Is it just me.

Having just convinced SWMBO that we really need to chuck out the POS table that's lived under the front window, she agreed and I set to taking the legs off it to take it to our friendly neighbourhood local authority recycling centre.

There I was, 4mm allen key in hand, spinning out the M6 fasteners and washers (x8) and thinking to myself.


"I can use these".


Is it just me, or are there any other sad cases out there who recycle 10p bolts ?

(I'll probably never use them incidentally, but I have a recycled pasta suace jar in mind for putting them in on the shelf.)

Yes that’s very sad

but worth doing I've got shelves of coffee jars filled with bolts and nuts their priceless

Oh yes

I was taking apart a stainless steel lamp the other day (Argos recalled them due to some dodgey wiring) the shaft was made up of 4*30cm stainless tube with threaded ends... They're in my garage waiting to be something useful.

Of course it's the day after you chuck out those things (having sat in the garage unused for years) that you finally need them.....

Then again, the builders have been kind with their fly-tipping outside my garage and those bits get used. First of a big sheet of new polycarb window sheeting (side screens) then 5 lengths of 2M long angle bracketry (made a cunning swing-down shelf to store my mates hardtop roof so I can finally go driving in the Locost again- up until then the hardtop was resting on it....).

Yes, I keep most fasteners. But don't use those for anything important on the car - they will be made of chocolate-grade steel.

Yeah.. i have jars jull of that type of crap !!!!


but on more than 1 occasion i have eneded up using them

i had a scrap FWD gearbox in my garden, as bored yesterday took it apart just to see how it worked and ended up keeping all the bolts before taking it to the dump

I have jars full of second hand nails which I have removed from bits of wood then straightened out for later use.

Is that worse?

Yes, nails are worse lol But always handy when you need just one more nail !!

I do tend to keep nuts and bolts. But cheap furniture stuff i tend to throw out with the furniture.

I even pick up and store for later use fasteners I find when walking in the street

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Originally posted by Ivan
I even pick up and store for later use fasteners I find when walking in the street

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Originally posted by mookaloid
I have jars full of second hand nails

Is that worse?

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I collect old pallets and break them into bits of wood for later reuse - except i've never reused them apart from the thick wooden sections for holding up the toy car.

Its like saving a bit of wood because you know it'll be handy for stirring paint some time in the future
We used to have kitchen and bedroom place around the side from me and there'd be allsorts of people there after dark pulling the fittings off the old stuff around the skip. I've got a load of them sprung hinges, my neighbour found some carpet and replaced the one on his landing with it, I recycled his old one and put it in the garage!

I'm so happy - I can tell the wife I'm not alone - others do have piles of stuff "just in case"...

I managed to liberate four high tensile 8.8 bolts and a couple of thick bits of steel plate from an office chair my brother was thowing out at the weekend. Was well chuffed!

I'm always on the lookout for anything that may be useful in the future
My house is heated with old pallets from work , my garage is mostly built from scrap plywood (as well as the loft floor) , the kitchen and hall carpets are old exhibition stuff (again from work)
Damn..........I cant afford to change my job

And of course............my house is full of stuff that may come in handy............one day

Terrible habit.

I have piles of old crap that might be useful. one day.

No such thing as waste wood. When it's too small or knackered to make anything out of, I burn it. Lovely.
Also, I can't walk past a skip.
The best 'find' to date was a pair of Vitavox speakers that some twonk had painted orange (probably why they were thrown out during a bingo hall re-fit). Retail price in 1990, about £4/5K
The sound image is unbelievable.
Oh, that was a happy day.

Oh yes. I have pretty much every single nut bolt and fastener from my donor in a big pot, and have used precisely 1 of them

I'm moving house in a few weeks so last weekend was spent sorting out the shed and garage. I've had to be really ruthless about chucking out all of the 'potentially useful' sh*te I've collected over the years. I must have spent several hours over the course of the weekend agonising over whether a particular piece of timber was worth saving while a nearly identical piece got binned without a second thought. I've also found roughly 20L of screenwash in various half empty containers, and half a dozen dead batteries that I'd been keeping 'just in case' (no, I don't know why either)

I'm regularly upgrading kit in our server room at work. So we collect lots of spare mountings kits including angled brakets, nuts, bolts and rubber pads.

My side screens and nose cone for example are mounted with 3COM rack mounting brackets for network switches. They also come with nice chromed bolts which I swap out with ordinary ones.

When we were first married we had a glass top coffee table that ended up getting smashed during a party.I put the tubular framework aside and eventually used it about 12 years latter after 2 house moves, to make my front wing stays from.
Ive also thrown out lots of things that I had been keeping for years to find a use for them the following week.
Paul