In alt.home.lawn.garden on Sun, 12 Dec 2004 05:25:25 GMT GFRfan
posted:

meirman wrote:
The threaded thing on the end of my garden hose leakes, and I wanted
to cut it off and buy something to clamp on to the end that wouldn't
leak.

They seem only to sell devices for 5/8 and 3/4 inch hose, and I'm sure
mine is smaller than that.

Do they not make my size anymore?

??

Any place I can get these connectors?

??

Meirman

If this is one of those cheap plastic 1/2" hoses I'd just toss it and
get a hose with some volume.

Thanks for replying but I've never noticed that it has inadequate
volume. It's always been enough for all of my purposes, even when in
series with two other hoses.

I don't believe in waste. Once I own something, I use it until it's
not usable anymore.

If it had inadequate volume, I would assign it to tasks for which its
volume was adequate.

If something requires fixing, I compare the cost of a repair with the
cost of replacement or of no longer having something (all the costs,
including the costs to society).

If I have no need for something that's usuable, I give it to Goodwill
Industries. If it needs repair first, I usually repair it. (On rare
occasions I donate it broken or I would be willing to fix it if I
needed it, but the effort required to fix it is too great since I
don't know how much any of Goodwill's customers will want it.) It
amazes me how many people throw good stuff, even working stuff, in the
trash rather than share it with people who need it. (I also sometimes
sell things at yard sales, but I normally will only give away things
to certain people. Many people will take anything if it is free, and
then treat it badly, leave it out in the rain to rust, for example.

But If they paid even a dollar for it, they usually treat it better.

Another reason to keep this hose, if these are not enough, is that I
need 2 or 3 hoses to reach my car, should I ever wish to wash my car
at home. If I threw away the hose I wrote about and then one of my
other two hoses starts splitting all over the place, and isn't worth
repairing, I wouldn't have enough hose to reach my car.

I also need 3 hoses to reach to the back yard from the front faucet.
Sometimes the rear faucet is still turned off from the winter, and
sometimes I just don't want to bother connecting back there.

Also, I needed 3 or 4 hoses when I went away for more than a month
just after planting a tree and a couple bushes. Using a timer and Y
connectors and several hoses, I was able to water just what I had
planted without wetting my neighbors or making a swamp out of the
public path at the edge of my property.


The principle of not wasting is more important than the money,
although the money would be a sufficient reason.


"Use it up, wear it out,
fix it up, or do without."

"Lo tashlis."


This came out a lot longer than I intended. Oh well.

Meirman

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