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Hello there

I have a tendency to hoard things that I think may be usefull in the future. I can remember using a cologne when I was in my early teens and because it was in a pretty glass bottle I couldn't bare to put the empties in the bin. I used to squirrel them away in a space under the wardrobe. It just seemed wrong to put them in the bin. I can't remember what happened to them in the end, they didn't recycle glass then.

Anyway, since I've started getting into growing veg. I see use in everything, polysterine boxes as tubs, cardboard and plastic veg trays as seed tray and cloches when they've got plastic lids, etc. etc. I've even asked my neighbour to save me her loo rolls for parsnips. Do other grapes have these tendencies?

Kind regards
Tracey

In short, yup

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

Useful bits of wood, plastic compost sacks, lots of screws & nails......

I wish I could put some shelves up using the wood and sort the nails and screw into the jam jars....

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

I know I will always find use for the things that I save. The problem is remembering what I have saved.

Yes - I do.

I went and found myself a minimalist OH - so I come home some days and find that one or other of my collections has been relocated to the bins...Which as I work around the country and he works locally; happens quite alot. At the moment, it seems to be my future prize winning carrot/parsnip toilet roll innards that I am saving - which if I don't hide them somewhere disappear whilst I am out.

I don't even stand a chance trying to save yogurt pots - he just about lets me get away with *bucks frappacino containers; as they come with a little hat with a hole in it. Anything else just gets chucked. I also save everything I can that can be burnt as we have a wood burner, and he announced this evening that we had 'Enough' stockpiled - so I need to get a fire lit tonight so that we have an excuse to start saving it again.

Goodness knows what he's going to do when he sees what I have planned to chit my spuds - as soon as T&M get around to sending them to me - that's when the fun/struggle kicks in.

What do with these?

Yes, not only am I a re-cycleaholic I keep everything that could possibly be 'useful' for the lotties. I'm lucky in that OH is just as bad and can often see where something might be used which has totally passed me by.

I'm actually the opposite of a hoarder (due to smallish house with no attic space) but for veggie growing related stuffs, I'm going thru the same thing of seeing a use in most food packaging (pots, trays, punnets) and clear plastic cover that you can use as propagator that I can use for sowing seeds . I'm going nuts! Sorry I do recycle everything as I possibly can even big cardboard boxes for burning rather than putting in the bin.

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Food for Free

LOL!!! Lucky indeed.

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Manda.

"Wouldn't it be nice
For maybe an hour
To not have a care."

Well ..............

the gardening stockpile is kept in the shed and utility room ..........
the sailing stockpile is kept in the ....... anywhere you like (thats OH!)
the paper crafting stockpile is kept in son no. 1s old bedroom
the wood stockpile is kept in a 30ft above ground ex air raid shelter

and our sons wonder why we need a big house!

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Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
~ Mary Kay Ash

I can't hoard, try as I might, I can't - if it hasn't been used within six months it is sent on its way to someone else who may be able to use it. Snowdrop are you listening!

however, I do keep yogurt pots and food trays for seeds

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Suzie

Hands up - guilty as charged! I can't get into the shed for hoarded pots - I got some fantastic root trainers - hundreds, when I helped the local brownies planting wild flower plugs around the village. The flowers were raised by a local nursery that employs people with learning difficulties. They sold us the plants (discount for big order) and didn't want the things back. I asked everyone else helping - no-one wanted them. I now have a huge pile, oh boy do I feel smug! I also keep my preserving pan (except today when it's boiling away cooking my marmalde peel), all my gardening kit, my spare loo roll middles and my spare demijohns in there.
There's a blanket box in the corner of the dining room which had (note past tense) all my quilting stash. This has now seriously outgrown the box - big piles teeter on top and there is fabric and knitting wool in the storage drawers under our bed and the spare bed.

I daren't take up another hobby! When the kids had both left home we bought a bigger house!

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

www.vegheaven.blogspot.com

Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake)

Anyone remember Mr Trebas?

