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sagalout · Nov 25, 2016

When you buy a replacement for for something, let's say a reel, what do you do with the one you're replacing, assuming it ain't junk.

Do you keep as a cuminandy?
Bin it?
Try and sell it for pennies?
Store it so the kids/missus has a reel (see what I did there?) nightmare clearing all your junk out when you get dead?
Something else?

binka · Nov 25, 2016

I keep a large skip on the drive for chair frames, as soon as it's full it gets collected and weighed in with the proceeds going to good causes.

I've built two schools and a health centre so far

Anything else I tend to hang on to in case it comes in handy for repairs

mikench · Nov 25, 2016

I used to keep most things but now bin them! This applies to shoes, clothes and tackle. Mind you most of my must have tackle and bits and pieces are like new!

Keith M · Nov 25, 2016

If it is still in fairly good nick I either give it to my son (if he needs it) or just store it away incase someone else I know ever takes up the sport.

I only have one old fibreglass rod left which is an ultra light canal winkle picker (which I once won in a pairs match) and I have either given the rest away or used them for the runner beans many years ago. And I also have an old MKIV split cane Carp rod which I very occasionally still get out if I am feeling a bit nostalgic (which isn't very often) together with an old Mitchell 300.

I still have a lot of my old reels (Mitchell, Abu, Diawa, Shakespeare Intrepid etc.) and still use one or two of them like my Abu 506 my Mitchell Match and one of my Abu Cardinal 55's (which I very occasionally use if I am fishing a floating crust).

Most but not all of the other old fishing tackle I throw away.

Keith.

robtherake · Nov 25, 2016

If something's well and truly superceded by a better product it finances yet another unnecessary item...unless it has sentimental value...or may come in handy as a back-up...or is a source of spares.

F

k it, I keep everything, alright? It's why we have lofts, FFS.

chrissh · Nov 25, 2016

I pack it up in a box and post it if it’s not too large or if it on the big side when I’m visiting family I drop it off to Les Webber MBE - Angling Projects Gets Kids Hooked on Fishing not grugs

Angling Projects Gets Kids Hooked on Fishing.

All my fishing gear will end up here when I’m feeding the worms

Philip · Nov 25, 2016

I cant throw anything anyway...I always think that will come in handy one day....

I recently threw away my old pair of overtrousers. To say I wore them to the last would be an understatement. Threadbare, stained, more holes and rips than material. It was only because I sort of slipped putting them on (you know that sort of hopping motion when you have one leg in and you trying to get the other leg in..) and basically I fell, stamped down with my foot and tore the entire leg off them. Even then I had a long long look before I finally consigned them to the bin.

It was a sad day.

robtherake · Nov 25, 2016

Philip said:
I cant throw anything anyway...I always think that will come in handy one day....

I recently threw away my old pair of overtrousers. To say I wore them to the last would be an understatement. Threadbare, stained, more holes and rips than material. It was only because I sort of slipped putting them on (you know that sort of hopping motion when you have one leg in and you trying to get the other leg in..) and basically I fell, stamped down with my foot and tore the entire leg off them. Even then I had a long long look before I finally consigned them to the bin.

It was a sad day.

A man after my own heart. My favourite fishing trousers end up so threadbare you can see through the knees - when they get too tatty to wear I can hardly bear to put them in the compost heap.

sagalout · Nov 25, 2016

Apart from the kids fishing thingy no real ideas then, you're all a bunch of hoarders.

Philip · Nov 25, 2016

Well you could do the try and trusted relegation system. Take a tee-shirt for example my relegation system is as follows :

Nightclubbing
Saturday shopping
Sunday walking
Fishing
Gardening
Painting
Drain cleaning
Oil rag
Bonfire kindling

Of course I never quite get to the bonfire ...they usually hang around the fishing/Gardening stage for longer than they should (ok for ever) ...some have even been known to get promoted on occasion !

sagalout · Nov 26, 2016

Philip said:
Well you could do the try and trusted relegation system.

All my t shirts (and I only own t shirts) are "work" shirts" and I wear them til they fall apart hen they go in the rag bin. If she really gets the hump about the way I look she finds the least stained/paint covered and makes me put it on. Clothes are only comfortable after 2 or 3 years of wear and washing.

Good fishing tackle is comfortable from the off, so there is a question of what do do with the serviceable but relegated kit.

rayner · Nov 26, 2016

I say a lot that it's my statutory right as a Yorkshire man to be tight fisted.
As such I never sell anything for less than I bought it.
I never give anything away including "DISGORGERS" !!!
I have rarely bought anything that was a waste of my money and keep everything.
If I lose anything I lay awake ages thinking how I could have prevented the loss.
OK that last line is not true but you get the gist of how I roll.

mark_t · Nov 26, 2016

Well I have just been using my old Daiwa reel that must be 30 years old and it worked a treat I cant remember why it was replaced now

mikench · Nov 26, 2016

Spoken like a true Yorkshireman Rayner! Your tale reminds of the Yorkshireman who finds his wife sobbing because he has forgotten her birthday. "I am sorry Lass what would thee like" she replies that she would like a burial plot in yonder field with a view of the valley below. "Right Lass I will buy it for thee for thy birthday " A year later he finds his wife sobbing again. " what is wrong lass "he cries. " you have forgotten my birthday again" she wails. "But you haven't used last years present yet"

flightliner · Nov 26, 2016

When my old wellies have had enough I fill them with concrete, After tearing away the outers when its set the concrete "boots" are stuck upside down in the garden --- right now my rockery looks like a few guys have skydived onto it and failed to open their parachutes!.

binka · Nov 26, 2016

flightliner said:
When my old wellies have had enough I fill them with concrete, After tearing away the outers when its set the concrete "boots" are stuck upside down in the garden --- right now my rockery looks like a few guys have skydived onto it and failed to open their parachutes!.

That's ingenious Mick, a float wrap made from discarded rubber wellie outers

S-Kippy · Nov 27, 2016

I'm sorry to say all my gear that gets upgraded goes in the shed. Trouble is the shed is now full and I really do need to clear it out. I'm loathe to chuck decent useable gear away but it's got very little resale value.

I keep meaning to do a car boot and try and get a few quid for it but I cannot face the thought of squabbling with the punters.

sagalout · Nov 27, 2016

Hence the reason for this thread Skippy, I feel the same. I'd rather shove wasps up me 4rse than go to a car boot.

Anyone tried cash converters or summink similar?

S-Kippy · Nov 27, 2016

sagalout said:
Hence the reason for this thread Skippy, I feel the same. I'd rather shove wasps up me 4rse than go to a car boot.

Anyone tried cash converters or summink similar?

I'm thinking you might as well chuck it away for all that you'll get off those footpads.

maggot_dangler · Nov 27, 2016

binka said:
That's ingenious Mick, a float wrap made from discarded rubber wellie outers

Think you may want to be carefull just who's old welloies they are though some may well be listed as WMD's (chemical & Biological ) ..
and gawd knows how long the effects would last before they became fish safe .

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