I'm puzzled

[dieselcrawler]

Wow... I can fight both sides of this.

My tractor is the single most valuable ($ value) vehicle we own. It gets its place in the barn, in 3 years it might have sat outside overnight 5 to 10 times. I wish we had garage space to keep our daily drivers covered as well, but not yet... it's in the plans.

I come from a long bloodline of hoarders, when my grandmother died, they found shopping bags of neatly stacked egg cartons, cottage cheese containers, butter containers, some 30+ years old, neatly stored in the attic, basement, etc. You never would have known it to walk in grandma's house, but if you start looking... it was scarey. My mom is fighting those tendencies, as am I. My wife gives me he11 daily about 'my junk' in/around the barn. But it's all 'good junk' I tell her, and I often reuse it for other projects and save us $ by doing so. It's a balancing act.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I was raised to believe that tools were worth more then human life itself! My sister and I had to clean our bicycles and then present them for inspection. I hated cleaning each section of rim in between the spokes the worst. But today, I am grateful for this upbringing.

What I don't understand is so many people don't look after their stuff, yet they are the first to complain about a scratch or something when they buy something used. Who cares! You are gonna destroy it anyway! Then there are those that think their abused stuff is worth as much as someones cared for stuff. I had a wealthy friend who bought nothing but high priced vehicles and equipment. He abused it, operated it wrecklessly and never repaired anything cosmetic, ever. Then he was always upset at what he was offered for trade value.

My Dad also taught me to always return borrowed things in better condition then when you got them. Often, I got the impression that the people didn't even care.

 

[dickfoster]

Wow... I can fight both sides of this.

My tractor is the single most valuable ($ value) vehicle we own. It gets its place in the barn, in 3 years it might have sat outside overnight 5 to 10 times. I wish we had garage space to keep our daily drivers covered as well, but not yet... it's in the plans.

I come from a long bloodline of hoarders, when my grandmother died, they found shopping bags of neatly stacked egg cartons, cottage cheese containers, butter containers, some 30+ years old, neatly stored in the attic, basement, etc. You never would have known it to walk in grandma's house, but if you start looking... it was scarey. My mom is fighting those tendencies, as am I. My wife gives me he11 daily about 'my junk' in/around the barn. But it's all 'good junk' I tell her, and I often reuse it for other projects and save us $ by doing so. It's a balancing act.

When my MIL died we found a lot of the same kinda thing. Even a drawer full of those tabs used to keep bag for a loaf of bread closed. Also a bunch of wire things I found in the closets. I thought they were to help her hang stuff lower down because she was short but later found them to be the wire from moth crystal blocks.
I tend to horde scrap metal and parts that I can use for other projects too but simply because scrap metal cost so much when you try to buy it these days.

 

[dieselcrawler]

My Dad also taught me to always return borrowed things in better condition then when you got them. Often, I got the impression that the people didn't even care.

Totally agree... even if they don't care, I clean/grease/repair the borrowed item because it's the right thing to do, and paves the way for future borrowing. However, the list of people I'm willing to borrow from, or lend to, is short. I take good care of my things, and better care of other's things.

 

[bigtiller]

Borrow it the first time.
Rent it the second time.
Buy it the third time.
4th, if you stop working to borrow it, you should stop working to return it, don't wait until it is convenient for you.

 

[theg]

Neighbor just bought a new tractor. Since first day it's been outside siting by round bales. He's one of the few that may have more money to burn. Funny my trucks sit out but tractor is covered.

 

[Dozernut]

I left my RTV out one night and a thunderstorm came through and dropped a tree on it. Karma is a big B. My equipment sits in the shed 99% of the time and my old truck sits out. It would be inside but it won't fit. I would leave the wife out in the weather and put the tractor in if I had a choice. After my vision returned and the swelling went down I don't tell her that anymore .

 

[Bird]

Some things move easier than others. Lots of people have garages filled with stuff that GoodWill wouldn't take and $50,000 cars parked outside.

Yep, that's always amazed me, even more than the tractors sitting outside. All houses in this area are built with a garage, usually a 2 car garage. But I only know of one person in the area, besides ME, that parks a vehicle in the garage. They all sit outside in the driveway. I sure like to have mine in the garage, especially if it's extra hot, extra cold, raining, icy, etc., when I got to get in it to go somewhere.

 

[2ndhalf]

Mapper I share your concern. All of my stuff is inside.
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Oddly enough my dad lives next door; he has 2 - 100' X 50' barns and his tractor sits outside most of the time. :confused3:

Man Cat.. you need some more implements.. a lot of room in that barn.

 

[2ndhalf]

A lot of farmers used machinery sheds around here.. open in front and enclosed on only 3 sides. You don't see as many of those being built now though with the pole barns being economical to build.