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Old 12th May 2012, 15:45
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6foottanker
 
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Consider your home. You have lived there for 10-15 years, you have bought a lot of items which make the place better, some of which only fit in a particular nook or cranny, some of which would look awful if it were not for the type of house it is. And when you think about it, you have bought an awful lot of stuff and spent an awful lot of money!

Then someday, you decide/need to move house, somewhere smaller now the kids have left home.

How much of that stuff do you actually take with you? How much goes into storage, and just how much do you throw away or leave for the next occupants because it just won't fit, you have something better or you know you're just never going to use it again?

Add to that the fact that you now only have one car and a week to move house, and .... you get the idea.

As an AT mate, I would not anticipate the prospective kit return with any sense of joy, especially now we have an AT fleet the size of a single squadron. And how much do you think the commercial freighter bill will have to be?
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