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Why did I buy a gadget I know I'll never use?

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Re: Law of nature ...

NOTTAGE (n.)

Nottage is the collective name for things which you find a use for immediately after you've thrown them away.

For instance, your greenhouse has been cluttered up for years with a huge piece of cardboard and great fronds of gardening string. You at last decide to clear all this stuff out, and you burn it. Within twenty-four

hours you will urgently need to wrap a large parcel, and suddenly remember that luckily in your greenhouse there is some cardb...

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