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Donal on November 28, 2005 - 8:54pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
When we began renovating our little house, my wife couldn't believe that I was reusing nails.  But nails aren't cheap.  We recently removed the plastic bumpers from our chair legs, which I collected in a jar.  She complained to her son, who agreed that we might need them again some day.  I've used old pipe to make closet rods.  Virtually all the trim in the house was carefully removed, scraped, restained and reinstalled somewhere.

BTW, when did Ianqui become Yankee?

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Twilight on November 28, 2005 - 9:40pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Sigh - it's a sickness, and I have it too!  But there is precedent - in earlier times a nail would never have been wasted.  They would burn old stuff just to get the nails out of it.  I'm sure that changed after machine cut nails came about.
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Yankee on November 28, 2005 - 10:04pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
'bout a week ago. Just some personal housekeeping changes...sorry I didn't announce it, but I see you all figured it out anyway.
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