If You Haven't Used it In a Year

[DirtyWhiteBoy]

My first thought about someone who would say that is that they have never built of fixed anything.
Interesting that he is a "maintenance manager".

I have many tools that go unused 2 or 3 years at a time. And NO I will not get rid of them.

[pdub]

My first thought about someone who would say that is that they have never built of fixed anything.
Interesting that he is a "maintenance manager".

I have many tools that go unused 2 or 3 years at a time. And NO I will not get rid of them.

Me either. Even if I don't even know how to use them.

[Dan Barlow]

At this point in my life , I want the garage cleaned out . That's what my current project is about , taking all my various valuable parts and making something out of them .That way the blue vette will be in the garage .

[SuperBuickGuy]

No Dan, you may not sell a Corvette.

[oletrux4evr]

On the other side of the coin.....if you have a bunch of empty space in your garage, she'll use it.

[silver_bullet]

If I did that, I'd have a lot of garage space, but, there ain't no way that I'd ever throw out may granddad's tools(both of them), my dad's tools, I even have his big old oak timber that he used at a jack stand...50 years ago....

[yellomalibu]

I installed a new torque converter in my car in 1997. It broke after a week, but because I had purchased it over 30 days before I installed it, the manufacturer wouldn't warranty it - so I bought a new one of a different manufacturer. The first one was put in it's original box and placed in a closet, where it sat, forgotten. TWENTY YEARS later, a few months ago, I was cleaning out the closet to make room for my new hobby, and "found" the converter in there... did some trading, had the converter rebuilt, and it's now in my car again.

I also still have the TH400 that died about 17 or 18 years ago sitting in my garage. It's rebuildable... or it's a core.

I have some dress clothes that I wear to weddings or funerals. They don't get worn for over a year at a time.

Jackets and other "cold" weather gear: in Florida, it can go a couple years between "cold" spells. When it's only cold a few days a year, do people actually expect us to buy "new" things every year?

My old military stuff, uniforms, etc... should I throw them out?

There are some things that could or should be tossed (or donated) after a year of not being used... but because they were Christmas gifts, I keep them for several years before guilt allows me to donate them.