What did you get for Xmas?

ebee:

People get entrenched with dogma. What has always been always is and always will.


Example, my late father in law always viewed goods being more expensive than labour, he`d travel miles to "save a shilling" .

In the 70s he would remark about me buying three chisels for chases on a rewire wheras he would buy one and when it got blunt he`d break off the job and find a little local back street engineering shop and ask them to sharpen it for 50p or whatever. It would take him some time off his job in hand. I`d wait till after job ends and get all 3 sharpened.


Another example early 80s he travel 17miles, 30 mins each way to save £2 off a door - one door!, if it was say 10 doors then yes good idea, but one door?


People were brought up like that and it stayed with them for life, with good reasons at the time. But times changed but not their habits. So it`s not actually as daft as first appears.


Nowadays we tend to throw things away with usefull life remaining, that irks me more

ebee:

People get entrenched with dogma. What has always been always is and always will.


Example, my late father in law always viewed goods being more expensive than labour, he`d travel miles to "save a shilling" .

In the 70s he would remark about me buying three chisels for chases on a rewire wheras he would buy one and when it got blunt he`d break off the job and find a little local back street engineering shop and ask them to sharpen it for 50p or whatever. It would take him some time off his job in hand. I`d wait till after job ends and get all 3 sharpened.


Another example early 80s he travel 17miles, 30 mins each way to save £2 off a door - one door!, if it was say 10 doors then yes good idea, but one door?


People were brought up like that and it stayed with them for life, with good reasons at the time. But times changed but not their habits. So it`s not actually as daft as first appears.


Nowadays we tend to throw things away with usefull life remaining, that irks me more