General Chat

OH is a chef so we both use the kitchen cupboards.

I tend to grab my pan and not look at anything else, the same putting it back.

I had to look further into the pan cupboard yesterday for something and discovered that many of those pan, and I had always thought we were very well supplied, are not pans at all. They are all steamer baskets!

Whatever does he want them for!?

After my husband died 16 years ago.

I thought I would go down to the cellar/man cave and have a look to see what he had left me.

As far as I was concerned it was jars and jars of screws/nails all mixed up together,what a pain
He had also left a massive metal tool box on wheels which was crammed packed with you name it was in there,cables,screws,nails and all sorts for engines of cars.


Cost me £250 to get somebody to get rid of it all

It would help if they labelled the jars with what was in them! When you ask, they haven't a clue themselves!

Another thing that FIL had was lots of small tins he had saved from things like tobacco or throat pastilles. They were spread around on different shelves in the shed and some were even in the house in the spare room or in drawers in other rooms. Each one seemed to have the same variety of contents ie a small screw, a washer, nail, a nut that didn't fit the screw and an old fuse or drawing pin!!! :-S

That in the "jars "may" be paint brush cleaner ?

I used to keep used screws and nails, all lengths and gauges, seldom used them.

Because one day ................

Just before we moved into our first home of our own FIL gave my OH some aluminium off cuts. 3 moves later they were still unused and we were about to move again so he got rid of them.

A few days after our move to our new house OH went and bought some aluminium hooks to hold up our new ladder in the garage :-S

Be careful what you do with your cables one day...........

To be generous, they could have been called away for another important task...like removing a spider from the bath tub ;-)

That's it.

Do you mean, like remnants/souvenirs of allegedly 'interesting' things they've done in the past?
"This jar contains all that's left of the stain I used on the cupboard we threw out 4 years ago" sort of thing?

Could it be to make other men jealous?

Annx

"What I want to know is why men keep lots of jam jars with half an inch of unknown 'substances' in the bottom, often congealed or with a hardened, useless brush sticking out?"

'cause they can :-D :-D :-D

Chri

JoyLouise FIL collected wood and cables. When we cleared the house 3 years ago, he'd even kept every bit of wire from when the house was re-wired in the 50s! Little coils of it were everywhere, as well as cables from everything else, plus all the bakelite plugs. Knobs off everything he did throw away were all kept too.

What I want to know is why men keep lots of jam jars with half an inch of unknown 'substances' in the bottom, often congealed or with a hardened, useless brush sticking out?

In the old American movies, character actors were frequently sending 'cables' hither & thither - long before E-Mails & the like were invented.

OK...I'll keep looking for the cable stash...............

This is a specialist thread, Gwynne.

No hoards of cable here or if there is it's so well hidden behind the rest of the junk.

What beats me is where stuff comes from. Sometimes I find things I've never seen before........???

This is not new though. I had a thread about it many years ago.
https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_chat/thread/1235539

Men collect everything
I wouldn't even dream of going into our Garage

without wearing a hard hat :-D :-D

Why do men collect cable ... and wood!

A piece of wood for every occasion at ours. :-S

I think changing a plug is becoming a dying art. We could both change plugs but all the electrical gear now seems to come complete with plugs attached. It seems the younger generation may be de-learning if they ever learned how to do it in the first place. :-S

Chris obvuosly hasn’t tried changing a plug for years!


Maybe after you know what we,ll be able to go back to the old system, which made more sense.

Just thinking, Elizabeth. Maybe you could find a man who didn't have a big enough collection of cables of his own and you could give yours to him.

Cables would go in the metal recycling container at your local Dump.
The Attendants would advise if the remotes & plugs could go in the same or with the ‘small appliances’.
Domestic Batteries are collected separately. Some supermarkets have a recycling box for them.