Minced meat anyone?

I remember when we were first married, I bought a Spong mincer with some of the money given to us.  Every time I minced meat, I took it out of the box and set to work by clamping it to the table and putting the handle on with a chosen mincer piece and turning the nut on to hold it all together.  Then when it was all finished, taking it apart and trying to wash the left over fat and mince out of the pieces and getting that cloth into the hole at the top and from side to side, drying it off and putting it in the box again for another day. 

Don't know how long I used it for, but it was one day I put it in the box and it never came out again til yesterday.....I had even forgotten where I put it. 

I had to clear out a cupboard way up near the ceiling, a cupboard I even forgot existed - and I don't think I have ever opened since we have been here - almost 30 years! 

Well apart from the Spong Mincer, the cupboard was full of those Kodak slides, all organised in boxes with labels of my travels in the late 60s/70s and thank goodness the sleeves were still on the boxes........the dust was unbelievable!  I always wondered where I put those.  There was also a slide viewer, a radiator airer and some old children's Ladybird books. 

I doubt if I would have gone to that cupboard for at least another ten years, only the lower part is housing our electric boilers for the central heating and we were going to have the expansion tank in the high cupboard, but that is all changed now and it is sitting next to the boilers on the wall in the lower cupboard.  As the top cupboard is now wrecked by a number of pipes going up through the ceiling, I won't be hoarding anything in there for a long time.

Not sure what I will be doing with the Spong Mincer either, I haven't used it for over 30 years, and I cannot see myself be bothering to clamp it to a table again.  Like most people today, I buy my mince straight from the supermarket now - so much easier -