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jema Downsizer Moderator
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Northern_Lad
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mochyn
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sean Downsizer Moderator
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Northern_Lad
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gil Downsizer Moderator
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monkey1973
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sean Downsizer Moderator
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bernie-woman
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mochyn
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gil Downsizer Moderator
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gil Downsizer Moderator
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sally_in_wales Downsizer Moderator
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sally_in_wales Downsizer Moderator
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jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28140 Location: escaped from Swindon
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 06 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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gil wrote: |
Just out of interest, how do you (Jema) and other Downsizers define :
a) clutter
b) junk
c) useless
Would you be prepared to give examples ? Probably different for everyone, depending on their situation...
I'd say that
Clutter is something visible that takes up space and has no regular, practical purpose
Junk is something you don't and most likely won't use, but someone else might, either on view or stored away
Useless is something broken, or waiting to be mended (but you really know never will be), or for which you have no current or foreseeable purpose, and maybe noone else in their right mind would have either. |
Some of the stuff that has gone is:
cards from our wedding 18 years ago, newspaper cuttings from past campaigns , read a classic there "Never in all my years of reporting including in Lebanon and Beiruit have I seen such scenes..."
51/4" floppy disk cases.
Some old computer bits.
Old carpet.
A very scruffy backpack.
The list just goes on, it ain't freecyclable. |
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