equipment, and tools.
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On sale
http://www.amazon.com/Spear-Jackson-.../dp/B001IYQQO6
The hardware store ones here don't last at all.
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Might I recommend one of these. I have a similar one of the same brand that I have had for about 20 years that despite my size, strength, and enthuiasm, I have still not managed to damage it.
The fork, not you.
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Re: Gentlemen and Ladies - what did you do with your shed/garage full of tools/DIY st
Might I recommend one of these. I have a similar one of the same brand that I have had for about 20 years that despite my size, strength, and enthuiasm, I have still not managed to damage it.