If you can do it when you don't 'need' to, your going to be outstanding, when you do!

I was walking towards a shared house with a friend. Two doors away I let him move on and reached over the garden wall and took an old ornate mirror from their trashcan. My friend had gone ahead and opened the door. I walked past him with the mirror under my arm and hung it on the nearest unused picture hook.
This all happened in less than a minute but he was surprised, as in "where the hell did you get that"
He'd walked right past it, didn't notice it sat there in full view. I've wondered since if his chronically bad eyesight (glasses since early childhood) had made him use his vision less. Something like, rely on it less, I don't know how to express this clearly.

Scrounging is mostly down to luck, spelled L.O.O.K.
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given enough time you could order from you local lumber yard custom cut boards of plywood designed to fit all your ground floor windows and doors get two sheets for each door and and window plus some lengths of 2" x 2" framing timber, plan to fix the first board outside the door / window frame tight up against the wall and frame so that it presents no gap for a crowbar etc, once this initial board is fixed build a frame around the edge of the board and and at least two diagonals then fix the second board on top forming a board sandwich and from the inside drill two holes and use these to fill with expanding foam, all this can be cut in advance stored in bundles for each individual door and window and if you have the luxury of a cheap nail gun you could barricade your home in no time at all.
ps buy a ladder and plan to enter your home thru the upstairs window.

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Damn. Old thread is Old.

I really don't like looking at my posts from a year ago. I have a sneaking suspicion that what I said was stupid when I do come across them.

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