that is badass! mine is a cookie tin that came from who knows where, I can’t remember but it’s got washers, screws, springs, tacks, clips, fishing reel pcs, window hardware, grommets, sharp shit, pointy shit, unknown shit, cool shit, 2 of one thing where you need 3 shits, cotter pins, roll pins, safety pins, pads, little gears & bushings & shit that looks like it came out of the altimeter on a 1940s plane (might have?) on and on…
It has saved my ass quite a few times but the coolest thing is you don’t expect it to save your ass all the time, so it just exists, waiting there to serve you year after year
I have *three generations* of this stuff. My dad inherited my grandad’s workshop contents. I inherited my dad’s. I’m now 70 years old. The big problem is not the gallons of screws, fasteners, hinges, whatever. The real big problem is all the tools. I have boxes of wrenches, screwdrivers, sockets, etc. I have about 10 electric hand drills, half of which are “cordless” but I can’t find batteries for them, or if I can, the battery and charger cost more than the drill. But I can’t bring myself to throw them away. My grandfather’s table top scroll saw just gave up the ghost. I think it was built in the late 1920s or early 30s. I have no idea where to find parts for it.
You too?
That little shit. What, does he think dad’s bucket ‘o bolts robbed him of his childhood? The hardware cost nothing to the little squirt. Dad probably disowned the wanker already.
I’mmm… RICH, I’m rich, I’m rich, I’m rich.
Any guy that doesn’t have one of these should probably turn in their man card.
I have an old cookie tin, about 7″ dia. X 2″ deep, with all that stuff.
…Only two inches deep? …Rookie…
With the amount of dust in the bottom of those containers, I’m calling bullshit. At best, those are floor sweepings and a new ‘label’ stuck on as a parody. Nothing on the grip-rite site, so it’s ‘funnin’ around..
I use coffee cans for my “little shitties.” When I need something I dump the can into an overturned trashcan lid to make my Easter egg hunt easier and to keep ambitious desperados from rolling away. After finding what I need, the lid makes it easier to dump everything back into the can. I CAN’T COUNT the number of times those cans have saved me a trip to the hardware store or worse yet, to Home Deport!!!
I actually BUY these cans of stuff at yard sales sometimes. I often get entire cans of random hardware for a quarter! One of those cans is a Chase & Sanborn coffee can that’s old enough to have needed a KEY to originally open! That puts the can’s birth date somewhere in the 50’s or even earlier!
Hell , the coffee can itself is probably worth $10.
I still have several of my old man’s screws, bolts & washers in metal Tetley Tea cans from the 50s.
I have a dozen large pickle jars where I stash my leftovers, the grands call it my kaladeoscope as I will turn the jar to spot something before I dump it and search in earnest. This is man card 101 stuff.
It looks like a truck full of hardware crashed and they used magnets to clean up. Then instead of sorting it all out they printed some labels.
Not gonna pay for that shit, I gots my own.
Watched it twice, for clarity, because he actually said “a measuring thing” at the end of the video, when he pointed at the lid of assorted shit. Dude. Sell any tools you have, turn in your man card and be done with everything, if you can’t at least identify a short ruler on the lid. Cuck
What a moron! My junk bucket has saved me more than once. The spousal unit razzed me about it until it allowed us to finish installing a hot water tank after store hours, and he got a hot shower that evening.
I’ve spent 60 years accumulating mine. The magic only works if you build it up over time–then you’ll always have exactly one of what you need, especially when you need two.
I probably twenty of those buckets worth of stuff like that only over time i have actually organized it somewhat into bins. No more dumping a can out on the bench to find a certain item 😉
Have
I finally had to “organize” somewhat my plethora of odds-n-sods hardware into the following cans/wooden boxes:
1) Automotive screws (mostly SAE and Metric machine screws} – I actually have TWO, one for small bolts and screws and one for much larger, Grade 5 and Grade 8 nuts/bolts, specialty such as castellated nuts, zerk fittings, cotter keys, etc.)
2) sheet metal screws (SAE and Metric heads!)
3) oddball hardware such as chains, oddball hangers, leftover hardware from various machines, both old and new
Nails – all kinds including specific types including finishing air nailers
Electronics – where do I start? I have 3 ten-pound coffee cans of vacuum tubes, one tub of wall warts, one of power supplies, various LEDs, resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes large and small.and two boxes of wires of all colors and sizes. Switches, some rather exotic. I could go on…
More boxes of electric and electronic stuff that I am stripping. for parts. Electrical wiring parts (light switches, boxes, splices, wire nuts, rolls of 10-3, 12-2, small lengths of 8-3, 14-2 and 14-3. Duplex outlets. Regular and 3-way switches.
Plumbing stuff, both water and DWV , PEX, valves, odd stuff.
Car parts, ;large and small. Leigh has much, MUCH more than I do because I have moved twice in the last 20 years and have gotten rid of a LOT of crap!!
