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Chantal, i had tears of laughter running down my face at your story. Here,s another one about getting your own back. I too am married to a hoarder.
A while ago I took a old shirt of my husband's which I hated but which he wouldn,t get rid of to the charity shop. Abkut a week later he returned from a shopping errand in the village grinning his head off and looking very pleased with himself. "Guess what I found in the charity shop.? This will replace my other one when it wears out,"
Yes, you guessed. It was the same damned shirt I'd got rid of the previous week.

Dear Primrose, i think that is fair justice for getting rid of it.... i hope you re-ironed it......

I was holding my sides with laughter Chantal.

I would like to think of myself as a refined version of the characters you describe though given time I would also fill my massive shed with stuff that might be useful and I'm always on the look out for things at the tip.

The moral of this tale is as-follows, but only if you're lucky and pay-attention when you go to the tip.

I once spotted this bundle of netting. This bundle was a 100metre electric fence complete with the steel uprights and after a little more searching I found the power-pack. Two days later I had sold it for £100 on e-bay.

I'm not often that lucky nor am I often smart enough, that occasion really was an exception. It paid for a bunker of fuel when I was broke so maybe my mentor is keeping an eye on me.