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I just decided I fancied a cheese and pickled onion butty. Like one does of a Friday afternoon, when one has been working from home, and therefore not passing a Greggs
So I went to get the pickled onions out of the cupboard and noted that there was a jar already open, plus another five unopened jars. Now I'm quite partial to the odd pickled onion, but this seems excessive. I've no idea where they all came from, or why on five occasions, while doing the shopping I thought to myself "I'll just get some more pickles, just in case"
What anomalies have you discovered in your household logistics?
Sarcasm.
Bucketloads to spare. More than a man can dish out in a lifetime.
In the second drawer in the kitchen (every kitchen has 'that drawer', and in ours it's the second drawer), there are probably approaching 100 safety pins. I know not from whence they came, but there they are.
Old Apple 30 pin cables.
We have more Lightning devices than we ever had 30 pin ones, but can I find a Lightning cable when I want to? Can I buggery.
More than a man can dish out in a lifetime.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, right.
🙂
Yeah, right.
Well aren't you Mr Clever?
Steez, more than I can fit into all the whips I'll ever style. Bro.
Rapeseed oil.
Bought a bottle at Aldi (not Booths, too posh/expensive) & when I got home I found 3 unopened ones in the cupboard plus a half full one.
I just decided I fancied a cheese and pickled onion butty.
And it's phrases like this that make ladies across the land associate the name Binners with an image like
Self raising flour
half way round the supermarket I think "I know, I'll make a cake later"...then I try to remember if I've flour in the cupboard, so I buy a 500g pack just in case. The answer is of course. "Yes, you bloody idiot, you've enough sodding flour to bake a cake the size of your house, stop buying it"
Tyre levers. FAAAAAAASANDS of 'em.
Also, grape scissors. More than several pairs.
Ear hairs.
Tyre levers. FAAAAAAASANDS of ’em.
Same here. Although none, it turned out, in the bag I take riding 🙁
😆 @IHN (not the tyre levers! The suave binners!)
Seriously - music. Vinyl, cassettes, minidiscs, CDs and millions of files I'll never ever get a chance to listen to more than once or even that. And I've got internet "basket"s full of new stuff too. Make it stop.
'Suave' is definitely the first word on the laydeeez lips when they think of me. Definitely not fat, bald, irritating or 'smells of pickles' 😀
What do you mean 'or'?
Also, grape scissors
huh...grape scissors, who knew?...Everyday's a school day...
I was thinking that. I've never heard of grape scissors. Are they what one buys as a gift for the international jet-setter who has everything*?
* including 14 pairs already
grape scissors - the tool for emasculating your standard grape so that it becomes seedless.
‘smells of pickles’
Baby wipes; I appear to order them in multiples of 10 then forget I have loads, order more and find the last delivery when putting the new ones away.
I do not have children.
Who, on this forum, would own grape scissors??
Oh. Just scrolled up. *nods*
Are they what one buys as a gift for the international jet-setter who has everything*?
* including 14 pairs already
My LBS bought me a monogrammed 'executive' back scratcher for Christmas.
Re the grape scissors, inherited a collection of them, all silver.
Bikes. Last time I looked I had about 7. I only remember buying 2.
And Bran Flakes. If post Brexit, food is scarce I have sufficient to provision the entire population of Herefordshire for around a month. They’ll need to bring their own milk tho 🙂
I think grape scissors are the ones with short and stocky blades for doing a short, powerful cut through a grape stalk.
They live next to the herb shears in the 3rd drawer from the sink.
Tape measures. I can only measure one thing at a time and although I can see the requirement for having a small pocket-sized one for trips to the DIY store (so I look the part) along with a 500m behemoth in case I need to visit a trade counter, but I appear to have collected around 300 of them, secreted in drawers and tool boxes around the house and workshop.
secreted in drawers and tool boxes around the house and workshop.
I bet, if they're anything like many tape measures in our house, you can still never bl00dy find one when you need one though, eh?
Cats, we appear to be up to four now.......
a 500m behemoth
That's a big 'un.
I'm a professional measurer and my laser only does 200m.
Ooh, get him and his "I've got a laser" humblebrag.
Hair gel, I don't actually use much but it's always on 2 for 1 and I can never remember if I have any spares when I'm at the supermarket so buy it just in case. Think I had 6 tubes of it last time I checked which is probably 2-3 years supply. No doubt I'll buy more in the next month or two (although maybe this thread is enough memory reinforcement that I have enough...)
Ooh, get him and his “I’ve got a laser” humblebrag.
I have an inexplicable abundance of them 😉
I’m a professional measurer
I've got a 12 incher but I don't use it as a rule.
XT 9 speed 11-34 cassettes, unused.
Got about 7 of them in my spares box.
Excuses
And handlebars, I'm not even that fussy, couldn't tell you what rise or sweep my current bike has, or even their width. I ride narrow ones, wide ones, flat ones, riser ones, weird bendy ones, but for some reason I never want to put one of the 15 or so pairs in my spares box on a new bike?
Razor blades, got a selection of makes to see which ones I prefered, then decided to grow a beard so use about 1 a year.
Shaving parifielia, every year some non thinking relative gets me a designer/cosmetics company wash bag which inevitably includes face wash, moistuiser/shave balm, and saving gel.
Wash bags - see above, at least 4 of them.
Modesty.
That and mugs. 2 people live in our house, and I don’t drink tea or coffee, yet we have dozens of mugs...
along with a 500m behemoth
Bet that’s really satisfying to press the button to roll up *sssnick*
Holi powder- about 30 kilos
blue smoke grenades
And handlebars, I’m not even that fussy, couldn’t tell you what rise or sweep my current bike has, or even their width
I have a good collection of those too. Even short flat steel ones off my kid's old bike. Why do I keep them?
And some new carbon ones. Unfitted. Why did I buy them?
Girth.
And dislike for Spanish outsourcing companies that make Manuel look like a ... flipping.. genius.
I reckon I've got about 6 pairs of handlebars in the corner of the shed too
Is 10 vacuum cleaners too many got one person?
brant will be along in a minute with a p-x/on-one stock check...
6 pairs of handlebars
So, 12 handlebars then?