Whereas, in my shop, I have the greatest motorized dust collector: A motorcycle.
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My dad has that bucket for nuts and bolts. I can't imagine the amount of time my granddad and I wasted looking for the one nut, bolt or washer in that bucket that wasn't "too big" or "too small" for a repair job we were doing on a piece of machinery. Would have saved way more time to have sorted and organized that bucket than all the times we went through the bucket sorting it one bolt at a time (yeah, back then I wasn't thinking either -- I guess I just sort of thought that's how everybody did things).
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Mark & Juanita wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
Hey! It IS organized! It's in the bucket!
And if I can't find it in about 10 minutes, I know to run down to the hardware store, and buy exactly what I want. What really frustrates me is KNOWING I have a box of what I'm looking for, and not being able to find it. Likely because I put it away 'somewhere safe'.
Picking through the bucket also seems to offer the opportunity to solve a problem in another way. Sort of a creativity enhancer, if you will.
Patriarch, who belives that there just might be one heck of an estate sale one day...
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LOL... isn't THAT the truth. My SWMBO calls that "constructive procrastination." That is, when a piece appears to be usable in another repair altogether. Working on the mower..heyyy THIS might work on the dryer I was trying to fix...and the original trip to the shed was to repair a screen door.
I have heard this kinda thing happens to some people.
Rob
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sandman wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@nr-tor01.bellnexxia.net:
Some people describe it as lack of focus. Those people could be described as narrow-minded. ;-)
Patriarch
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I can sort of see that. The problem was that when we were picking through the bucket, that windrower, or that combine, or that disc had to be fixed *now*. What often happened was that we would go through the bucket, couldn't find *the* bolt or nut, and granddad still wound up making a trip into town to buy one.