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Author: Ben newsamBen newsam Date: Jul 25, 2008 11:08
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:20:50 +0100, Bear gmail.com>
wrote:
>There was a guy on one of the cable channels (History IIRC) a few years
>back, who had furnished his entire home, every room, with stuff he found
>in skips and on dumps. And it was nice stuff too, and his interior
>decoration, though somewhat eclectic, worked beautifully. As he himself
>said "I've got loads of time on my hands, so I've got the time to go
>looking", which matches my own theory that time and money are fairly
>interchangeable.
Now me, I have to fight with my daughter. I see a nice lampshade in a
skip, and I say "Oooh, there's a nice lampshade", and she says "Dad,
if you take that out of therenI'm leaving home", and there I am, left
with a fifty-fifty decision... lampshade.. daughter... lampshade...
daughter.. close call innit?
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