As I sit in an imaginary circle, I turn to folks not there and say, "I am a packrat. Though I can do something with that I will throw it away before I go under. Although I will never be highly organized or disciplined like many MACnuts, I will take inspiration from them and clear my house."
I returned late Friday night from a vacation of doing nothing except eat and sleep. Well, there was that 8000 step barefoot death march just before the 620 mile return trip. Good thing my wife didn't think of it earlier as I can just now step on my blistered foot.
With limited mobility, I decided to continue my slow cleanup of the basement and the chainsaw lab. I have so much junk it is hard to navigate. Every kind of container imaginable full of screws, plumbing bits and pieces, wire, other misc. hardware, lumber stock and scrap, aluminum stock and scrap, steel stock and scrap, tractor parts, saw parts, truck parts, fluids of every sort, paint, household stuff, the list goes on and on, and that doesn't count my tools and cool stuff.
I am a packrat. Even though I can do something with almost anything, I must throw it away before I go under. There I said it to real people. To MACnuts no less.
Now for the big divide - keep and don't keep. Don't keep means trash it, scrap it, sell it or give it away. Trash should be the big winner as only another afflicted person would want most of what I have kept.
One "benefit" of being disorganized is finding stuff you had forgotten. In a filthy box I found two NOS old style 82cc exhaust ducts and one each of the two different spark arrestor screens. Reminded me that no doubt the big mufflered PM800 makes more hp than its predecessor in stock form as its screen probably flows twice what the old screens would flow.
If I find some MAC stuff that needs to go and that Brian doesn't want, I will post it. Don't hold your breath in anticipation as MAC stuff is only a small fraction of my horde.
Ron
