Pint glasses, a mate pulled the plug on his pub and I just wanted maybe 5 but had to take them all over 150
I've given a few away and used one last night when cleaning out the Rancilio, still washed it out
The various hex keys from flat pack furniture. Seem to have more of them than actual bits of furniture.
Golder rule. They go straight in the recycling along with any crappy wall plugs and screws.
You say that but what if , in spite of decades of evidence to the contrary I need them one day?
Covered by my other excesses. Always buy a big box of screws and boxes of fischer duopower plugs now matter how few you need.
I lost the two screws for my Fox 38 mudguard. Managed to find out the correct size via Google, but could I find them for sale separately?
A bag of 100 later and it is fitted.
Covered by my other excesses. Always buy a big box of screws and boxes of fischer duopower plugs now matter how few you need.
B&Q sells loose screws like a pick 'n' mix, priced at how many you can fit into a baggie.
Me: "Challenge accepted."
I lost the two screws for my Fox 38 mudguard. Managed to find out the correct size via Google, but could I find them for sale separately?
A bag of 100 later and it is fitted.
What do these look like? I've been looking for some flattish screws for attaching mudguard flaps.
You say that but what if , in spite of decades of evidence to the contrary I need them one day?
I've had a box of general DIY odd-job tat from my mum's house for about 10 years. Being in a new build myself, I couldn't see a use for it and finally decided it's just taking up space, binned it.
The next week my niece moved into an old house with all kinds of odd-job DIY jobs needed 😐
Or hair....
Oh its very possible to have too much and and not have enough of it
Stuff I have loads of: plenty of bike-related bits and pieces, you never know when it'll be handy.
Stuff I have loads of that I can locate when I need a specific bike-related bit or piece: nothing.
Meant to order 380kg, instead ordered 380 boxes.
In the early days of internet grocery shopping my dad was a bit of an early adopter.
Amongst the things he regularly ordered were some particularly nice herby cod fishcakes. Usually sold in packs of 4
Doing his order one day he went to add the fishcakes to his basket - deciding to order 2 packs.
Having clicked '2' he realised they were actually on promo and were being sold as 2 packs for the price of one.
So he deleted '2' and typed '1'... he thought. But the text field was really small and only displayed one digit at a time.
Come delivery day 168 fishcakes arrived with his order 🙂
He's haddo-complete nightmare there
He had his fishcake and ate it.
Trainers not sure exactly how many pairs but I’ll buy more soon.
Yup, nuts and bolts as Screwfix is so cheap to buy them in 100s.
Coats of various types and styles despite normally wearing the same 2.
T-shirts but surely everyone has dozens of them.
I was leaving a show once, and there was a kid outside handing out tiny little spray cans of Three-in-One oil. He looked really fed up, and I asked how long he would be there. He said until he gets rid of all the oil so I offered to take a couple of cans off him. He said I could have boxes of the stuff if I wanted it so I left with four boxes of a dozen cans of oil. I have given out loads, but I have still got an unopened box of twelve sat on the shelf in the garage.
grass clippings
If you're allowed grass clippings, then I'll also add sawdust and wood bits from the wood turning. Bin bags full of the bloody stuff.
Lights - bike lights and torches. I basically can't resist a bargain and any time I see a light heavily discounted I buy it. I've even given a good few away but still have about 47 more than I actually need.
Film cameras.
I am not really a collector but often there is a camera of interest in a job lot. Lots of old cameras in various states of repair plus a few shelf queens.
He had his fishcake and ate it
he got bored of them after a while so actually the dog ate most of them 🙂
Allen keys. From sets I've bought over the years, and then all the flatpack furniture I've obviously bought.....
Do rucksacks count? I have got rid of some but still have 7. also 5 sets of panniers
USB cables and GoPro connectors.
The local purveyor of fasteners dropped several boxes of assorted nuts, bolts and machine screws.
I bought a bag for a bargain £4 last year and I haven't used a single one. I have used the bolts that I went in for
Spunk
I lost the two screws for my Fox 38 mudguard. Managed to find out the correct size via Google, but could I find them for sale separately?
A bag of 100 later and it is fitted.
What do these look like? I've been looking for some flattish screws for attaching mudguard flaps.
Oh, I've got hundreds of them !
Absolutely loads of wood offcuts that might come in useful for something one day. If I'm cutting wood, any leftovers bigger than a matchbox, I just can't throw away. It's an illness. Although to be fair, I did use one today to stir a tin of varnish. Vindicated
Absolutely loads of wood offcuts that might come in useful for something one day. If I'm cutting wood, any leftovers bigger than a matchbox, I just can't throw away. It's an illness. Although to be fair, I did use one today to stir a tin of varnish. Vindicated
Immediately thought of this.
https://youtube.com/shorts/R7LsubMttMs?si=tV1U2li7AcsugAXA
Old gear cables, just slightly too short to use on a rear mech. Because I might get to re-use them on the front mech.