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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Hoarder, moi? Of course, always gardening stuff, because we have so many different size and thicknesses of plastic bottles here, they're all converted to mini cloches, really useful (potentially) bits of wood, the fencing the previous owner had thoughtfully put round the 'estate' which is now all out and will be recycled here or at chums .........

Goes with the recycling/organic/gardening philosophy I think.

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TonyF, Dordogne 24220

Heavily into re-cycling but also collect stuff I can use for the garden. I'm also a dollshouser and collect stuff that can be turned into things for dollshouses and room boxes.

Brian was also a hoarder - anything paper. We had a stack of old newspapers teetering just inside the front door which I wasn't allowed to chuck until he'd read them. I used to go through them and reduce the pile a bit from time to time by chucking out the bits I knew he didn't read and surrepticiously anything over 6 months old at the same time. He also had 10 years worth of computer magazines in the bedroom. He also saved all his computer printouts (he was a software engineer). The newspapers and magazines have now gone but his daughter won't let me chuck the printouts incase there's "something valuable" in them (there's not).

My daughter said it was typical of me to fall in love with another hoarder .

I have a conservatory that was built as a "temporary" structure to give us more kitchen space as ours is minute. It houses the washing machine, dryer and some kitchen cupboards. It also comes in handy for germinating seeds and for two years I grew my tomatoes, cucumbers and chillies in there.

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"I prefer rogues to imbeciles as they sometimes take a rest" (Alexander Dumas)

Me too,all the usual things--lav roll innards,plastic bottles,tubs of all shapes and sizes,feed sacks,wine and beer bottles. All come in handy eventually.

I think recycling and saving money go hand in hand with gardeners its in the genes. The late great Geoff Hamilton was one of the first on this bandwagen. He is so sadly missed.
One of the best.

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Regards
Lady Jana Muck

http://ladyjanamuck.blogspot.com/

Oh that reminds me I too hoard magazines. The mags that have the type that 'I think I will read again' like New Scientist, The Ecologist, RSH Garden magazines. I've got a hugh pile, but I've never read any of them more than once.

This is what I am hoarding at the moment:

• buttons, cut from old clothes (for putting on new clothes)
• loo rolls, for starting root veg
• 2l milk bottles, for posting plants in
• ditto 1l Coke bottles
• mushroom tubs, for standing loo rolls in
• newspapers, to shred for pet bedding
• old boxes, for pet bedding
• old stamps, to save the albatross
• unfranked stamps, to use again
• selvedges from fabric, to use as bias binding
• fabric scraps, to make into cushions
• jiffy bags, to reuse in the post
• plastic hummous tubs, to freeze dinners in
• ditto Chinese takeaway containers
• white icecream tubs to make into plant labels
• 4l milk bottles to use as cloches
• old growbags to reuse as leafmould containers or hanging basket liners
• an old road atlas to turn into wrapping paper

and finally ...
old breadcrumbs to freeze, until I make a nutloaf

Do you think I need professional help?

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

Nope - because you know WHY you are hoarding....I come into the 'well, surely this will come in useful for SOMETHING' category of hoarder.....

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Hazel
www.hazelandjanesallotment.blogspot.com
update Sun 30/11/2008......Indoor Allotmenteering too!.....

I'm a hoarder of eveything & always think it will come in useful for something. O.H. is the opposite & is always trying to throw things out when I'm not looking. He's throws things in the bin & then I go out & 'rescue' them to either re-use myself or put in charity bags!

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Into every life a little rain must fall.

Terrible hoarder here! In fact I sometimes wonder whether when my children are grown and gone, I might not be one of those sad souls that the fire brigade has to tunnel in to find after the neighbours notice a funny smell

I used last month some foam stored since 1977.
I used some steel sheet stored since 1982.
Some aluminium from 1983.
And we used last year a light fitting stored from 1987.

But I'm not a hoarder..