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Sharpie41 |
Scrounger training
Jul 6 2011, 3:58 PM EDT
I think it would be kinda cool to make a page actually on scrounger training, like what we should teach ourselves and all, I'm sure most of it would overlap with other pages.What all you other potential scroungers think? Do you find this valuable?
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FrankLeeDeRainged |
1. RE: Scrounger training
Jul 6 2011, 4:51 PM EDT
I'm not a a potential scrounger, I'm an compulsive, inveterate one. Yesterday I stopped the bike because the pile of scrap the council workers collect beside their depot had changed shape!!!I pass it regularly as I go down to the villages and I just cast my eye over the form of it, when it changes shape it means something else has been added. So I took a look and decided the stuff was too nice to wait even while I want back for the jeep, I called the person I was going to see and he came over with his pick-up and I got; 2 aluminium box section road signs - to use as tool rest/ cutting guides. An old rubber topped computer desk - very flat and solid, ideal for furniture assembly. Some sort of wheeled office photocopier stand - fits my chop-saw a treat A good quality office chair with broken casters - to be stripped for bearings and especially the gas pistons. You may not like 'how to learn this' . . . Be poor, be in need. . . for a long time. And it will come naturally. _ Do you find this valuable? |
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Sharpie41 |
2. RE: Scrounger training
Jul 6 2011, 5:07 PM EDT
"I'm not a a potential scrounger, I'm an compulsive, inveterate one. Yesterday I stopped the bike because the pile of scrap the council workers collect beside their depot had changed shape!!!Good finds, but I don't really have a need to scrounge, but I kinda do anyways, one thing I do is if I have a need for something I can usually think of ways to substitute for it, usually just a small task but still a good thing to be able to do. I hope I never HAVE to scrounge, but if I ever do, I feel I could fair quite well Do you find this valuable? |
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FrankLeeDeRainged |
3. RE: Scrounger training
Jul 6 2011, 5:33 PM EDT
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. _ Do you find this valuable? |