Even though my most-used bike has a Rohloff hub so doesn't have a front mech. 🙄
Oh - and plenty of 26" tyres ?
99 tiny 9mm self tapping screws. One mustve gone in the wrong hole so I spent ages taking the rest out to check, but no, had to buy 100 to put the thing back together
One that's slightly left-field compared to the people saying they've got loads of bike bits... but in our house it's Duvets.
Last year, Mrs Lawman decided that washable duvets was a thing, so she went all-out and bought a couple of summer-weight ones. Those were single-sized, as they happened to be out of stock of the doubles. Then in the autumn, she bought first one, then a second, winter-weight doubles, in order to have one on the bed when the other one was being washed. Then she bought another duvet of some size/description, and today a summer-weight double has arrived. And there's still one of the original (non-washable) jobs stored in the wardrobe. We gave away a duckdown one on Freegle. I've just counted, and we've got seven duvets of various sorts/sizes/weights between two of us.
To add to that, the dog also has one of these washable ones. And the covers for the old, non-washable ones, are still in the airing cupboard - at least seven of those, plus the matching pillowcases and a similar number of fitted sheets. She sometimes complains that there's not enough space in the house; can't think why that might be. And "Do you really need all those rucksacks?"
(Yes, this could indeed go in the Disproportionately Cross thread)
Absolutely loads of wood offcuts that might come in useful for something one day. If I'm cutting wood, any leftovers bigger than a matchbox, I just can't throw away. It's an illness. Although to be fair, I did use one today to stir a tin of varnish. Vindicated
When we were clearing out my wife's parents' house opened up the under eves storage of the attic conversion he'd put in. Was filled with off cuts. Her dad had been hoarding them for years. Took a day to clear out and filled a large skip.
Picture hooks. I needed about six, it was cheaper to buy a pack of 100 from screwfix at the time. Which was about 10years ago. I have at least 90 left. With the little pins.
Tea lights. I was in Ikea 26 years ago buying a new desk when I moved to our current house and they had a pack of 100 for about £2. It was such a bargain I bought a pack. We don’t use tea lights s I have 100 left
Neuroses, learned behaviours, traumas, intrusive thoughts addictions....
Guitar picks. Bought lots of variety packs to find “The One”. Then bought that material and thickness in various shapes and sizes to see what I liked best. Tried them all and decided that I actually preferred one of the different ones and now that’s all I use.
I work part time in a hardware shop so fortunately my days of lots of part-boxes of screws are significantly reduced. When I moved house during lockdown, I skipped loads of boxes....
I still have a handy box of used derailleur inner cables and left over pieces of outer cable - even the 5x one metre lengths of outer cable that Chain Reaction sent me when I ordered 5 metres...
I have a sublimation printing business, so I have a workshop full of mugs, tea towels and suchlike - however, it's not uncommon to be searching the kitchen cupboards or dishwasher to find a clean one...
Tea lights. I was in Ikea ... and they had a pack of 100 for about £2. It was such a bargain I bought a pack. We don’t use tea lights s I have 100 left
We have quite a few of those tucked away in a drawer too. Never get used at home, so once in a while I take a handful to a bothy, forget to light them, and leave them there. At the current rate of attrition, I reckon I'll still be doing this at the age of 137.
I have a sublimation printing business, so I have a workshop full of mugs, tea towels and suchlike - however, it's not uncommon to be searching the kitchen cupboards or dishwasher to find a clean one...
Why do you have dirty mugs in the cupboard?
Disc Brake rotors, I always seem to have every possible option under the sun apart from the one I need at that exact moment, so another one gets added to the pile.
Is confused! How many bikes and brake combinations do you have, and how often do you need to swap rotors around? I’ve only needed to change a rotor once in the last fifteen-twenty years, because I had to replace the callipers on one bike*, and the new front one required a slightly larger diameter rotor.
*Two of my bikes hadn’t been ridden in years, the original M4 Hope callipers on my S/S were original monoblocs and had seized up, the new E4’s needed a slightly bigger diameter on the front.
Haemacrit levels.
Bike shoes:
Clipless for winter, summer and inbetween.
Flats for winter, summer and inbetween.
Spare flats because they were a good deal.
Flats for casual wear.
Bike jackets:
At least 9 including waterproof, windproof, hiviz.