They call me MISTER packrat… Wifey Unit wants to pare all my stuff down further. I probably have to.
that is badass! mine is a cookie tin that came from who knows where, I can’t remember but it’s got washers, screws, springs, tacks, clips, fishing reel pcs, window hardware, grommets, sharp shit, pointy shit, unknown shit, cool shit, 2 of one thing where you need 3 shits, cotter pins, roll pins, safety pins, pads, little gears & bushings & shit that looks like it came out of the altimeter on a 1940s plane (might have?) on and on…
It has saved my ass quite a few times but the coolest thing is you don’t expect it to save your ass all the time, so it just exists, waiting there to serve you year after year
I have *three generations* of this stuff. My dad inherited my grandad’s workshop contents. I inherited my dad’s. I’m now 70 years old. The big problem is not the gallons of screws, fasteners, hinges, whatever. The real big problem is all the tools. I have boxes of wrenches, screwdrivers, sockets, etc. I have about 10 electric hand drills, half of which are “cordless” but I can’t find batteries for them, or if I can, the battery and charger cost more than the drill. But I can’t bring myself to throw them away. My grandfather’s table top scroll saw just gave up the ghost. I think it was built in the late 1920s or early 30s. I have no idea where to find parts for it.
You too?
That little shit. What, does he think dad’s bucket ‘o bolts robbed him of his childhood? The hardware cost nothing to the little squirt. Dad probably disowned the wanker already.
I’mmm… RICH, I’m rich, I’m rich, I’m rich.
Any guy that doesn’t have one of these should probably turn in their man card.
I have an old cookie tin, about 7″ dia. X 2″ deep, with all that stuff.
…Only two inches deep? …Rookie…
With the amount of dust in the bottom of those containers, I’m calling bullshit. At best, those are floor sweepings and a new ‘label’ stuck on as a parody. Nothing on the grip-rite site, so it’s ‘funnin’ around..
I use coffee cans for my “little shitties.” When I need something I dump the can into an overturned trashcan lid to make my Easter egg hunt easier and to keep ambitious desperados from rolling away. After finding what I need, the lid makes it easier to dump everything back into the can. I CAN’T COUNT the number of times those cans have saved me a trip to the hardware store or worse yet, to Home Deport!!!
I actually BUY these cans of stuff at yard sales sometimes. I often get entire cans of random hardware for a quarter! One of those cans is a Chase & Sanborn coffee can that’s old enough to have needed a KEY to originally open! That puts the can’s birth date somewhere in the 50’s or even earlier!
Hell , the coffee can itself is probably worth $10.
I still have several of my old man’s screws, bolts & washers in metal Tetley Tea cans from the 50s.
I have a dozen large pickle jars where I stash my leftovers, the grands call it my kaladeoscope as I will turn the jar to spot something before I dump it and search in earnest. This is man card 101 stuff.
It looks like a truck full of hardware crashed and they used magnets to clean up. Then instead of sorting it all out they printed some labels.
Not gonna pay for that shit, I gots my own.
Watched it twice, for clarity, because he actually said “a measuring thing” at the end of the video, when he pointed at the lid of assorted shit. Dude. Sell any tools you have, turn in your man card and be done with everything, if you can’t at least identify a short ruler on the lid. Cuck
What a moron! My junk bucket has saved me more than once. The spousal unit razzed me about it until it allowed us to finish installing a hot water tank after store hours, and he got a hot shower that evening.
I’ve spent 60 years accumulating mine. The magic only works if you build it up over time–then you’ll always have exactly one of what you need, especially when you need two.
I probably twenty of those buckets worth of stuff like that only over time i have actually organized it somewhat into bins. No more dumping a can out on the bench to find a certain item 😉
Have
I finally had to “organize” somewhat my plethora of odds-n-sods hardware into the following cans/wooden boxes:
1) Automotive screws (mostly SAE and Metric machine screws} – I actually have TWO, one for small bolts and screws and one for much larger, Grade 5 and Grade 8 nuts/bolts, specialty such as castellated nuts, zerk fittings, cotter keys, etc.)
2) sheet metal screws (SAE and Metric heads!)
3) oddball hardware such as chains, oddball hangers, leftover hardware from various machines, both old and new
Nails – all kinds including specific types including finishing air nailers
Electronics – where do I start? I have 3 ten-pound coffee cans of vacuum tubes, one tub of wall warts, one of power supplies, various LEDs, resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes large and small.and two boxes of wires of all colors and sizes. Switches, some rather exotic. I could go on…
More boxes of electric and electronic stuff that I am stripping. for parts. Electrical wiring parts (light switches, boxes, splices, wire nuts, rolls of 10-3, 12-2, small lengths of 8-3, 14-2 and 14-3. Duplex outlets. Regular and 3-way switches.
Plumbing stuff, both water and DWV , PEX, valves, odd stuff.
Car parts, ;large and small. Leigh has much, MUCH more than I do because I have moved twice in the last 20 years and have gotten rid of a LOT of crap!!
They call me MISTER packrat… Wifey Unit wants to pare all my stuff down further. I probably have to.
God help me.