Unfinished Projects

Hey guys, I can't be the only one who does this, but does anyone else start things and then leave them months or years without returning to them?

I wonder if it's an autism thing?

In some cases, years later I don't even return to some projects despite knowing that it still needs to be done. I either lose interest or, more likely, I get busy doing something else that takes up all my time and interest. I find it difficult to be interested in multiple things at once.

Of the top of my head these are some of my unfinished projects...

* I have multiple books that I've started writing and then stopped and never returned to. They are saved on my computer waiting to see the light of day again.

* I have a Rover SD1 Vitesse Twin Plenum which I bought a few years ago when I was 21. I parked it to the right of the workshop at the end of the yard by the trees, intending to get to it. Here we are nearly 6 years later and it's still parked there and a tree branch has since fell on it, smashing the rear window and rust has set in the usual places.

* I intended to paint my room so bought the brushes, paint and overalls to do the job. The paint and kit is all still waiting to be used.

* I have an old stereo from the 80s at the back of my workshop, waiting to be restored.

* I have a classic Mini Cooper which I had intended to restore and repaint as one of the Minis from the Italian Job. I want to repaint it as the white one which was always my favourite of the 3. It's been in my workshop nearly 10 years now.

These are just some of my unfinished projects but there are many, many more which I haven't listed here.

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  • Ahhh sounds like amazing memories you’ve got with your sister! You should try and do a pumpkin craft again even if you don’t get to see her so much now! 
    Who knows, maybe I’ll get round to finally spray painting some pumpkins this year! :) 

  • Yeah mine is always increasing too! I have all these grand ideas but can’t seem to follow through on them

    Haha me too, I completely relate!

    Your pumpkin spraying sounds like a great idea and I hope one day you'll get round to doing it. I'd like to give that a go one day as well, maybe if my sister comes round we can do it together as she's left home now we don't see each other all that much.

    My sister and I used to carve the pumpkins and give them silly faces. We applied makeup to them, gave them hats and scarves, glasses.. Once we took Grampys tweed hat for one but we got in trouble foSweat smilethat Sweat smile

  • Yeah mine is always increasing too! I have all these grand ideas but can’t seem to follow through on them. 
    The pumpkin project was to spray paint them all in pastel colours to make a display for outside my house as I hate the smell and feel of the inside of a pumpkin when carving, and this idea eliminated that! I bought all the pumpkins and they just sat around the side of my house and the spray paint remains in the shed! 
    what did you do with your pumpkins?