reynardo | And the answers are:

To the quiz I posted up a couple of weeks ago...

and I'll hide the answers to save your friends' page...

How many "straight" dictionaries do we have here that I just packed? (Straight as in Collins or Oxford Concise, as versus French/English or Dictionary of Music)
2, 4, 6, 7, 8
One of the old Oxfords was coverless and got thrown, but we've kept the rest.

How many "specialist" or "English-Elbonian" style dictionaries do we have?
4, 6, 8, 9, 10
From memory, Maths, Science, Geology, Biology, Medicine, Music, French, Arabic, Latin, German.

Which book do we have the most copies of?
Concise Oxford English Dictionary (we had 3)
The Bible (We had 3.5 - three whole and one New Testament)
Watership Down (We had 3 of which one is completely read to pieces)
Day of the Triffids (4 copies! A friend gave us a spare)
Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook ed. 3.5 (Only 3 copies, one of which belonged to Tony)

Which comic didn't I pack any copies of?
The Phantom
X-Men Oh well done, you lot! We never were much into those.
Doonsbury
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
Pete the P.O'd Postal worker

Why exactly do we have a quarter of a cubic metre of polystyrene stacked in the library?
safety landing gear for backyard gymnastics
Left over from the DVD and TV
ready to make scenery pieces for D&D OK, so you *do* know us far too well
Stored ready to go out on council pickup night and we forgot
Left over from making an amazing costume for Hallowe'en based on a creature from HP Lovecraft

When packing the beautiful and rather expensive Waterford Crystal glasses we were given for the wedding, how were they packed?
Lovingly in the original boxes that had been preserved especially for the move
Individually hand-wrapped in bubble wrap then submerged in polystyrene beanbag beans
Carefully wrapped in copies of the Sydney Morning Herald
Each one enclosed in an old sock then packed in wine boxes that went into bigger boxes Shaddup. Just shaddup.
Laid individually in tupperwear containers and then stacked in a packing box

Of the items placed on the kerb for the council pickup, which item disappeared not one hour after it was placed out there (long before council picked it up)?
One quarter of a cubic metre of polystyrene packing foam
My son's cheap waxed cardboard IKEA chest of drawers with one drawer missing You kerb-scavengers!
A bag containing a computer keyboard and mouse and a CD Rom drive
Wooden single bed ends
approx 50 blank or tv-show-recorded video tapes in a box

We started with 3 cubic metres of garden rubbish (branches, leaves) that needed to be mulched. How much mulch resulted?
A fifth of a cubic metre - 15:1 ratio
Half a cubic metre - 6:1 ratio Interestingly enough. And not enough for the garden, alas.
A cubic metre - 3:1 ratio
Two cubic metres - 3:2 ratio
Two and a half cubic metres - almost no space reduction at all

We packed miniatures. I got the minions to pack them. Painted, undercoated, bare metal - ranging in size from the beetle (5mm across) to the balrog. How many miniatures?
Less than 200
300 - 400
Around 500
A bit over 600 No Comment
More than a thousand

I've put a stack of stuff on Freecycle - people ask for it and come and pick it up if it interests them. Which of the following items had no response, though?
Dial up modem (56k) But it's an ANTIQUE!
Leather Welding gloves
Black metal letter box
Hooks in the shape of fingers
17 year old fridge.
And the two people (apart from